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Ahmadiyya a "Parallel Society"? What Susanne Schröter Said on WELT In September 2026, the German news channel WELT aired an episode of its debate show Meinungsfreiheit ("Freedom of Speech"). Watch the full episode here . Host Nena Brockhaus sat down with three guests: Susanne Schröter , professor, ethnologist and head of the Frankfurt Research Center for Global Islam  (closed in Sep 2025) Bernd Siggelkow , founder of the Christian children's charity Die Arche Maulvi Sharjil Khalid (also spelled Scharjil Khalid), a Qadiani-Ahmadi imam. Ahmadiyyafactcheck blog wrote about it and Zaitoon FM covered this episode too . I watched the whole thing and went through the German transcript line by line, so here is what was actually said. How the debate started Each guest brings one thesis. The first part was about German politics: the CDU , Friedrich Merz and the AfD. Then Khalid used his turn to argue that "Islamism" is the wrong word. In his view we sho...

OLD Messiah Gone, New in Town? A man from Rabwah is reportedly claiming that he is the true Promised Messiah—and that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was mistaken.   The claim is striking enough on its own. But what makes it particularly significant is the theological question it raises for the Ahmadiyya community: if God continues to communicate with His chosen servants, how does the community determine whether a new claimant is genuine or false? The man, identified as Inam-ul-Hai , presents himself as the true Promised Messiah. In a video of approximately 30 minutes, he explains his claims and challenges the religious position established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. We are publishing his claims here for documentation and discussion. The accompanying photograph is also noteworthy because the claimant has written his own claim on the photograph. The photograph above is presented as documentary material. The written statement on it is attributed to the claimant himself. The Claim: “I Am t...

One Man, Many Faces? The Ahmadiyya Hulia Argument and the Problem of Photographic Evidence Introduction Ahmadiyya literature often argues from physical descriptions ( hulia ) in the hadith corpus. The reasoning runs as follows. The Prophet ﷺ described the Messiah of the Children of Israel one way and the Messiah who appears against the Dajjal another way. Since the descriptions differ, they must refer to two different individuals. The Israelite Jesus is therefore dead, and the promised Messiah of the Ummah is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, whose appearance is said to match the second description. This article examines that inference rather than the hadith texts alone. The central question is whether a difference in description proves a difference in person. If it does not, the argument fails whatever else one concludes about the hadith. I will look at the sources, how the classical commentators handled them, what Ahmadiyya literature itself says about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's physic...

Inside Tilford's "Islamabad" — Why a Private UK Compound Is Suddenly All Over Social Media For most of the world, Tilford is a quiet village in Surrey, England. But since 1984, a section of it has had a second name that most of its neighbours never knew about: Islamabad . It's the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Jamat — complete with its own internal street names, a temples, residential housing, and administrative offices, all inside a gated compound of roughly 10.4 hectares. This month, that quiet arrangement became a very public one, after british accounts on X (formerly Twitter) began circulating footage and claims about the site, and the story spread well beyond the platform. What "Islamabad" Actually Is The compound isn't a separate legal town — it's private property that the Jamat Ahmadiyya has developed and named internally. According to Wikipedia's entry on Islamabad, Tilford , the site includes the Jamat's Fazl Mos...

Masked Men Attack an Ahmadi Woman in Rabwah — Who Gave the Order? Rabwah is presented to the outside world as the spiritual heart of the Ahmadiyya Jamat — a place of mosques, missionary training, and the Jamat's central offices. But a video that surfaced this week shows a different side of it: the aftermath of a broad day attack on a woman's home, carried out by a group of masked men. According to this week's Zaitoon Khabar Nama , which says it holds documentary proof and the names of everyone involved, the attack wasn't a random act of crime — it was ordered by a local Murabb, Asif Adeem.  2nd Clip 3rd Clip     What the video shows The footage shows a home in disarray — furniture broken, belongings scattered — consistent with a forced entry rather than a burglary. The woman who recorded it (victim's sister)  says the men who broke in were masked, they looted her sister's Gold Belongings and that this was not the first time she had been targeted: AK Sheikh ...

A video circulating on social media shows a confrontation at what appears to be a public dawah (Islamic outreach) event in the UK, where an Ahmadi @SpreadHaqq  can be seen holding a white board with provocative text:  Sunnis Don't Believe Muhammad PBUH is the Last Prophet Footage shows the man engaged in a heated exchange, pointing fingers and arguing with members of a group conducting Dawah work nearby. The confrontation escalates in a subsequent clip, where the man is seen being struck and knocked to the ground by several individuals. Claims are circulating that he kicked someone and then all this started A separate clip from the same incident shows a physical altercation between the man and another individual, who can be heard repeatedly asking not to be filmed . In the footage, the man's camera is knocked from his hand. In a this same clip, another man takes the sign from him and walks toward a nearby vehicle; the @SpreadHaq guy is seen following and kicking that man w...

On September 18, 2026, the Ahmadiyya Jamat held its Jalsa Salana in Kababir, Haifa — and Israeli President Isaac Herzog was among the guests, greeted warmly on stage alongside Indian Ambassador J.P. Singh. The reception was not a cold, formal handshake. Jamat officials embraced the president, smiling, and by most accounts the mood was celebratory. That's the part that's drawing criticism: this same period has seen one of the worst humanitarian tolls of the Gaza war, and no public objection, acknowledgment, or even a passing word about Gaza was raised on that stage. A Complicated Local Story It's worth being precise about who was actually on stage. The Kababir Ahmadi community in Haifa is not simply "Israeli" in a generic sense — it includes Palestinian converts to Ahmadiyya, some of whom were reportedly disowned by their own families in the West Bank after converting. That context cuts against a simple "Ahmadis chose Israel over Palestine" narrative. But...

At this year's Jalsa Salana , an elderly Ahmadi stood up in front of the crowd and said it plainly: Khalifa Masroor is not Rab — but he is " Rab-numa ." God-manifest. God-like. No hadith was cited. No Quranic verse was offered. Just a declaration, delivered with total confidence, to an audience that received it without objection. Watch him say it yourself: That absence of pushback is the actual story here. In Ahmadiyya Jamat 's own framing, the community represents the "real Islam" — the corrective to what it calls the grave-worship and shirk of mainstream Muslims.  Yet the Quran states, in verse 42:11 (Ash-Shura), " Laysa kamislihi shay'un " — there is nothing whatsoever like Him.  فَاطِرُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا وَمِنَ ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ أَزْوَٰجًا ۖ يَذْرَؤُكُمْ فِيهِ ۚ لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِۦ شَىْءٌ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْبَصِيرُ ١١ ˹He is˺ the Originator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for ...