Mosques back first national appeal

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 15 November 2007

UK mosques hope to raise £50,000 for BBC Children in Need's 2007 fundraiser, the first time that they have got together to raise money for a national charitable appeal.

Most of the UK’s 1,300 mosques, attended by about 300,000 people each week, will be raising money at Friday prayers this week for the appeal in a move aimed to engage Muslims with mainstream concerns and show that mosques are not terrorist cells. Fuad Nahdi, senior fellow at Imam training...

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