 Abbott Freeland, observed in his book, Islam and Pakistan,

Ghulam Ahmad was constantly engaged in controversies with the British missionaries.Western historians have recorded this effort as one of the features of Ghulam Ahmad's legacy.Francis Robinson states; 
At their most extreme religious strategies for dealing with the Christian presence might involve attacking Christian revelation at its heart, as did the Punjabi Muslim, Ghulam Ahmad (d.1908), who founded the Ahmadiyya missionary sect.