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Strict Wahhabism: A split branch or Islamic diversity?
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, October 11, 2001 | Larry Witham

Posted on 10/11/2001 12:37:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

An obscure sectarian divide in U.S. Islam is gaining more attention as the nation tries to understand the world's second-largest faith.

Wahhabism, a strict form of Muslim orthodoxy backed by Saudi Arabia's wealth and its members' missionary zeal, may have overshadowed alternative strands of Islam here, its critics say.


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1 posted on 10/11/2001 12:37:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Latest attempt to baffle us with bull-sh*t. Muslim extremists, terrorists, and their sympathizers, have no place within the borders of the USA, period. Deport them, all of them.
2 posted on 10/11/2001 12:42:54 AM PDT by onyx
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3 posted on 10/11/2001 2:19:00 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: onyx
Muslim extremists, terrorists, and their sympathizers, have no place within the borders of the USA, period.

It is redundant to say Muslim extremist, and it's pointless to try to distinguish a Muslim from a terrorist, or a terrorist sympathizer. The Wahhabis, like Osama Bin Laden, are simply good Muslims, doing precisely what the Koran instructs them to do:

Medina Suras
The Chapter of Women
[Chapters from the Koran]
The Harvard Classics 1909–14

But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say—as though there were no friendship between you and him—‘O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness!’ Let those then fight in God’s way who sell this life of the world for the next; and whoso fights in God’s way, then, be he killed or be he victorious, we will give him a mighty hire.

What ails you that ye do not fight in God’s way, and for the weak men and women and children, who say, ‘Lord, bring us out of this town 19 of oppressive folk, and make for us from Thee a patron, and make for us from Thee a help?’

Those who believe fight in the way of God; and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Tâghût; fight ye then against the friends of Satan, verily, Satan’s tricks are weak.

Do ye not see those to whom it is said, ‘Restrain your hands, and be steadfast in prayer and give alms;’ and when it is prescribed for them to fight then a band of them fear men, as though it were the fear of God or a still stronger fear, and they say, ‘O our Lord! why hast thou prescribed for us to fight, couldst thou not let us abide till our near appointed time?’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is but slight, and the next is better for him who fears;’—but they shall not be wronged a straw.

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Why are ye two parties about the hypocrites, when God hath overturned them for what they earned? Do ye wish to guide those whom God hath led astray? Whoso God hath led astray ye shall not surely find for him a path. They would fain that ye misbelieve as they misbelieve, that ye might be alike; take ye not patrons from among them until they too flee in God’s way; but if they turn their backs, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them, and take from them neither patron nor help,—save those who reach a people betwixt whom and you is an alliance—or who come to you while their bosoms prevent them from fighting you or fighting their own people. But had God pleased He would have given you dominion over them, and they would surely have fought you. But if they retire from you and do not fight you, and offer you peace,—then God hath given you no way against them.

Ye will find others who seek for quarter from you, and quarter from their own people; whenever they return to sedition they shall be overturned therein: but if they retire not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them;—over these we have made for you manifest power.


4 posted on 10/11/2001 3:28:58 AM PDT by SlickWillard
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I think the Saudi Royal family counts Wahab as an ancestor.
5 posted on 10/11/2001 3:35:37 AM PDT by Credo
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The most reasonable explanation I have heard is that there is a symbiotic relationship between the Saudi throne and Wahhabism. The legitimacy of the Saudi throne was endorsed by Wahhab in the beginning and is to the present still dependent upon it. This is particularly important because the most sacred religious sites are located in Saudi Arabia. If I recall correctly, this analyst also pointed out that the Saudi government funded schools rigorously instill Wahhabism in their students. Saudi Arabia is one of the few muslim nations which makes no pretense of religous freedom.
6 posted on 10/11/2001 4:04:11 AM PDT by monocle
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The Sufi have been persecuted by Islamofascists for *centuries,* long before wahhabism even existed as a separate "movement," because they are NOT "literalists" or "fundamentalists." What people forget is that Islamofascists persecute and kill other Muslims as enthusiastically as they persecute and kill those outside their own narrow brand of "religion."
7 posted on 10/11/2001 6:37:46 AM PDT by ikanakattara
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To: SlickWillard,ppaul
Personally, I am more than suspicious of all Muslims. Deeds, not words, influence me.
8 posted on 10/11/2001 10:45:22 AM PDT by onyx
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9 posted on 10/12/2001 1:22:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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