تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 21) — Page 113
تاریخ احمدیت 113 جلد 21 لیکن یہ حکومت کی محض بہانہ جوئی تھی۔اس پالیسی کا اصل پس منظر یہ تھا کہ عیسائی مشنریوں نے حکومت پر دباؤ ڈالا کہ وہ یہ درخواست مسترد کر دے جیسا کہ پروفیسرمحمود بریلوی اپنی کتاب ”اسلام ان افریقہ میں لکھتے ہیں: "In addition to the orthodox Maliki (Sunni) Muslims, there is another small group in West Africa, who call themselves Muslim- the followers of the Ahmadiyyah (Qadiani)movement, a missonary organisation with its headquarters (previously in Qadian, India,) but now at Rabwah, Pakistan, which penetrated West Africa in the late 1920s۔This movement is rapidly growing, gaining its converts from Christianity and paganism, the rate of growth being demonstrated in Ghana, where in 1948 the figure of its adherents was 22,572, and to-day they may be about 50,000-This well organised missionary movement, possessing zealous and selfless wokers, offers to its African converts good educational facilities up to the secondary school level۔The Ahmadis claim, stimulated by their rapid success, similar growth of their followers throughout West Africa, with the exception of Gambia, where the defeated and horrified Christian missionaries forced the British government to reject the application of an Ahmadi missionary for an entry permit on the officially-stated ridiculous grounds that, there were already enough different religions in Gambia۔9 (ترجمه) قدامت پسند مالکی (سنی) مسلمانوں کے علاوہ مغربی افریقہ میں ایک اور چھوٹا