Posted on 10/05/2007 2:24:32 PM PDT by knighthawk
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Pretty much sums up the history of Islamic fractionalism....
It also suggests the means by which movement-sized groups of these folks can be disrupted.
Baggy-pant yutes right now in your 'hood'.
Salafists communicate mainly through the Internet.
Something wrong here.
If they want to live like the first few generations of Muslims they wouldn’t be using the internet.
You beat me to it.
Does not compute. Does not compute.
btt
Mutually exclusive statements. The Koranus explicitly demands slavishly following its every word; and to violently destroy any who believe otherwise.
But Salafism also has its weaknesses. Its very insistence on a literal and univocal reading of the religious texts leaves little room for tolerating alternative interpretations.
And NONE for competing religions, A to Z: i.e. Buddhism, Chrisitanity, Hinduism, Judaism, .... Zoroastrianism
Takfir Salafists, Bernard Haykel explains, believe in the doctrine of takfir. This doctrine enables them to routinely brand Muslims with other views than Salafism as heretics or unbelievers.
Salafists reject the beliefs of the majority of the Muslim community. They regard Shi'ites as dangerous heretics posing as Muslims and they particularly despise Sufis, the mystics of Islam. They often refer to a tradition according to which the Prophet had said that towards the end of time, there would be 73 groups of Muslims of which only one would be "saved" and enter Paradise.
Why is there any surprise, feigned or otherwise, that this appeals to baggy-panted Muslim youth?
Sounds like the Leninists and the Troskysists (and innumerable other commie fringists and assorted wingnuts). Amazing how Satan's minions can't ever agree on anything.
I for one, will be unable to sleep tonight unless we can firmly establish as to whether these folks are Baggy-Panted or Half-Masted.
bttt
Do you want to know WHY they "traditioonally" wear baggy pants?
God's honest truth: Several different Bedouin told my father, when he worked among them, that it was to "catch their savior", because their scriptures/traditions say "he would be born of man"!
No, NOT born of Man; but born of man, a MALE, because a woman is an unclean a vessle so her womb could not hold such a "holy" babe.
Baggy pants, because it would be totally inexcusable to drop the infant; BUT, those same scriptures/traditions say that 'he can come at any moment', so they have to be ready, and those baggy trousers ensure he'll be safely caught!!!
No, I do NOT have any links to this; I only have my late father's word that this is what Beduoin tribesmen told him, when he worked in Saudi & Kuwait some 50 years ago.
More like simple-minded.
Considering the only available orifice through which their savior could be emitted, this seems like a believable tradition for them
They might just win, despite that. They are willing to fight for what they want. We are, for the most part, unwilling to do what's necessary to resist them. And within a generation they might be in control of Europe
My thoughts exactly.
Salafism is popular everywhere, but where it has or has had power. Ask Afghani’s about the Wahhabi’s and Arab Islamic fundamentalists. Ask the Iraqis. Ask Iranians about the Shi’ite version of Salafism. Ask the Lebanese what they think about Nasrallah and the Islamic fundamentalists. Why do they never get their voices heard in the Western Media? Well, that’s easy, they don’t sound the liberal template of anti-Americanism. Anti-communists from the Communist countries never got heard in the Liberal Media.
I was making a funny, but now that you mention that, I had heard of this but thought it was a Sikh belief.
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