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| | The Globalist Global Society -- Wahhabism Goes Global |
 | | Wahhabism has become an ugly and ruthless caricature of the faith which — according to its foundational text (the Holy Quran) — was sent as mercy to humanity. | | | The objective of Wahhabism is to revive the ritual and conceptual purity of Islam. | | | Wahhabism has become an ugly caricature of the faith which — according to the Holy Quran — was sent as mercy to humanity. |
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| | Wahhabi |
| | Central to Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab's message was the essential oneness of God (tawhid). | | | Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab's emphasis on the oneness of God was asserted in contradistinction to shirk, or polytheism, defined as the act of associating any person or object with powers that should be attributed only to God. | | | Wahhabism [Wahabism] is a reform movement that began 200 years ago to rid Islamic societies of cultural practices and interpretation that had been acquired over the centuries. |
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| | Wahhabism at opensource encyclopedia |
| | Wahhabism is a movement of Islam founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703 - 1792). | | | Wahhabism claims to restore Islam from what they see see as as innovations, superstitions, deviances, heresies and idolatries in the religion. | | | Wahhabism is partly based on the 14th century Muslim theologian, scholar and jurist Ibn Taymiyya (1263 - 1328). |
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| | PBS - frontline: saudi time bomb?: analyses: wahhabism |
| | It is an austere form of Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran. | | | Strict Wahhabis believe that all those who don't practice their form of Islam are heathens and enemies. | | | Here are excerpts from FRONTLINE's interviews with Mai Yamani, an anthropologist who studies Saudi society; Vali Nasr, an authority on Islamic fundamentalism; Maher Hathout, spokesperson for the Islamic Center of Southern California; and Ahmed Ali, a Shi'a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. |
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| | Wahhabism : Saudis Seek U.S. Muslims for Their Sect |
| | Followers of Wahhabism believe that their faith should be spread around the world and that they have a special obligation to defend Islam, with violence if need be, in countries where it is already well established. | | | A number of prominent religious scholars describe Wahhabism as a particularly rigid minority Islamic sect that is intolerant of other forms of Islam, unwilling to accommodate other religions and likely to create a narrow view of the world among its followers. | | | As the Saudis themselves explain, their beliefs reject aspects of Western culture that they see as deviating from fundamental teachings of the Koran. |
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| | UCLA International Institute :: Wahhabism, bin Ladenism, and the Saudi Arabia Dilemma |
| | Wahhabism is a movement within Islam based on the 18th century teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. | | | While the ulema were very influential in cultural life, the religious ideals of Wahhabism were translated politically into a state ideology in which the primary duty of Saudis was to obey their rulers. | | | Their deferrals often were not based on religious principles, but rather on the idea of "Wilayat ul-A'hed," or inherited authority; according to this idea, the leader has the right to decide certain things, such as when jihad will begin and end. |
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| | Talk:Wahhabism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Moreover relating Wahhabism to totalitarian religious groups is inappropriate because any totalitarian aspect of Wahhabism in practice derives solely from human influences. | | | Now, I know that many nations in which, for instance, Catholicism is the major or even national faith, most inhabitants do not adhere to any and all tenements of said faith, so it would be nonsense to assume that all inhabitants of Saudi Arabia are fanatical Wahhabists. | | | Althought there are a significant number of Saudi extremists, the vast majority are very moderate and not at all puritanical about their religion. |
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| | Whabbism |
| | Wahhabism, the religion of the Saud tribe, became the official state religion of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | | | Muhammad bin Saud adopted Wahhabism as the religion for his al-Saud tribe, which lived in the eastern Arabian province of Najd. | | | Muhammad Ibn 'Abdi'-l-Wahhab daughter married Abdul Aziz, son of Muhammad bin Saud, leader of the al-Saud tribe, in 1744. |
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| | Ordinary Wahhabism |
| | In its narrowest and most precise sense Wahhabism is a teaching that was formulated in the 18th century by Arabic religious reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. | | | Wahhabism first began to manifest as an ideology among antigovernment extremist groups in Arabic countries during the 70's and 80's. | | | This is the main postulate of Wahhabism, and the followers of this teaching call themselves accordingly - monotheists. |
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| | National Review: AT WAR: Liberation, Not Containment: How to win the war on Wahhabism |
| | Wahhabism "reformed" and "revived" Islam not by opening to the world, but by turning deeply inward, becoming narrow, rigid, literalistic, and puritanical-before finally exploding into a violent challenge against the Islamic civilization of the Ottomans. | | | And we must fight Wahhabism to the death, to secure not only our survival but that of Islam itself as a great religion and civilization. | | | Other religions had already experienced bouts of revivalist utopianism, but by the time Wahhabism emerged, these other movements had already been redirected into socially constructive paths: The apocalyptic frenzies that gripped Christendom from the time of St. Francis had been reformulated, through Protestantism, into the intellectual and economic revolutions of the European bourgeoisie. |
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| | Wahhabism and it's Refutation |
| | Wahhabism was established by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. | | | Muhammad's father, 'Abd al-Wahhab, who was a pious Muslim and a scholar of Medina, apprehended from Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's words that he would start a perverted movement and advised everybody not to talk with him. | | | There he found and read books written by Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya of Harran [661-728 (1263-1328), d. |
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| | WAHHABISM: STATE-SPONSORED EXTREMISM WORLDWIDE |
| | "Wahhabism prohibits the woman from working, forbids her to drive a car, and bans democracy, treating it as a religion in addition to the religion of Allah. | | | "Wahhabism needs now an attack of another kind that will be like the attack of Muhammad 'Ali, but will be this time an ideological, cultural, religious, and political attack that will be led by the Saudi authorities themselves, and will not be forced from without. | | | On the contrary, this Wahhabism leads, as we have seen, to the birth of extremist, closed, and fanatical streams, that accuse others of heresy, abolish them, and destroy them. |
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| | Wahabis |
| | Khawarij threw accusations of blasphemy on Ali and Mu’awiya, | | | Wahhabism is named after the its founder, Muhammad ibn `Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792), and has its roots in the land now known as | | | Wahhabism did not stop after the death of Muhammad ibn Sa`ud &; in 1765, but continued with unrelenting and barbaric force under the leadership of his son, Abdul-Aziz, who captured the city of |
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| | Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article |
| | The second difference between the early Islamic period and Wahhabism is that the spiritual leader in Wahhabism does not assume political power, but rather implicitly permits a division between the temporal and the spiritual. | | | For Wahhab, his fundamentalist movement attained political and military backing in a time and place in which he perceived Islamic observance to be insufficient. | | | Yet there is much more that makes Wahhabism unique and dangerous beyond categorization under "political Islam," "Islamism" or "Islamic extremism." Wahhabism is opposed to any Islamic schools of law being taken as an absolute and unquestioned authority. |
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| | Russia Profile - The Official Line on Wahhabism |
| | Wahhabism in its purist form has played an important part in the Islamic renewal movement, and both the term and the faith it refers to have been widely misunderstood. | | | Criticism of Wahhabism also has proved a convenient tool in the hands of those who defend Islam as a peaceful and constructive religion. | | | According to Ramazan Abdulatipov, a member of the Federation Council, “Wahhabism represents everything that is ignorant in Islam.” Following this logic, all extremist movements that have appeared in the post-Soviet Muslim regions can be connected with Wahhabism. |
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| | Focus on Social Issues - What is Wahhabism and what do Wahhabis believe? |
| | Wahhabism is a sect based on the eighteenth-century teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1787). | | | Followers of this sect are called Wahhabis by outsiders, but they prefer to call themselves al-Muwahhidun (Unitarians) or Ahl al-Tawhid (People of the Oneness of God). | | | Far from repudiating the use of the sword to advance Wahhabism, Wahhabi religious authorities consider it entirely legitimate. |
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| | TIME Magazine: Can We Trust Saudi Arabia? |
| | Wahhab's list of corruptions was sweeping; it included Shi'ism, the faith's minority strain, and Sufism, its mystical tradition. | | | The version of Islam that Wahhab conceived in the 1740s is now the state religion of Saudi Arabia. | | | As the Sauds gained territory, they imposed what Paul Hardy, author of Traditions of Islam, calls Wahhabism's "radical intolerance." In 1926 they introduced the muttawa, religious police who enforce prayer five times a day, monitor citizens' cell-phone text messages and arrest women for failing to cover themselves completely with the black abaya robe. |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Defeating Wahabbism by Stephen Schwartz |
| | While the main immediate aim of Wahhabism is to capture and guide the global Islamic community, its doctrines are also deeply suffused with hatred of the other religions. | | | In this book, I discuss the origins of the Islamic sect of Wahhabism, its involvement with the royal authorities of Saudi Arabia, and the entanglement of both the sect and the kingdom with the global organization and financing of Islamic extremism and terrorism. | | | Funeral observances and elaborate weddings have been part of Islam all over the world since the time of Muhammad. |
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| | Understanding Saudi Islam-Wahhabism: Free Muslims Coalition |
| | Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. | | | For opponents of Wahhabism, mere profession of the attestation of faith was sufficient for a person to be considered a Muslim and entitled to all privileges and immunities inhering in such status. | | | The jurists' position was expounded by a brilliant grandson of the founder of Wahhabism, Sulayman ibn Abd Allah, who was executed by the invading army in 1818, at the young age of thirty-two. |
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| | Wahhabism |
| | Wahhabi theology and jurisprudence is based respectively on the teachings of Ibn Taymiyah and on the legal school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal; they stress literal belief in the Quran and Hadith and the establishment of a Muslim state based solely on Islamic law. | | | Wahhabis practice an extreme form of Puritanism; they limit themselves to simple short prayers, worship in undecorated mosques where even the name of the Prophet cannot be inscribed, and refuse to celebrate his birthday. | | | Many Islamic scholars and organizations have published denunciations of Wahhabism as a rigid minority sect intolerant of other forms of Islam. |
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| | Globalists Created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global State |
| | Basically, Wahhab contrived the idea that, simply by the trivial act of offering prayers to saints, their Turkish brethren had forfeited their faith, and therefore, that it was permitted to kill all who refused to adhere to his reforms, and to enslave their women and children. | | | To understand the brand of fanaticism that Wahhabism inculcated, it is first necessary to recognize that Islam called upon all Muslims, regardless of their race or nationality, to see themselves as brothers in faith. | | | But most important was the strategy to "insert heresies into Muslims' creedal tenets and then criticize Islam for being a religion of terror." To this purpose, Hempher located a particularly corrupt individual by the name of Mohammed Ibn Adbul Wahhab. |
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| | Understanding the Origins of Wahhabism and Salafism |
| | Wahhabism was a pared-down Islam that rejected modern influences, while Salafism sought to reconcile Islam with modernism. | | | Although Salafism and Wahhabism began as two distinct movements, Faisal's embrace of Salafi pan-Islamism resulted in cross-pollination between ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s teachings on tawhid, shirk and bid’a and Salafi interpretations of ahadith (the sayings of Muhammad). | | | What they had in common is that both rejected traditional teachings on Islam in favor of direct, ‘fundamentalist’ reinterpretation. |
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| | Wahhabism Unveiled |
| | Schwartz observes that only a small percentage of Muslims are Wahhabis and that Wahhabism is at odds with traditional Islamic values. | | | Schwartz perhaps underplays the fact that Islam throughout its history has tended to see religion and politics as unified rather than distinct spheres. | | | He relates the life of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, born in 1703 in central Arabia. |
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| | MWU!: Wahhabism and the Illusion of a Golden Age |
| | Deviations from the fundamentals of tawhid al ibada are categorized as bid’a, which in the strictest sense is defined as an innovation in religious matters-specifically, any religious practice or concept that had its genesis after the third century of the Islamic era. | | | Deobandism, etc
We must recognize that all of these movements, suffused with Abdul Wahhab’s spirit, have contributed to a virulent and parochial Islam that has gained currency with many throughout the world. | | | Yet such thinking is intrinisically flawed because, as Abou El Fadl notes, by emphasizing a presumed golden age in Islam, the adherents of Salafism (Wahhabism) effectively idealize the time of the Prophet and his companions, and ignore or demonize the balance of Islamic history. |
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| | Wahhabism, Wahhabiyyah, Muwahhidun, Wahhabi |
| | The term Wahhabism is an outsiders' designation for the religious movement within Islam founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al - Wahhab (1703 - 92). | | | Members describe themselves as muwahhidun ("unitarians"), those who uphold firmly the doctrine that God is one, the only one (wahid). | | | Adherents insist on a literal interpretation of the Koran and a strict doctrine of predestination. |
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| | Wahhabism, the Saudi Arabia-based puritanical heresy at the base of Islamism |
| | Among Sunni ‘uleams who refuted Wahhabism we must also mention Sayyed Dawud Ibn Sulayman, Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi, Sun‘ Allah al-Halabi al-Makki al-Hanafi, Muhammad Ma‘sum as-Sarhindi, Muhammad Ibn Sulayman al-Madani ash-Shaf‘i, may Allah be pleased with all of them. | | | By saying so, he destroys Wahhabism from its roots, since Wahhabi books say that Ummah al-Muhammadiyyah is involved in polytheism, that Muslim countries are full of idols, and that Muslim graves are houses of shirk. | | | The "Shaykh" also appointed some "wakils" and send them to preach Wahhabism in Mecca, but scholars living in the Blessed City were ready in understanding how dangerous this doctrine was. |
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| | The beginning and spread of Wahhabism |
| | In 1143 (1730), Muhammad ibn Sa'ud and Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab hand in hand arrived at the conclusion that those who would not accept Wahhabism were disbelievers and polytheists, and that it was halal to kill them and confiscate their possessions, and publicly announced their declaration seven years later. | | | The bestial people and pillagers of the desert competed with one another in joining the army of Muhammad ibn Sa'ud when it was said that it was halal to plunder and kill Muslims. | | | The tenets of Wahhabism disseminated by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab changed into a political form in a short time in 1150 A.H. (1737) and spread all over Arabia. |
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| | Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S. (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Wahhabism took root in the Arabian desert in the 1740s, promulgated by Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab, who sought to purge what he saw as corrupting influences in Islam and return it to original orthodoxy. | | | From washingtonpost.com at 11:08 PM Wahhabism took root in the Arabian desert in the 1740s, promulgated by Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab, who sought to purge what he saw as corrupting influences in Islam and return it to original orthodoxy. | | | But his travels form a road map to some of the religious and charitable groups in America dedicated to the spread of Wahhabism, the rigid and puritanical strain of Islam dominant in Saudi Arabia. |
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| | The Real Islam |
| | The House of Sa'ud—which rules Saudi Arabia—is directly descended from that alliance, and Wahhabism (though Saudis don't use the term) is the religion of the regime. | | | As Schwartz describes it, "Shi'as, Sufis, and other Muslims he judged unorthodox were to be exterminated, and all other faiths were to be humiliated." Al-Wahhab soon established a political-religious alliance with a local bandit, Muhammad ibn Sa'ud, and they agreed that any territory they conquered could only be ruled by their descendants. |
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| | TCS Daily - The Trojan Horse of Wahhabism |
| | Rather, the problem has everything to do with the international spread of Wahhabism, the violent, exclusivist, and fanatical Islamic sect that is the state religion in | | | Their Islam follows the pluralistic Hanafi school of religious law, and they have learned that survival is based on coexistence with their Christian neighbors, rather than agitation against them. | | | but we have a tradition of resisting Islamic fundamentalism, and problems with the Greeks will not become a pretext for Wahhabism to increase its influence. |
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| | Amazon.com: Wahhabism: A Critical Essay: Books: Hamid Algar |
| | The author discusses the rise of Wahhabism at the hands of Muhammad b. | | | It also makes note the often controversial definition of extremism as the Salafi's (Muslim Brotherhood), are often compared to Wahhabi belief. | | | Hamid Algar along with other great professors who study The Middle East and Islam @ UC-Berkeley (to mention another Hatem Bazian(I know because I have met them)), are honored scholars in their fields. |
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| | Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs: On Terrorism, Methodism, Saudi 'Wahhabism' and the Censored 9-11 Report |
| | Some well-intentioned people of my acquaintance see non-Christian faiths as "the enemy" and believe it incumbent upon them to---"marching as to war, with the Cross of Jesus going on before"---spread the Holy Word (which they just know is the Truth) before the Rapture comes. | | | Islam (including "Wahhabism"), is not the enemy and need not frighten us. | | | Normal, decent, literate people even now in the 21st century believe in all kinds of dubious phenomena: elephant-headed gods, divinely-inspired prophecy, talking donkeys, the visit of Jesus to recite the Sermon on the Mount in the sky over upstate New York 2000 years ago. |
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| | "Reining in Riyadh" by Dore Gold |
| | Wahhabism gave teeth to its tenets by arming itself through an alliance between its founder, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, and the head of the Saudi clan, Muhammad ibn Saud, in 1744. | | | Wahhabism also broke with Islamic tradition by legitimizing jihad against other Muslims. | | | In the name of Wahhabism, its adherents were extraordinarily brutal toward noncombatants, including women and children, delegitimizing them as mushrikun, or polytheists, who did not have any right to live. |
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| | Saudis' strict Islam called a 'threat' - The Washington Times: World |
| | Wahhabism is a puritanical form of Islam that teaches intolerance of anyone who does not conform to its worldview — Muslims and non-Muslims alike. | | | It is taught in Saudi schools and preached in tens of thousands of government-supported mosques. | | | The commission, established by Congress during the Clinton administration as a State Department body charged with monitoring religious rights, held a hearing yesterday titled: "Is Saudi Arabia a Strategic Threat: The Global Propagation of Intolerance." |
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| | Wahhabi Islam — the Real Enemy of the West Wahhabi Islam — the Real Enemy of the West |
| | Today, Wahhabism is the dominant Islamic tradition on the Arabian penninsula, though its influence is greatly reduced in the rest of the Middle East. | | | I've had a representative from the Islamic Supreme Council of America, representing the views of the moderate Muslim (the majority of Muslims) on my now defunct Banana Republican Radio Hour and people just didn't want to hear anything other than "Islam is evil" and "Islam is the enemy". | | | This can be seen with a couple of factors, first of which is al-Wahhab's use of the term jahiliyya to vilify a society which he does not consider pure enough, whether they call themselves Muslim or not. |
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| | Wahhabism in America - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | Although there is no evidence that Saudi Arabia has directly sponsored terrorism, it nonetheless is the largest contributor to the faith that breads it: Wahhabism, a fringe Islamic sect created more than 1,000 years after the time of Muhammad. | | | After this separation is complete, they are then instructed to distance themselves from Muslims who do not share the extreme beliefs of Wahhabism. | | | Wahhabism, especially as it attempts to influence American Muslims, is best described as a cult and should be dealt with as one. |
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| | Wahhabism - definition of Wahhabism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Islam, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism, Islamism - the monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" | | | Wahhabism - definition of Wahhabism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | Wahhabism - a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia; "Osama bin Laden and his followers practice Wahhabism" |
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| | Middle East Report 204: A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen, by Shelagh Weir |
| | These youths were attracted to Islah (which they equated with Wahhabism) because of its effective social welfare programs, and to Wahhabism because of its opposition to the Zaydi religious elite (sadah, singular sayyid), its direct, unmediated relationship to God, its egalitarianism and what they saw as its clear, logical doctrines. | | | Upon their return to the Sa'dah region, they set up lesson circles, religious institutes and Wahhabi mosques. | | | Wahhabism was introduced into the province of Sa'dah by local men who had converted while studying religion in Saudi Arabia or fighting with the mujahidin in Afghanistan. |
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| | TCS Daily - What Is a Moderate Muslim? |
| | If a Sunni denies that Wahhabism exists by saying âthere is only Islam,â or tries to cover Wahhabism with an ameliorative term like âSalafismâ -- a fraudulent effort to equate Wahhabism with the pioneers of the Islamic faith -- the individual is an extremist. | | | It seems unnecessary to add that those who try to disclaim a link between Wahhabism and al-Qaida, or who blame al-Qaida on American machinations, cannot be considered moderates. | | | Moderate Sunni Muslims may be recognized in person by asking a simple question: âwhat do you think of Wahhabism, the state Islamic sect of Saudi Arabia?â Every Muslim in the world knows about Wahhabism, and knows that it is embodied in al-Qaida. |
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