Ahmadiyya a "Parallel Society"? What Susanne Schröter Said on WELT (Sep 2026)
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...