Posted on 01/09/2006 6:26:48 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
Wahhabism is a fundamentalist movement, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792). It remains the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
Wahhabis believe that some Muslim groups such as Shia Islam follow novel or non-Islamic practices. Wahhabi theology advocates puritanical and legalistic stances in matters of faith and religious practice. Wahhabists see their role as a movement to restore Islam from what they perceive to be innovations, superstitions, deviances, heresies and idolatries. There are many practices that they believe are contrary to Islam.
Wahhabism was a considered a small sect within Islam until the discovery of oil in Arabia, in 1938. Enormous oil revenues provided the means to spread the beliefs of Wahhabism throughout the Middle East. Saudi laypeople, government officials and clerics have donated many tens of millions of dollars to create Wahhabi-oriented religious schools, newspapers and outreach organizations.
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OK, solution:
No mosques can be built in western countries unless an equivalent number of churches/synagogues are built in muslim countries (including KSA).
If we are in a culture war, then we cannot simply hide in our foxholes and let the enemy do all the shooting (and claim it is against the rules for us to be permitted to shoot back at all)
Then you'd agree with my mantra: "The oil is ours" (the West's).
I like in particular to use this with lefties when they start haranguing about Halliburton and "big oil."
"Yeah, well we found it, we developed it, we paid for it, we developed the technology to locate and extract it, and we use it. It's our oil. That it sits within the admittedly arbitrary borders created by the Brits is mere historic accident."
"BTW, the oil fields are the private property of various oil corporations and need to be returned to their owners."
The oil fields belong to the people who live in the area where they are found. These people are mostly Shia, who are treated as second-class by the Saudis.
The Saudis, who come from the middle of the Arabian peninsula, siezed both coasts and have ruled them ever since; but there is no reason both coastal regions could not be indepedent nations on their own (instead of being ruled by the Saudi clans).
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I read the Saudi paper The Arab News on line since 9/11.
The Saudis just ran a cartoon of Sharons stroke that was completely disgusting and the propaganda really flies in the opinion and the letters section.
Yeah? Why's that?
and those with a limitless supply of it make the rules...
Petrol dollars = terrorism
If you would like to get a Real idea how pervasive this exporting of Radical Islam is to the world and right here in the USA under our own noses !!!!
Please read this report - it speaks volumes of who our Real Enemy is & how we could become the next Europe !!
http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/publications/Saudi%20Report/FINAL%20FINAL.pdf
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