The Ahmadis: Islam’s Moonies

Ahmadi Muslims

Jihad Watch : “Ahmadis are the Muslim equivalent of the Moonies,” noted recently one knowledgeable analyst to this author concerning a community often feted by politicians despite their miniscule global presence, as this series previously discussed.

Denounced by the late German scholar of Islam Hiltrud Schröter as a “totalitarian brainwashing cult,” the Ahmadis indeed present many worrisome parallels to other cults, notwithstanding the Ahmadis’ benign public presentation.

Schröter and other German analysts in German-language media have engaged in considerable critical inquiry into the Ahmadis and their behavior in Germany. The German academic Johannes Kandel, long associated with the Social Democratic think tank of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, undertook a 2006 study on behalf of Germany’s main Lutheran church.

The “Ahmadiyya present themselves in public as a peaceful, democratic, dialogue- and reform-oriented, as well as socially engaged group,” he noted. In particular, the “Ahmadiyya have become conspicuous in the public through their demonstrative cleaning actions on New Year’s Day (of streets and places dirtied by ‘Christians’ on New Year’s Eve).”

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