The British Interests in India and Their Real Guardians — Page 21
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 21 ] who were fighting against Islam, both in the past as well as now. Let us review the words of Padre Kramer. He writes: …Generally speaking, Islam in India is marked by a conservative and prudent spirit, having predilection of steering the middle course… ( Islam in India , The Moslem World, April 1931, p. 165) The Ahmadiyya are an interesting exception to the generally prevailing communal spirit of Islam. They concentrate on religious propaganda and abstain from all politics, preaching loyalty to British and all foreign rulers, because the only thing that interests them is whether and in how far certain situ- ations enable them to convey the message. They are not concerned with Islam as a religious and political body, but with the spreading of the universal truth. In this respect they are a very remarkable group in mod- ern Islam, the only group that has purely missionary aims. ( Ibid. , 170) These are the observations of independent outside think- ers—those who have a keen awareness of the on-going reli- gious wars, who know about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at and also its opponents. They are also well informed that our opponents are in the lead of small divisive groups—totally oblivious to the prevalent conditions of the world, sitting in darkness, steeped in ill-thinking, with no sense of what is happening in the world. These opponents are too busy concocting allegations that the Ahmadiyya