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To: vannrox
One question was left un-asked. "What about Wahabism?" Other questions relating to this come to mind. "What is the Wahabist sect of Islam?" "Is Wahabism a legitimate sect, or a distortion... to be condemmed?" "Is terrorism and it's identification with Islam a result of the preaching of the Wahabist sect?" "What about militant Shiite Islam?" "Can Wahabist sect members, and those with similar creeds, cause a worldwide war between Islam and the West?" "Is the government of Saudi Arabia facilitating the spreading of Wahabism across the Islamic world?" "Should Muslim clerics condemn Wahabism and State Terrorism, as practiced by Muslim states such as Iran?" And finally, "Isn't this what is really the problem, and what we are talking about in the first place,... and not American intolerance for Islamic people?"
26 posted on 06/13/2002 3:54:47 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: Richard Axtell
Most Muslims, especially, apparently, American apologists for Islam, shy away from the Wahhabi issue.

There are exceptions. There are Muslims out there who recognize Wahhabism for the revisionist kind of violent, intolerant, hateful belief it is, which is responsible for not only acts of violence against non-Muslims, but also against those Muslims who disagree with its agenda of intolerance, violence and hatred, like the Sufi sect - a pacificistic Islamic group pretty thoroughly stamped out in the Saudi Sheikdom by the Wahhabist majority there.

Also, since the Wahhabis control the sacred places of Islam - Mecca, Medina, etc, as well as the petrodollars of the Sheikdoms, they wield immense power in the Islamic world. Finally, most Mosques in the U.S. and western Europe are run by these vile and vicious people.

There is much in Islam that is admirable. Muslims DO worship the same God we do. But there appears to be considerable dichotomies in several parts of the Koran and the teachings of Mohammad, and a large gap exists between the perception of Islam as a "peaceful" religion and its practise in many parts of the world.

Regardless of how this writer presents his arguments and how one views Islam in general, Wahhabism is a vicious, dangerous, violent, anti-western and anti-American cult and, as such, neither it nor its practititioners should be protected within the United States or indeed withi the borders of any civilized western nation.

What I have said about Wahhabism can also be extended to Shiism.

91 posted on 06/14/2002 10:00:33 AM PDT by ZULU
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