File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎369v] (747/834)

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former, has for some years engaged in the worldwide missionary
effort for which this sect is now best known. Having collected
a large sum of money from his adherents, he proceeded to
England, and, with others, founded the. Mosque at Woking,
and the several magazines and institutions which are run in
connection with it. As there is no other outstanding Islamio
organization in Europe, the Ahmadi party there is apt to attract
all shades of Mohammedan travellers, and has gained a degree of
influence which may now need a certain amount of scrutiny.
“A notable point about the Ahmadi programme is the care
with which their missionaries are selected and the preparations
which are made to render their efforts successful. No expense
is spared in finding men of modern European education, and
training them in Oriental languages in order to fit them to hold
their own in both European and Oriental countries.
“ The groups surrounding the Mosque at Woking contain a
Certain number of persons who are not without suspicion of pro-
Turkish leanings. Khwaja Kamal ud Din has been successful
in converting to his particular shade of Islam a number of
English people, most of whom are pro-Turkish cranks. The
London agent of the sect is Mufti Mohammed Sadiq, 4, Star Street,
Edgeware Road.
“ Being the only organized group of Mohammedans in
England they form a rallying ground for nearly all Mohammedan
visitors to England, and are connected with various circles
and societies which dabble in £ Near-Eastern’ politics.
“ The treatment of the sect by the Government is a matter
of delicacy, as the sect in India is given to the expression of ultra-
loyal sentiments. The activities of its members abroad, however,
afford some reason to think that its tendency is in the direction
of anti-European feeling, while the wide scope and rapidity of
its development suggest that the purely religious precepts by
which it is at present fostered may in time give way to political
activities.
“ In whatever way it may for the moment be regarded, it
is, without doubt, a movement which merits much closer attention
than it has hitherto received from the authorities of those countries
where the population is largely Mohammedan. There are in
unknown—in Egypt.
££ The Ahmadis have lately produced a de luxe edition of a
translation into English of the Koran, with an elaborate com
mentary, which interprets it on the lines of modern thought.
The Ahmadis make no secret of their activities, and push
their propaganda by all the modern methods of advertisement.”
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