A recent news item:

The Ahmadiyya is a minority peace-loving Muslim group that rejects Sharia law — which places women in subservient roles — and has been persecuted in some countries. (http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1693510)

Ahmadi women cannot become Ameer (national head) or President (local head) or Khalifa (international head) of the Ahmadiyya.

Ahmadi women cannot become Murabbi (spiritual adviser) or hold any other religious rank within the Ahmadiyya.

Wearing the Indian-style burqa is a tradition that the Ahmadiyya have carried to all parts of the world.  Every one of their leaders, including the current one, has insisted on women wearing it.  When President Sarkozy of France recently denounced the burqa as a tool of oppression, the Ahmadiyya were up in arms.

Before the Ahmadiyya start counting the professions of Ahmadi ladies, a simple question: which of your Khalifas’ wives or close female relatives has been the role model of burqa-less successful Islamic lady? None.  So? Hasn’t each and every one been burqa-ed and niqab-ed?  Is it not a sign of utter humiliation for them if they are ever caught without the black covering from head to toe?  Yes/No will suffice.

Yes, Ahmadi women have their own association which is of little or no consequence apart from fundraising for mosques or bake sales, and they have their own section in the Ahmadiyya national annual gatherings.  But where is the substance?  The Christian have had nuns for centuries, and Ahmadis stand just ahead of the Taliban, Saudi salafis and ultra-Orthodox Jews when it comes to women’s subservient role — and much behind the rest of the Muslims.  How many women have attended the Ahmadiyya Jamia (seminary) recently?  Or why has there not been a seminary dedicated for them?  Why can’t the National Secretary for Matchmaking (yes, there is such a role!) be a woman?

I will not even go into how your founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, defined the role of women, just out of consideration that he lived a century ago.  Or the serial marriages of your ‘Reformer’, his son.

And meanwhile, they are the ‘progressive’ anti-Sharia (their words) Muslims.  The only conclusion, the hallmark of the Ahmadiyya, right from their founder onwards: they are consistently confused — in a fantasy world where words have little meaning.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad would have made modern economists proud with his skill at the art of prophecy.  A prickly fellow who had just discovered the printing press, he started his career off by predicting the death of the father of a girl he wanted to marry, but no one else shared that desire.  Included in that compound death prediction was the death of the girl’s betrothed if he dared to marry her, and that his ‘heavenly bride’ would be his in the end.  So, the elderly father died, the girl got married to Sultan Beg, who would just not die — he even served in World War I (6 years after MGA’s death), and came back in one piece.

Hit and miss!

Then, he set upon a Christian priest by the name of Atham, predicting his death within a certain number of months and Atham lived.  Another victim, a Hindu pandit, Lekh Ram, was also on the receiving end of these prophecies, having been given a lifespan of 6 years, and the portly pandit had the misfortune of being stabbed and murdered within that time period.

Hit and miss!

The British government had had enough, and Hindu-Muslim and Hindu-Christian relations in the Amritsar area of Punjab were being affected.  They brough MGA and Maulvi Batalvi, MGA’s erstwhile confidant and good friend and subsequent nemesis, into a court and asked them to sign a declaration stopping this killing prophecy nonsense.

Our Mirza was deeply saddened and he tried his best to obey the law, but this death prediction brought in a lot of followers from the superstitious corners of Punjab and had an eerie effect on the targets (hmmm . . . death threats are considered criminal for a reason).  So, he outsourced his death-wishes overseas.  At that time, outsourcing was inverted, East-to-West, and he had the good fortune to have a young man by the name of Muhammad Ali, and this chap wrote brilliant English.  MGA was so fond of this lad that he twice advertised for a suitable girl for his English-writing secretary – something he never ever did for anyone else.

So, our Mirza and Muhammad Ali scoured the papers for mention of foreign death-wish victims, and found two: John Alexander Dowie in the U.S.A.; and John Hugh Smyth-Pigott of the U.K.  Both of them were a bit eccentric, with multiple confusing claims, and some claim on Divinity itself — in a nutshell, similar to Mirza Ahmad.

This was late 1902.  Dowie was asked to respond to a challenge with detailed conditions within 7 months, which he did not.  Smyth-Pigott was told he would die within Mirza’s lifetime – period!  No conditions, nothing – rather unusual for a professional hedging prophecier – and it was even signed ‘THE PROPHET’.  Dowie died in 1907, Mirza in 1908 and Smyth-Pigott in 1927.  Very few of Mirza’s followers have heard of Smyth-Pigott, and the original publication has never been reprinted, nor even acknowledged.  After 107 years, you can view it here, thanks to the Internet.

Hit and miss!

A person who once joined the Ahmadiyya visited their HQ in Pakistan and commented: The people I met were either rascals or fools.  This is a classic cult scenario: the few rascals control the thought processes of the brainwashed fools.  Let us look at a recent example.

Perspective on Oppression

The Qadiani Ahmadiyya routinely persecute and oppress those that even raise a question about the leadership or their convoluted utterings and reasonings, all the while complaining about being ‘persecuted’.  This oppression includes total social boycott (virtually a solitary confinement sentence for followers who are continually discouraged from all outside social links) and threats of violence.

Malik Safiullah is a rabid Qadiani who maintains a mailing list.  Two of his mailings prove he is a ‘rascal’ (as defined above).  Here is his take on two of the most vicious cases of oppression: (1) the murder of Fakhruddin Multani on the instigation of Mirza Mahmud, and (2) the boycott and expulsion of Abdul Mannan Omar from Rabwah at the hands of Mirza Mahmud and his son Mirza Nasir.

The mere translation will show the deep and vicious roots of this cultish thought control process:

Prophecy about Mirza Mahmud being ‘kind of heart’

“Fakhruddin Multani was the founder of a conspiracy (fitna) and he uttered abuse from his tongue and his pen, and questioned the character (calumny) of Mirza Mahmud and his family.  But, after he was murdered, his wife requested Mirza Mahmud for financial assistance due to her straitened circumstances and destitution.  Despite the fact that the conspiracy was still going on, the embodiment of kindness (Mirza Mahmud) arranged for food supplies for them.

Also, Mirza Mahmud (MM) had announced that he would not be able to perform the marriage ceremony of anyone other than his family and life devotees.  But when Fakhruddin Multani’s son said that unless MM performed the nikah of his sister, no Ahmadi would be willing to marry her, he (MM) accepted the request and performed the nikah of the daughter of Fakhruddin Multani.

Special Favour to the Family of Abdul Mannan Omar

This has been formatted like a narration from the ‘rascal’ himself – somewhat like the Seeratul Mahdi pseudo-narrations:

“A special favour by Mirza Nasir to the family of Abdul Mannan Omar: Bibi Amtul Rahman (deceased) was like a sister to my mother and considered my mother like an elders sister.  Once, a Rabwah woman met Bibi in a wedding and Bibi asked this woman to convey a special message to her elder sister.  The message was: ‘Recently, I was very worried about a match for my daughter as I did not want her to be married among non-Ahmadis (Muslims) nor among Paighamis (Lahori Ahmadis).  Allah had mercy on us and Mirza Nasir, out of his great favour and kindness, arranged a match for her with the son of Malik Ghulam Fareed.  With the grace of God, she is married now.  Mirza Nasir has bestowed a special favour on us.  Please convey this message to my elder sister.’  My mother told this story to me many times, wsalam, Malik Safiullah Khan, Toronto, Canada.”

The unseasoned reader may not see the ominous message and threat:  These two cases have been discussed on forums recently.  The subliminal message is: “don’t even think about leaving – you will have to come begging – and your children will not get married.”  Am I stretching it a bit? Well, these are the two top delaying reasons given by Ahmadis who are thinking about leaving the cult!