Where Did Jesus Die? — Page xxv
Introduction xxv come in the person of Hazrat Ahmad (1835–1908). It also bore a photograph of what was called ‘The tomb of Jesus’ in the town of Srinagar in Kashmir. A brief message spoke of proof that Jesus did not die on the cross, but travelled to India and died there. A letter to the London Mosque produced a more elab- orate book entitled ‘?’ This book has 128 pages, and is written and published by the Imam of the London Mosque, Maulvi J. D. Shams. This branch of Islam which is responsible for propaganda is the Ahmadiyya Movement, about which an article appeared in the Life of Faith some months ago, from the pen of the Rev. A. R. Pittway, a missionary in Kenya who had met one of its propagandists there. It is a strongly missionary movement, and although it is regarded by some Muslims as unortho- dox, it is sufficiently close to traditional Muhammadanism to be counted as fully representative of the Muhammadan faith. The book is a carefully documented attack upon Christianity and at the end it expands the idea that Jesus went to India and died there. There are, of course, three key points of Christianity to be attacked—the death of Christ, the resurrection, and the ascension—all of which must be proved to be false. For the theory is that Jesus only fainted on the Cross, revived in the tomb, came out and met His disciples, and then tramped away to India, where ultimately He died. It is to our everlasting shame as Christians that our country should now be experiencing a Moslem invasion of this kind. But, British toleration being