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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 11 ] support of the Christians and were opposed to the Promised Messiah as. In those days of great struggle between the Christians against Muslims, many prominent Christian priests were on one side of the battle, and the Promised Messiah as was mounting a valiant attack on Christianity as the Champion of Islam. Even in such crucial times, the Muslim ‘scholars’ opposed Ahmadiyyat and did not lose any opportunity to support the Christian apologetics against him. At the time of his famous debate with Dr. Henry Clarke in Amritsar, the Promised Messiah as brought this fact to the notice of all the Muslims of India through a public announcement. He said: I have received a message from Amritsar that some maulav i s say that if the death or life of Jesus as were to be argued during this debate, they would have cer- tainly joined Dr. Clarke at that time. Therefore, I hereby let the revered Sheikh 4 and his associates know and, in fact, put him on oath to try their mettle on this issue as well. ( Eik Sachch a ’ i ka I z h a r , p. 4, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 6, p. 74) 4. The reference is to the well-known Ahl-e- H ad i th Maulav i Muhammad H usain Bat a lv i.