A Deplorable Scheme of Falsification and Accusations — Page 20
Against the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama’at and Its Background [ 20 ] A Great Benefit for the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ’at The government of Pakistan published literature about the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and circulated it over the world. The main advantage to us from this is now the whole world has started to take note of us. Many did not know that an Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at even existed. Now that this information has reached them, the world media has taken note of it. The world is now at least twenty times better informed about the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at than it was before the promulgation of this ordinance. The vast majority in the United States and Britain was unaware of us. We could not have reached the millions through a few missions in those countries. Now that the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at is going through hardship and persecution in the current opposition, it has created wide sympathy for us. The world has started taking interest in us. People have started reading our literature and have started inquiring about us. As if it was not enough, the unjust and unfair literature by the government of Pakistan has done the rest. The style of that literature is such that sensible people immediately realise that there is something odd about the entire business. What intrigues them is the claim that the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at that allegedly numbers only seventy thousand— notwithstanding its extensive efforts over a hundred years—is a threat to the powerful Pakistani government and a menace to the entire Muslim world. This claim is so unreasonable that it cannot be accepted by anyone. Even