Cronos thinks Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism in particular has been corrupting Islam in the region making it more radical.
He may be right. I don’t have a way of knowing what the Saudi Wahhabis have been up to with regard to that.
Cronos thinks Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism in particular has been corrupting Islam in the region making it more radical.
I would agree with Cronos regarding Wahhabism in the ME....though I’m not so sure it’s corrupting Islam...it IS Islam and the one form of which has the front seat world wide as well.
There are the “softer sides of Islam” groups but they’ll all unit when it comes to anyone they perceive in the way of Islamic Rule World wide....or be silent.
I wouldn't use those words -- Wahabbism is about taking Islam back to it's "pure" state under Mohammad -- so removing the Sufi saints, the teachings of Shia Imams/Ayatollahs and implementing strict Shariah and forcing jaziyah on Christians (killing the others). This is not "making it more radical" but returning it to its original virulent form before the Abbassids
The Saudi-Wahabbis used their oil money to make earlier "softer" (relatively) forms of Islam into clones of their own -- they created the Taliban, etc.
Caww is correctly about “softer sides uniting” — Shias, Sunnis, Ibadis, Ismailis etc. would unite against Christians.