Maybe you can help, What really is the difference between Salafism and Wahhabism? I just can’t see any difference. Thanks.
A Salafi (Arabic: سلفي) is a Muslim who emphasises the Salaf ("predecessors" or "ancestors"), the earliest Muslims, as model examples of Islamic practice.[1] The term has been in use since the middle ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as the Salafiyyah, which is related to or includes Wahhabism, so that the two terms are sometimes erroneously viewed as synonymous.[2] Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islamic theology and, in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse violent jihad against civilians as a legitimate expression of Islam.[3] Academics and historians use the term to denote "a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the 19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas," and "sought to expose the roots of modernity within Muslim civilization."[4]
It's a long and complicated item, but the impression I now have is that the sunni may be wahhabi, but not necessarilly salafi, and bin Laden would have been a perfect example of salafi, and maybe that's why he lost his Saudi citizenship and his family disowned him.