AKIPRESS.COM - A campaign to recognise the people from different faiths and ethnic backgrounds who fought for Britain in the first world war, including 400,000 Muslim soldiers, has been launched ahead of the armistice centenary, Guardian reports.
Politicians from all parties, faith leaders, former military chiefs and charities are supporting Remember Together, an initiative to highlight the often forgotten service and contribution of Muslims and other faiths.
Imams in mosques across the country will give remembrance-themed services at Friday prayers.
The campaign highlights the fact that the backgrounds of the soldiers who fought for Britain in the first world war had much in common with those of Britain in 2018.
The campaign was launched in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, signed among others by the former chief of the defence staff, Gen Lord Richards; the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown; the transport minister Nusrat Ghani and the Labour MP Dan Jarvis.