Intro
The very first ‘White convert” to Ahmadiyya was Alexander Russell Webb, who converted to Ahmadiyya in roughly 1889 (per his own admission) and quit by 1891 and refused to meet MGA in India in 1892. In the 1890’s, one of Webb’s friends and interlocutor was Abdullah Quilliam (who seems to have been a Lahori-Ahmadi after 1914). Other early converts were Charles Sievwright, Anthony George Baker, F.L. Andersen and Professor Clement Lindley Wragge (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Technically, out of these few names, only Charles Sievwright was the most vocal. A few were totally faked, like Baker, Andersen, and Wragge.
In 1924, Charles Sievwright was mentioned by John Bertrum Clarke (an occultist) and rapist/murderer (In The Los Angeles Evening Post-Record of 18 Jul 1924, Fri ·Page 1), as he responds to the allegations against him and in his own defense. He claims that he knows a Secret Ahmadi (described as a Muhammadan) named Mr. Sievewright who works at a creamery in the L.A. area. However, Sievewright also represents “The Moslem Sunrise” magazine and has inside connections with Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (written as Dr. Sadiq) and can get him Indian girls with dark eyes (+jewels and servants) and a harem of women in India. Thus, why would he be raping/killing/marrying women in the US.
During WW-1 (1914-1919), Mufti Muhammad Sadiq kept lying about converts. The ROR of June-1917 reports that the Ahmadiyya Movement has secured a location for its propaganda, it is at No. 4, Star Street, Edgware Road, London, W.2. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq led the Eid prayer. This is very close to Hyde Park. Sayyal was mentioned as the pioneer Ahmadiyya missionary. It also reports that Mufti Muhammad Sadiq has just arrived in the UK and has converted 6 people to Ahmadiyya, of which 2 of their names are Mr. Sparrow and Mr. Bird, this is in reference to MGA’s revelation that people in the UK will accept Ahmadiyya like birds [Izala-e-Auham, pp. 515–516, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 3, p. 377]. In 1919, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq had secret sex with his house maid Ethel Bassett, then fled the country and never returned. Khalid Sheldrake got published in the ROR of 1912 and allegedly converted to Ahmadiyya in 1921 (See the Al Fazl, of 28 March 1921 and Sir TW Arnold, who is the author of the famous book, The Preaching of Islam). Then, he allegedly broke away from Ahmadiyya in 1930 and created the WIA. A few years later, he became an open political agent of the British in Western China with the Ughurs Muslim.
In America, in the 1920’s, Ella May Garber was another fake convert (also known as Mrs EM Garber, or Siddiqatun Nisa Rahatullah)(She translated a letter for the Mufti in the July-1921 edition of the Moslem Sunrise, see page 7). She is mentioned again in the Moslem Sunrise of Oct-1921, she is alleged to be giving lectures in NY. She totally disappeared soon thereafter. J.L. Mott also allegedly converted in this era and was New Orleans, he disappeared after 1927.
In 1923, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq 2nd or 3rd wife was in the USA, Edith Hoffman, whom he left and fled to India after arrest warrants were issued, since Edith was already married to another man. This was what forced him to flee America, in Sep-1923, he returned to Qadian.
In 1924, Charles Sievwright is mentioned by John Bertrum Clarke (an occultist) and rapist/murderer (In The Los Angeles Evening Post-Record of 18 Jul 1924, Fri ·Page 1), as he responds to the allegations against him and in his own defense. He claims that he knows a Secret Ahmadi (described as a Muhammadan) named Mr. Sievewright who works at a creamery in the L.A. area. However, Sievewright also represents “The Moslem Sunrise” magazine and has inside connections with Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (written as Dr. Sadiq) and can get him Indian girls with dark eyes (+jewels and servants) and a harem of women in India. Thus, why would he be raping/killing/marrying women in the USA?
In 1926, Mary Caroline Holmes wrote in the Muslim World about the failures of Ahmadiyya in America. Mary Caroline Holmes alleges that only negroes have converted to Ahmadiyya, 900 of them and that the newspaper “The Moslem Sunrise” has ceased to exist. She says that Mohammad Yusuf Khan is working as the “Missionary-in-Charge”. She claims that a few negroes are converting to Islam as a result of their persecution by whites in America. Mary Caroline Holmes mentions the famous “Highland Park Mosque” and how Mufti Muhammad Sadiq was the reason why it failed, since he poisoned the Muslims of Highland Park and Detroit with Qadiani beliefs, which were the polar opposite of Islam. She mentions how Mufti Muhammad Sadiq was run out of Highland Park and how he moved back to Chicago and had lots of money and bought a house which he made into “Al-Masjid”. She curiously mentions how the adhan is not recited by a man, the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s in 1926 were using a phonograph for the adhan.
In 1930, Mr. Omar Cleveland is converted to Ahmadiyya via Sufi Bengalee. He is a white man and never gave a photo, he disappeared after 1944. In the Moslem Sunrise of Dec-1930 (page 23), the famous Achmed Abdullah is mentioned as a contributor, however not as an Ahmadi. Mrs. Augusta Atkins is another, she was in the USA, allegedly from California. She was mentioned as a donor for the Moslem Sunrise, in the Moslem Sunrise of Oct-1931/Jan-1932, the Moslem Sunrise of Apr-July-1932 and the Moslem Sunrise of Apr/July-1933 (published in Oct-1933). She never appeared in any Ahmadiyya history thereafter. Even Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali had never met her and only posted her photo. Interestingly, Hoffert (Andrew T. Hoffert, “The Moslem Movement in America,” The Moslem World, 20 (1930): 309) tells us that Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman came to the USA to specifically work with the whites and get them to convert to Ahmadiyya. Hoffert claims that there was only 12 white Ahmadi’s in Chicago and 80-90 across the USA (all lies). Hoffert also mentions Mr. G.A. Zandra in Hollywood, California. Mr. Omar Cleveland is another, he disappeared after 1944, he seems to have worked out of Chicago and closely with Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali at the famous Chicago Temple/Mosque on Wabash Ave.
In the 1930’s, the Lahori-Ahmadi’s claim to have converted (by Maulvi Sadr ud Din) Austrian Baron Umar Ehrenfels to their version of Ahmadiyya, he hung out with them in Germany at their famous Wilmersdorfer Mosque aka The Berlin Mosque. He seems to have became a Sufi Muslim soon thereafter, nevertheless, he was friendly with Lahori-Ahmadi’s his whole life. In 1946, the Lahori-Ahmadi’s helped his wife get a visa. He is also mentioned in “Islam in Interwar Europe” by Clayer and Germain, it is also on the Ahmadiyyafactcheckblog). Clayer and Germain also explained how he was fast friends with a Lahori-Ahmadi imam of the Berlin Lahori-Ahmadi Mosque named Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah (also called Professor S.M. Abdullah) in the 1930’s. Another convert is Hugo Marcus.
Also in the 1925-1935 era, Miss Budd from Holland converted to Ahmadiyya, (her name appears in the ROR of June and Sep-1925) in the June edition they claim that she is a convert to Ahmadiyya and was given the Muslim name Hidayt. By Nov-1925, her essay’s begin to appear and more so in the March-1926, April, June and August 1926. In 1929, it seems that she showed up at Colombo, Sri Lanka and was brought to Qadian by Mufti Muhammad Sadiq via a special mission. Her name was changed to Hidayt Budd. She was most likely a prostitute that was bought and shared with the Khalifa at Qadian. Hafiz Qudratullah (1917-1994) was a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Movement and he explains how he saw her at Qadian in his youth. Hafiz Qudratullah (1917-1994 remembers seeing Hidayt Budd at Mufti Muhammad Sadiq’s house in Qadian (most likely in the 1920’s and 30’s). The english ROR posted her picture in the May-1929 edition of the ROR, she seems to have been single at the time. In the August-1929 edition of the ROR, it is explained how Hidayt Budd arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka on May 10th, 1929. Ahmadiyya sources tell how she was part of the Ceylon Ahmadiyya Association and gave speeches and etc. However, they don’t tell us how she got to Sri Lanka. There seems to be a photo of her in the famous “Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around the World”. In the September-1929 edition of the ROR, there is a letter of welcome from the local Lajna of Qadian. They appreciate her as the first Dutch person to join Ahmadiyya. In fact, it was Mufti Muhammad Sadiq who was sent by the Khalifa to pick her up from Colombo, Sri Lanka (see her letter published in the ROR of September-1929), they must have had some type of connection, he married her soon thereafter. She also reports that some of the Indonesian students at the Ahmadiyya Madrassa had written in Dutch on the wall so as to get her attention (men in indonesia spoke Dutch in those days). In the July-1930 edition, her name was changed to Mrs. Hidayt Sadiq, which proves her marriage to Mufti Muhammad Sadiq. An essay in the same ROR is ascribed to her, however, it was most likely written by Mufti Muhammad Sadiq and ascribed to her. She goes on to complain about the heat in India and decline of the use of Burqa. She has an essay in the ROR of Dec-1932 entitled, “Islam in the West”. Her name is written as Mrs. Hidayt Budd Sadiq of Amsterdam (Holland), she had already married Mufti Muhammad Sadiq. She also has an essay in the Moslem Sunrise of Oct-1932/Jan-1933 as Mrs. Hidayat Sadiq, entitled, “Short Sketches from Qadian”. She might have been there in 1934 when Miss Rufo was in Qadian, and when the Khalifa took lots of women down to river Beas and touched them sexually in the open river area. She disappears in Ahmadiyya literature after 1933.
In the 1940’s. Bashir Ahmad Orchard converted to Ahmadiyya and became a Maulvi and thus became the first ever English-Ahmadi-missionary. His brother was a Roman Catholic priest. But to the astonishment of his fellow officers, he began to take instruction in Ahmadiyya. For Bashir Orchard, after the war, there were no prospects, things were bad and rationing of the basic food, Britain was devastated by the German bombing and overall war effort, there was rubble everywhere, things were not looking good for him. Joining Ahmadiyya was a good situation, where he got a super-young desi- woman, employment and comfy life. He was sent off as a missionary by the 2nd Khalifa (he worked mostly out of the carribbean), however, he didn’t pass Jamia or any other Islamic school, the Khalifa waived all of that and made Bashir Ahmad Orchard a Murrabi nevertheless. He was given an important young Ahmadi woman, in fact, Orchard became a brother-in-law of the Khalifa since he married the only sibling of the Khalifa’s first wife. Abdus-Shakoor Kunze is another, who became the first German-Ahmadi Imam, he was previously a Nazi tank captain in the late 1940’s and early 1950‘s. Whites would remain only a small percentage of the us community even after 1955 when the white German convert, Abdul Shakoor Kunze, was made the official missionary for the Chicago branch (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975).
In 1943, a white woman with the Islam name of Nadirah Usman began working on behalf of the Lahori-Ahmadi’s in NY, USA (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). In April of 1947, Via the Lahori-Ahmadi newspaper, “The Light” (See page 2), (Mrs.) Nadira Usman, has an essay entitled, “The ‘Light’ in New York,”.
Born in Union County, New Jersey in 1895, Nadirah embraced Islam in 1926, apparently through the influence of her one-time husband, an Egyptian of a mixed Arab and Turkish background.8 Nadirah—who saw her choosing Islam as “a continuation and logical development” of the beliefs of her English, French, German, and Dutch ancestors—was proud to affiliate with different races through a shared belief. She must have been elated, then, to discover the emphasis on unity and equality prevalent in Ahmadi literature, which she had acquired by 1931 while living in Turkey. Armed with a strong faith in the truth of Islam, even after divorcing her husband, Nadirah was committed to promoting her religion, and in 1939 and 1940 had several essays published in Woking’s Lahori-influenced Islamic Review magazine. (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Interestingly, Nadirah’s November 1943 meeting was not the first time a ‘Webb Memorial’ project was being discussed in the network of white Muslims in wartime America.
Nadira also seems to have written letters to Wali Akram in 1943. She is mentioned 39 times in Bowen.
In April of 1947, Via the Lahori-Ahmadi newspaper, “The Light” (See page 2), (Mrs.) Nadira Usman, “The ‘Light’ in New York,”, Bowen infers that she is a white woman, (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Bowen calls her Lahori Nadira, in the Light, she seems to indicate that her child is half Egyptian.
In the 1950’s and 60’s in London, John Webster is another fake convert that they were presenting. Bowen mentions the conversion of a Jewish woman, who took the name Nusrat Bashir and had married a black man who got her to convert to Ahmadiyya (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). In 1957-1963, According to the Bay Area’s famous Sufi, Samuel Lewis, DiCaprio’s Center was primarily made up of converts who rejected both William Lutz and the Ahmadis, although by 1964, a Lahori missionary named Muhammad Abdullah had become the group’s imam (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975).
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