18:16 05 March 2015

Delegates and guests at Muslim peace conference held at North Herts College, March 1, 2105

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Representatives of North Herts community groups paid tribute to the unstinting support they have received from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association at the organisations annual peace conference on Sunday.

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The AMA established in 1914 and one of the oldest groups of its kind in the country put freedom of speech at the top of the agenda for Sundays session at North Herts Colleges Hitchin centre.

Before a panel made up of national and local representatives of the organisation and dignitaries including Stevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor and vice lord lieutenant of Herts the Rev Teddy Faure Walker fielded questions from the floor, keynote speaker Arshad Ahmedi condemned the actions of extremists who committed outrages in the name of Islam.

Referring to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris and other massacres around the world, he said: The actions of murdering thugs who killed in cold blood are condemned by us, and by all people.

They are cold-hearted murderers pursuing a political agenda.

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Murderers condemned as message of peace is North Herts conferences priority