He keeps talking about wahhabis. What about salafis? ISIS are salafis. Not that wahhabis are less violent; but the 2 are different & salafis don’t accept & mock wahhabi teachings as ‘impure’.
It does get complicated.-Tom
Robin Wright-
A common denominator among disparate Salafi groups is inspiration and support from Wahhabis, a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam from Saudi Arabia.
Not all Saudis are Wahhabis.
Not all Salafis are Wahhabis, either.
But Wahhabis are basically all Salafis.
And many Arabs, particularly outside the sparsely populated Gulf, suspect that Wahhabis are trying to seize the future by aiding and abetting the region’s newly politicized Salafis — as they did 30 years ago by funding the South Asian madrassas that produced Afghanistan’s Taliban.
Yes, but Salafis are very close to Wahhabis, ideologically. In a way Salafis, though they hold Wahhabism in disrepute, are just “super-Wahhabis” who spring from the same source but apply their principals even more strictly. If the doctrines that support Wahhabism were renounced, then that would undermine Salafism as well, just as if you denounce the doctrines that led to Protestantism, you necessarily also denounce the Reformers.