The Ahmadiyya branch in Islam has relationships with a number of other religions.Ahmadiyya consider themselves to be Muslim, but are not regarded as Muslim by mainstream Islam. The mainstream Muslims branches call the Ahmadiyya branch with the religious slur "Qadianis". and their beliefs as "Qadianism" which is named after Qadian, the small town in the Gurdaspur district of India's Punjab region where the founder of Ahmadiyya Ghulām Ahmad was born. The Ahmadi Musliims dislike this term, because it has derogatory connotations and because they prefer to differentiate their two movements.