Posted on 05/15/2005 9:20:39 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
The Sufi branch of Islam has enjoyed spectacularly good press in the West. Hailed as peaceful mystics who believe jihad is a spiritual quest, nothing violent or unpleasant, Sufism has attracted favorable attention and converts from all sorts of Westerners, from new agers in Marin County, California, to East Coast intellectuals. But Sufis are not necessarily all peace-loving meditative seekers of the divine.
The formation of the The Sufi Jihadi Squadrons of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani in Iraq was recently announced at the jihadist website, Jihad Unspun. The Al-Gilani (d.1166) after whom they are named was in fact a Hanbali Sufi.
Sufi jihadists(?)a Hanbali Sufi(??)havent we been lectured at great length about the singular evils of Wahhabism rooted in the Hanbali school of Muslim jurisprudence, epitomized by Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328)versus its Islamic antithesis, the ecumenical tradition of mystical Sufism???
Notwithstanding the musings of a Muslim journalist and neo-convert from Bolshevism to Sufi Islam (see his bizarre and treacly profession of faith here, and a clinical description of what this newly described syndrome represents), Sufism has been linked integrally to the Muslim institution of jihad war since the 11th century C.E.
Consistent with this nexus between Sufism and orthodox Islam, Sufis have supported (fervently) the corollary institution of dhimmitude, replete with all its oppressive and humiliating regulations for non-Muslims. It is also important to highlight, in contrast, the very flimsy theological foundation of the much ballyhooed Sufi notion of the so-called greater spiritual jihad. Even the Islamophilic scholar Reuven Firestone has acknowledged the dubious nature of the hadith ostensibly outlining this potential interpretation of jihad
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The names that these folks think up are just ridiculous. When I think of a squadron, the last thing I think of is a fool with a bomb strapped to his chest.
I was just thinking the same thing. Islamists are such drama queens.
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...and three of them, commaned' by an imam, are a "brigade".
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