About 4,000 Ahmadiyya Muslims gathered at Australia's largest mosque for their 38th annual convention in October 2026, raising the Australian flag and chanting Long live Australia under banners reading Love for all, hatred for none.
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What is happening
About 4,000 people, including guests from 14 countries, gathered at the Baitul Huda Mosque in Western Sydney in October 2026 for the 38th annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Australia. The Baitul Huda Mosque is the country's largest mosque. The convention opened with prayers, sermons, and dialogue, and with a flag-raising ceremony at which the Australian flag was hoisted alongside the Ahmadiyya flag.
Where the impact lands
The gathering made civic loyalty a public act of worship. Adherents chanted Australia zindabad, long live Australia, and the banners carried the community's motto, Love for all, hatred for none, together with declarations of loyalty to Australia. For a community whose members are persecuted as non-Muslims in some countries, the Sydney convention presented the opposite arrangement: a mosque that celebrates the country that hosts it, in the open, with its neighbours invited.
What to watch
The convention is an annual fixture, and its message is aimed at two audiences at once: Australians who may know Islam only through headlines, and Ahmadi Muslims deciding what their faith asks of them as citizens. This post records the convention as The Muslim Times reported it in October 2026; the source link on this page leads to the report.
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