Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine — Page 14
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine [ 14 ] ruling Iran. He purports to say that: ‘Neither do they accept my government nor of any other country, so how can I be pleased?’ And then he [Maud u d i ] offers another excuse—and how un-Islamic of an excuse it is—he says: Being a Muslim I do not believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. ( Ibid. ) Maul a n a does not believe in this definition of democracy that is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. So now he does not like any Islamic countries where there are democratic governments either. This is the kind of logic they have established. Then in what condition will those poor people be who have established democratic governments in their countries? One might think that per- haps Maul a n a meant that since the democratic govern- ments of Muslim countries are not better than the democratic governments of non-Muslim countries, he does not like them. Perhaps his logic is that since ‘the others’ (meaning infidels according to Maul a n a ) are inferior to Muslims but their democratic governments are superior to those of Muslim democratic governments, that he only dis- likes the inferiority of the Islamic democratic governments. This is just a benefit of doubt that could be given to the Maul a n a Sahib’s statement but it is immediately removed by his following writings in which he passes this edict on both the Muslim and non-Muslim governments: