Now they are just orthodox Muslims, following the Sunni Hanafi Deobandi school.
This caused controversy with the French and many orthodox Muslims.
Many orthodox Muslims rejected mutazilite doctrines and condemned their idea of the creation of the Quran.
"To say you're going to change one part of it is to shake the whole foundation, for many orthodox Muslims."
People here are mostly orthodox Muslims.
"If this turns out to be that threatening, orthodox Muslims are not going to take it lying down."
And how can he keep non-Muslims content without making orthodox Muslims extremely discontented?
Who is going to come to the defense of orthodox Muslims now?
Furthermore, unlike more orthodox Muslims, Ahmadis believe that mankind has gradually evolved from different species.
The eagle with its wings spread wide must have been a startling sight to Saudi Arabia's more orthodox Muslims.