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To: Cronos

If there was a “reformation” of Islam, it was the Sufi Mystics in India, of course by in large, they were brutally exterminated an only isolated sects remain.


11 posted on 05/17/2015 9:53:54 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

The Sufis to me seem more syncretic — like the Bekhtashis (or are they the same?) — combining aspects of Bhakti Hinduism with Islam.


31 posted on 05/18/2015 12:35:25 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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