This Doomsday Cult Paid Protestors for Solidarity
Crewe, England's notorious doomsday cult is caught paying protestors.
I’m Be Scofield, founder of The Guru Magazine and the journalist behind the hit HBO series on the Love Has Won cult. I’ve spent a decade reporting on spiritual power, abuse, and the machinery that protects it. My investigations have been cited by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, People and more.
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Several anti-racist groups in Crewe, England, are fracturing over their decision to attend a protest in support of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light—widely reported as a destructive doomsday cult. A few dozen members have dissented, with over ten resigning from the incident.
Members of the groups have revealed to me that after the protest, the Ahmadi cult handed each anti-racist group £2,000 in cash. Messages shown to me from inside the SCAR steering committee group chat confirm the receipt of the funds.
Due to the backlash from some members, two of three groups (SCAR and NorSCARF) have decided to return the funds. But some remain adamant that they will continue to protest in support of the Ahmadi group—seeing them as a persecuted religion consisting of mostly immigrants. They’ve said the allegations against the cult are just speculation.
The Protest
The incident unfolded over an anti-immigrant protest last Saturday, organized by a local named Dave Price, in front of the cult’s compound in Crewe. According to the video of the event, there were often fewer than ten people protesting the cult at any given time.
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light orchestrated a counterprotest, going so far as to have contacted Manchester Stand Up Against Racism. Internal messages from SCAR confirm the cult hired a bus to bring in the protesters from Manchester—a £1,000 cost.
“They told us they were terrified, and they needed protection,” an insider revealed to me.
This type of overdramatizing and staging events for publicity is commonplace for the cult. The leader, Abdullah Hashem, has made naive followers in Muslim countries repeatedly violate laws (like holding up pro-LGBTQ signs in Malaysia) to be arrested. While his followers languish in jail, Hashem and the group spin their arrests as “persecution” and exploit leftist sympathies.
Government Officials in Attendance
Several local government officials attended the counterprotest in support of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Those included Mayor Sally Graham and councilors Ben Wye and Marilyn Houston. The mayor has participated in several events with the cult.
Both Marilyn Houston and Ben Wye are also members of one of the anti-racist groups in question, SCAR. Wye attended the group meeting prior to the rally and shared his views on the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.
“Ben said it was most definitely a cult,” a SCAR member who was in the meeting told me. “He said he had visited them plenty of times and that the leader is a bit of a nasty piece of work. He talked about how the leader Abdullah used to investigate cults, and now he runs one.”
Three people who attended the SCAR meeting independently confirmed that Councilor Wye referred to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light as a cult.
“Ben said it was most definitely a cult.”
Wye also told the SCAR members he would not be attending the rally on Saturday.
Despite his critical statements, he showed up in support of the cult, as demonstrated by a video of the event.
In an internal SCAR group chat shared with me, councilor Marilyn Houston tells the fellow members she was “pleased to support” the rally and said there was a lot of “positive solidarity.”
Mistaken for Islam
The protesters, counterprotesters, and government officials in attendance mistakenly referred to the Ahmadi cult as Muslim.
The leader of the cult, Abdullah Hashem, says, “Islam is 99% wrong” and calls scholars of Islam the “worst creatures under the sky.” This is a classic cult leader move—discredit the authorities who have the ability to undermine your self-serving distortion of a religion.
The perception of Islam has served as a shield for the group, which continually exploits leftist sympathies by portraying themselves as victims of discrimination while engaging in harmful practices.
Inside Abdullah Hashem’s Cult
Standing with the Ahmadi cult means supporting a white American man from Indianapolis, IN, who has been accused of sexually abusing and exploiting immigrants.
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light is a personality cult built by Abdullah Hashem. He claims to be the reincarnation of Christ, the new Pope, God, and the Islamic savior called the Mahdi. He also claims to be the only person on the planet capable of interpreting all religious texts, including the Bible and the Quran.
This element distinguishes the group from a monastery or intentional community—which lacks the authoritarian leader who dictates people’s lives.
“We’re looking for people that are willing to sell their homes, come be a part of the community, and follow me,” Hashem states in a video. He requires his followers to pledge loyalty oaths in videos online. “Upon this I shall live. Upon this I shall die. And upon this I shall be resurrected again,” the oath concludes.
“There is no other way to support God than to come here and support you,” a staff member tells him in a video, her eyes filled with zeal. “Abdullah Hashem is here to save the world,” a devotee says in one video. “He is the most important person in the world,” says another.
He has convinced his followers that only those who support him will be spared from a violent “flood of blood” that will destroy much of the planet. “We believe you have to believe in him to be saved,” a key staff member states.
He also claims to have performed miracles such as making the moon disappear, resurrecting the dead, turning a leaf into a person, curing cancer, and more.
This is not Islam. It’s a destructive new age doomsday cult. Muslims have been trying to expose Hashem and his group for years.
Sexual Abuse and an Assassination Plot
I’ve now written ten stories on the Ahmadi cult. Ex-followers have reported a range of abuses by Hashem. The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, and VICE have all published stories after my original reporting.
The reason Hashem fled Germany was because some women followers filed complaints of sexual exploitation with the police. The group was then kicked out of Sweden for orchestrating illegal work visa schemes.
A former member described sexual rituals Hashem would engage in. “One of his ‘teachings’ was that, during sexual rituals, the Imam [Abdullah] must penetrate both the man and the woman in order to ‘cleanse them of sins,’” a man I call “Evan” explained. In another case, a female devotee very close to Hashem was allegedly sexually abused in front of her husband while Hashem watched—and a similar incident occurred when a former male member was sexually abused as part of a ‘test of faith’ by one of Hashem’s closest Iranian followers, again with Hashem observing.
In September I uncovered the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light’s plot to assassinate one of my key sources, Yasir. The man hired to kill my source ended up getting cold feet and revealed everything to Yasir.
I then interviewed the assassin, whom I called “Ibrahim” in my reporting. He told me longtime Ahmadi cult member Sajid Ali Khokhar had organized the plot. Ibrahim was given photos of my source, Yasir, as well as pictures of his car, license plate, and apartment building in Dubai—which he sent to me. He had even received Sajid’s passport.
“I’ll show you a way to kill him with no one knowing about it.”
Yasir lived in the Crewe compound for over a year before fleeing. He told me that Hashem once asked him and another member to kill a man who had an affair with the wife of a follower. “I’ll show you a way to kill him with no one knowing about it,” Hashem told them over a chat. When they refused to participate, Hashem said to them, “You have no faith.”
We even have a screenshot of a group chat where Hashem tells a husband, “Or you will kill her,” referring to the man’s own wife. Hashem is grilling him on what sexual activities his wife partook in. The husband responds using the term “master” for Hashem, which is common for his followers.
Yasir said there was another disturbing incident, which other former members have confirmed to me. “He sent his believers in Turkey to use knives to kill an Iraqi guy who had left and was making videos exposing Hashem.”
Hashem has an army of dozens of men who can be seen marching in military style in their compound. They have pledged to kill and die for Hashem.
“Abdullah claimed to have put poison in glasses to see if his followers would be willing to die for him,” a former member told me.
Most disturbing, Hashem’s “holy text,” called the Goal of the Wise, states boys are “also for sex” for both “men and the women.”
It’s clear the groups and individuals supporting the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light have failed to do even a basic level of due diligence on the allegations. They haven’t read the investigations or articles. Instead, they’ve accepted a simple binary that immigrants and religious minorities can do no wrong. Yet, when you reduce marginalized people into a benevolent monolith, you make them not human, and that is racist.
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