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To: quidnunc
Al-Wahhab did not allow aggressive military action. Ibn Taymiyya did.

Which is traditional Mohammedan teaching and practice. The Mohammedans didn't conquer two-thirds of the Christian world by force of argument.

8 posted on 05/25/2005 10:41:20 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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Islamic scholars have a different view. They say today’s Wahhabism is a mutation of the movement’s founding principles, and that it must be understood in its historical context, from its founding in the 18th century up to its controversial status today.

I learn to understand it in the early afternoon of 9/11/01

11 posted on 05/25/2005 10:48:33 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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