Before the Internet, the strongest disinformation weapon in the hands of the Ahmadiyya leadership was countering any academic work about the community was :
This approach worked before the Internet Age. With the Internet, Ahmadis students failed to reconcile the academic world with the illogical and pseudo-intellectual audacity of the community's 'scholars'. A good many academic-minded Ahmadis left in the 1990s and 2000s and others raised serious questions about the intellectual qualifications of a community they considered a thought leader.
With the history and beliefs of the Ahmadiyya becoming more transparent with the Internet, the leadership has spent considerable effort in another three-pronged strategy:
In this section, we will present a list of academic articles, journals and books where the quality of research and peer review is questionable. In some cases, authors from unrelated disciplines have been paid to write.