“In the West they present themselves as women-friendly and in their own land as misogynist,” observed Sabatina James, an Austrian-Pakistani Muslim convert to Catholicism, about the Ahmadis in a 2013 online video. Her video indicates just how unreformed Ahmadi views about sexuality and gender equality can be for this previously examined small, yet often influential, […]
The Ahmadis: Islam’s Moonies
“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 minuscule 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 […]