{"id":706741,"date":"2026-07-23T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:25:11","slug":"south-prepares-for-britains-largest-muslim-festival-in-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706741\/","title":{"rendered":"South prepares for Britain&#8217;s largest Muslim festival in Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The keynote speaker at the convention is the global leader and caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the weekend, he said: &#8220;The Jalsa Salana is a magnificent example of unity, in which people from every corner of the world, including many non-Muslims, come together in peace and harmony, not only to worship God, but also to inspire one another to show compassion, love and respect for all people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A YouGov poll commissioned by the Ahmadiyya community suggests that more than three quarters of British people believe the country is more divided now, than it was five years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The polling also found that 56% of Britons believe the positive contributions of British Muslims &#8220;are not widely known or recognised&#8221; by wider British society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results were collated by YouGov from more than 2,000 UK adults in July 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The keynote speaker at the convention is the global leader and caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}