Intro
Watching the International Bait, I noticed something bizarre. The Khalifa sits down, and you can clearly see his son, Mirza Waqas Ahmad, sitting behind him without a mask. He sits there for a while, takes off his sunglasses (yes, indoors), the camera cuts away, and when it comes back, the sunglasses are gone, and suddenly he’s wearing a mask.

In the Shorts version you can’t see it because YouTube crops the sides. In the full video it’s visible: https://youtu.be/5W_Jnu-3cpU

The point isn’t whether Mirza Waqas Ahmad wore a mask 30 seconds later. The point is that we’re in 2026 and the Jamaat is still enforcing these bizarre rules around the Khalifa.

Everyone around him has to wear a mask. People handing him things are even wearing gloves. Yet his own son is sitting right behind him without a mask until the camera cuts away. That doesn’t exactly scream “strict health protocol.”

And we’ve seen the same double standard before. When Western guests are around, like at the Peace Symposium, suddenly nobody is wearing masks: not the guests and not the Ahmadis around the Khalifa. So which is it? Are these measures actually necessary, or are they just for show when the audience is primarily Ahmadi? To me, it looks like the rules are for everyone else, while the Khalifa’s family gets a pass. That’s the point of the post.

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Links and Related Essay’s

International Bait 2026: Masks for the Cameras? : r/islam_ahmadiyya

International Bait 2026: Masks for the Cameras?
byu/Ahmadi-in-misery inislam_ahmadiyya

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