Germany Grants Asylum to AROPL in Historic Case Testing Religious Freedoms Law

A post on the Facebook page of Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq praised a decision taken by the German government to grant asylum to a member of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light on the 24th of January 2026. This historic decision shows that the German authorities recognise the legitimacy of this religion and ergo its leader Aba Al-Sadiq. 

With this decision, Germany becomes the sixth country in Europe to recognise the status of the believers and the persecution they face in various Muslim-majority countries. The other European countries to grant asylum to believers of this faith are Latvia, Greece, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom, along with the United States of America, are currently the first countries to grant charitable and tax-exempt status to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.

The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light continues to grow and become more established on a global scale—more than those who oppose it may care to acknowledge or accept. These seven Western countries have now made it abundantly clear that the attitudes of numerous Muslim countries—which continue to undermine the credibility of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light—violate their own international commitments to uphold the fundamental human right to freedom of belief. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations in 1948, establishes freedom of belief as a fundamental human right. Article 18 of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, which includes the freedom to change one’s religion or belief and to practice it publicly or privately.