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October:02:2014
“It’s Not the Same!”
Writing at Al-Monitor, Bader al-Rashed, a Saudi commentator, points out how the government of Saudi Arabia seems to be trying to draw a line between the dominant interpretation of Islam in Saudi Arabia (frequently called “Wahhabism”) and the beliefs and actions of ISIS. There are efforts being made to identify ISIS as Kharajites, referring to the 7th C. group that supported a philosophy at odds with both Sunni and Shi’a interpretations of Islam and Islamic rule and was noted for its harsh implementation of takfirism.
This is all well and good, al-Rashed writes, but is complicated by the fact that ISIS is busy handing out books written by Mohammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, whose writing are at the core of Saudi religious belief and practice. Oops.
Over the past 10 years or so, the Saudi government has tried to back away from the most severe interpretations of Islam that it had largely acquiesced to following the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca. It has managed to do so, to some extent. The government, though, has not been able to ‘convert’ all Saudis to a regime of tolerance. This is proved by its now having to arrest and imprison domestic extremists.
How Saudi Arabia is distancing itself from the Islamic State
Bader al-Rashed
Thirteen years after US President George W. Bush declared war on terrorism, the Middle East is no closer to victory. Instead, terrorism appears to have morphed into an even more dangerous beast in the form of the Islamic State (IS). Westerners, as expressed through the media, seem to be under the same impression as they were after Sept. 11, 2001 — namely, that the Sunni jihadist movement is linked to the Wahhabi brand of Islam emanating from Saudi Arabia. This has prompted renewed debate among Saudis about this supposed Wahhabist-jihadist connection.
After bombings in Riyadh by al-Qaeda in 2003, the relationship between terrorism and religious extremism was widely discussed in the kingdom, with the government establishing the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue that same year. During the dialogue’s second meeting, Extremism and Moderation … A Comprehensive Methodological Vision, it was agreed that religious programs in Saudi Arabia were the primary force behind the spread of extremism in society. As a result of the dialogue, school curricula, the religious curriculum in particular, were modified by the Ministry of Education. Doubts remained, however, that religious education had been sufficiently modified given that radical Islamists were believed to dominate the education sector in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia is today taking seriously the allegations in the international media that it is the ideological root of the current jihadist groups. Some have sought to defend the country’s religious vision by trying to disassociate Sunni jihadist groups from their brand of Islam, instead castigating other groups, such as the Kharijites — an Islamic sect separate from Sunnis and Shiites that emerged from the first Islamic civil war in the seventh century between Ali Ibn Ali Talib and Muawiya Ibn Abi Sufyan following the killing of the third caliph, Uthman Ibn ...
Here comes the idiotic fake American "Jew" and his usual anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-KSA propaganda. ISIS is handling out the Noble Qur'an. Why is that not mentioned? So by that logic Islam = ISIS? No prove of that claim either.
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab al-Tamimi (ra) was an eminent Islamic scholar of the Hanbali fiqh of his time that corrected un-Islamic practices in Najd in the 18th century. His call to Tawhid is an absolute core principle of Islam that every single Muslim will agree to.
How is it Islam's fault, any historical MUSLIM scholar etc. that certain individuals misuse their work and turn it into something that has nothing to do with their work? ISIS and other groups claim that they are following Islam yet the evidence on the ground proves the opposite on most occasions.
How about that for a second? Oh, well simpletons like you don't think that far.
ISIS has absolutely nothing to do with KSA. It founders were not from KSA, none of it leaders have been so, nor was that terrorist organization born in KSA, nor have most of their teachings anything to do with Islam let alone any madahib in that religion. Nor that of KSA. ISIS has unfortunately attracted misguided individuals (mostly youngsters from difficult homes) from KSA and hundreds of other countries. That's it.
Aside from that then there is a general consensus in the Islamic world and among the most respected Islamic scholars that ISIS are today's Khawarij.
Your "Crossroads of Arabia" is a nonsense blog written by an Islamophobe that knows very little about the ground realities other than parroting certain rumors, misconceptions and nonsense.
Anyway all that writing will NEVER change the fact that KSA Is the cradle of Islam and will remain so until the end of times and with all the responsibilities that come with that.
The West has always feared Arabs and the Islamic Caliphate/Empire that Arabs ruled for 1000 years. We have been the utmost rivals of Christendom for 1400 straight years. They don't fear any an ideology as much as Islam. They have not yet forgot the almost 1000 year long occupation of Iberia and other areas of Southern Europe (heartland of European civilization). Hence all the propaganda. Yet the West and Europe owes a hell lot not only to Arabs but our ancient Semitic ancestors from the ME too. Without both Europe would have looked much more differently and not for the better!
Of course there are also educated people that know the history and who do not have such an fear/hatred etc. of Arabs that a fake American "Jew" like you have.
PS: You must love the fact that 20% of Israel's population is Arab and that 60% of the Jewish Israeli population are Jewish Arabs or partial Jewish Arabs.
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