You will often hear the phrase “Intellectual Bankruptcy” coined by those in the know about the Ahmadiyya cult. That is not to say that there aren’t intellectuals in the movement of course. It is a term used to describe the manoeuvres a cult has to make in order to repress the cognitive dissonance that is ever-present. And now, yet another example of a form of intellectual bankruptcy and cowardice has been displayed by the frightened leadership.

For years, many of us in the Ahmadiyya awareness network have been asking the quite legitimate question: “Why don’t the Ahmadis have free speech?” You see, we have forums, like the trend-setting and hugely influential ahmedi.org, once a powerhouse and still a lively and interesting forum, and thecult.info as well as a few others, where Ahmadis have had greater freedom of speech than in their own community! The recent live programme on Iqra TV that featured “Anwar Mirza” was testimony to the openness of the Muslims compared to the closed cult of the Ahmadiyya. MTA could never invite a top Muslim scholar onto their show, they’d lose half of their membership overnight!

Try expressing a displeasing idea in the Ahmadiyya community as a member and you would soon find yourself ostracised, boycotted and expelled; whereas Muslims have given Ahmadis freedom of speech, yet Ahmadis don’t ponder this.

The first example I saw of an on-line community was the Yahoo forum run by irshad.org – reading that forum went a long way towards convincing me that Islam was not the barbaric religion that Ahmadiyya had scared me into believing it was.

So it was with some surprise that I learned today that the Ahmadiyya has opened up a new forum – at forums.alislam.org

(They did have a kind of forum before, but it was quickly closed down.)

Before you all go rushing off there, you should know that I laughed wryly when I learned that membership is by invitation only. Well that rules out debate then. And boy did I laugh when I noticed that they have avoided the subjects of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Ahmadiyya. In fact, so careful are they, that their disclaimer reads: “Views expressed in these forums are not necessarily the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.” -

Ahmadis, when will you learn? The leadership doesn’t want you to know the truth about your founder because you would become disillusioned and leave. They keep changing references, they keep deleting offending segments, anything to try and keep you trapped in their web of lies!

Come to Islam brothers and sisters, join us on the straight path. Leave the cult behind.