Justice and kindness
Jeff Beatty reports on a stimulating session at a Meeting of Friends in Wales that reflected on the background and experience of Muslims in Britain
Friends met at The Pales, originally a burial ground for Friends in the seventeenth century, since they could not be buried in churchyards.
Today there is a Meeting house there (built in 1717) and a cottage with grounds, as well as the burial ground, which carries the footprints of Quaker persecution in the seventeenth century and beyond. It was therefore fitting that the speaker in the afternoon addressed the topic of Muslims in Britain, with persecution of minorities the developing theme.
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