The British Interests in India and Their Real Guardians — Page 24
[ 24 ] But these opponents appear to lack the intellectual argument and manifest the Catholic mentality of declaring those who disagree with their thinking to be ‘Infidels’ and ‘out of the bounds’ of religion. 8 This is the analysis of a newspaper. It is a Catholic paper, but has said something very true. The writer seems to be saying, ‘O opponents of Ahmad i s! Your condition is like ours. Just as we are short-tempered and narrow-minded and considered our opponents to be non-believers and declared that they were out of the bounds of Christianity, you are doing the same with Ahmad i s. ’ But the fact is that it is the Christian world that has fed these words to the Muslim ulema of today. These are the arguments taught by the Christians. The Collusion between Christian Priests and Muslim Ulema Dr. Hovben’s article, mentioned by this newspaper, makes this point very clear. On the one hand he says that Islam, God forbid, is a dead religion; that Islam was only a religion of the sword; Islam does not possess the sword now and, therefore, Islam is powerless. On the other hand, he raises many objections about Ahmad i s. While declaring the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at to be dangerous, he also insists that this Jam a ‘at cannot be regarded as representative of 8. This citation is translated from an Urdu translation.