A Deplorable Scheme of Falsification and Accusations — Page 16
Against the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama’at and Its Background [ 16 ] Admission of Defeat This is cowardice, which signifies weakness. Thus they have virtually admitted their defeat. No power that has persuasive arguments ever takes up arms and puts legal impediments against the exercise of the freedom of expression. This is against common sense and is, indeed, against their own interests. All their efforts are focused on attacking us and at the same time preventing us from defending ourselves. This portrays an extreme cowardice, an ultimate admission of defeat and the fact that they have no arguments left in their arsenal. In the same vein, on the one hand, they claim that the number of Ahmad i s is insignificant, barely reaching eighty thousand. On the other hand, they raise the specter of Ahmadiyyat as a grave threat to the world of Islam. They also proudly proclaim that they have averted this great peril by confiscating the Ahmadiyyah literature. Therefore, this government writes in the paper that the measures taken by the National Assembly of the previous government was a great feat. In spite of that, they had to dissolve the National Assembly and accuse all its members, with a few rare exceptions, of being wicked and dissolute. Nevertheless, they acknowledged this ‘accomplishment’ of the National Assembly because there exists between them a shared objective and a common mode of thinking. Therefore, they proclaimed that it was an extraordinary