Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at and the Palestinian Muslims — Page 9
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 9 ] in reality, all such activity is being perpetrated by the Colonial powers, because during the last Palestinian war in 1948, the Colonial powers approached me to see if I could be an instrument in this matter. In those days, I was the editor of a satirical journal that was critical of the government. At the time, a responsible representative of some foreign govern- ment residing in Baghdad invited me to a meeting. To flatter me, he praised my satirical style and suggested that I target the Q a di ani Community in a hurtful nature, because this Community was outside the pale of Islam. It is interesting that a Colonial power was so concerned with Islam that it summoned an editor in an attempt to encourage him to criticise a community, because it was excluded from Islam. He continues to write: This was in 1948 when part of the Holy Land was cut off and handed over to the Zionist government, and the state of Israel was created. I believe that the mea- sure the diplomat took was in response to the two tracts published by the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at during the year of the partition of Palestine. One of the tracts was entitled The United Nations and the Decision to Divide Palestine , in which the conspiracies of the western Colonial powers and the Zionists, regarding their plans to hand over the Palestinian ports to the Jews, were disclosed. The second tract published was entitled Al-Kufro Millatu ñ W ah idah