History of Wahhabism/Extremism
Abel
September 11th, I think that this is a very appropriate discussion to
have.
What do all these people have in common? The followers of Al-Qaeda
(from Osama bin Laden on down), the ultra-conservative rulers of Saudi
Arabia (from King Abdullah Al-Saud on down), the Taliban (from Mullah
Omar on down), Nidal Malik Hasan (the Fort Ord Shooter) and the
American born radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki (who lives overseas,
running a web site that promotes jihad against America), the Somali
goons who made a gruesome display of dragging the mutilated bodies of
our soldiers thru the streets of Mogadishu (back in October of 1993),
and also what do all those suicide bombers, you know all the endless
series of suicide bombers who have very bloodily been targetting
innocent people, and they have especially been targetting innocent
religious worshippers, especially women and children in such places as
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. What do all these organizations and
their people have in common? What do all these extremely dangerous,
extremely sick, and extremely violent mass murdering Devils have in
common?
They all belong to a very conservative sect of Islam called Wahhabism,
based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, who comes from
Saudi Arabia. What he advocates is a purging of Islam towards the
most conservative element possible, and away from what he considers
the more liberal elements of Islam. Although Wahhabism is a very
small minority of a subset of Islam, within the majority Sunni branch,
it is, nevertheless, the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
Having the world's largest oil reserves, and following the Arab oil
embargo of 1973, when the price of oil skyrocketed back then, what
this led to is a sudden and vast infusion of wealth that the Wahhabi
leaders of Saudi Arabia fully exploited, along with their control of
the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, this is how, by accident of
history, that the Wahhabis happened upon the most ideal base possible
and the widest funding possible for all of their Wahhabi missionary
activities. The Saudi rulers then began to spend billions of dollars
throughout the Islamic world promoting Wahhabism.
Wahhabism, however, is only a very small minority sect within Islam's
major Sunni branch, marked by extremism, intolerance and violence.
One of their most famous and controversial attacks was in the holy
city of Karbala, In Iraq in 1802. There, according to a Wahhabi
chronicler, "[Wahhabis] scaled the walls, entered the city ... and
killed the majority of its people in the markets and in their homes.
[They] destroyed the dome placed over the grave of al-Husayn [and
took] whatever they found inside the dome and its surroundings. ....
the grille surrounding the tomb which was encrusted with emeralds,
rubies, and other jewels. .... different types of property, weapons,
clothing, carpets, gold, silver, precious copies of the Qur'an."
Employing terrorism as a means of spreading their Wahhabi idealogy is
nothing new. In the past, they constrained their attacks mainly upon
other Muslims. But on September 11th of 2001, they attacked America,
when a group of Wahhabis, most of whom come from Saudi Arabia,
attacked the World Trade Center in New York city. So as not to
confuse Islam with Al-Qaeda, keep in mind that Al Qaeda has killed far
more Muslims than they have killed non-Muslims.
Freedom House is an organization that promotes human rights and
democracy (linked below), based in Washington, D.C., it routinely
conducts exhaustive research on democracy and human rights thru out
the world. Several studies conducted by Freedom House found Wahhabi
publications preaching that Muslims should not only "always oppose"
infidels "in every way", but "hate them for their religion ... for
Allah's sake", that democracy "is responsible for all the horrible
wars of the 20th century", and that Shia and certain other non-Wahhabi
Muslims were infidels.
The harsh rhetoric not withstanding, what's important to note,
however, is that the vast majority of Muslims and the vast majority of
Mosques are not under Wahhabi influence. However, Muslims and non-
Muslims alike should thoroughly scrutinize the Freedom House study
(linked below), it highlights an ugly undercurrent that exposes the
roots of a particularly virulent form of extremism. What is even more
important to remember when it comes to the subject of extremism, an
open and candid discussion is the best way to debunk these extremist
views rather than a suppression of the First Amendment rights
guaranteed by our Constitution.
Abel Malcolm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House & http://www.freedomhouse.org
& http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=70&release=379
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/anwar_al_awlaki/index.html
& http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/clinton/essays/biography/5
uragoner
life....... The God of the Bible has different plans....
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and
the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Islam is the 6th woe put on mankind from the greatest deciever as your Koran
admits.... you call him Allah, the Bible calls him Lucifer, the god of this
world,
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who
is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Revelation 9:13 詛nd the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels
which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a
day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand
thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them,
having breastplates of fire,*(suicide vests) and of jacinth, and brimstone:
and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their
mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(fatwas,edicts and all the other
virulent violence that foams out of the mouths of clerics, and imans (as
toads out of their mouths in another place))
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the
smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails
were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk
Islam the false prophet of Revelation 16:13, and here in the book of Daniel
in the Old Testament. Beware those who have been decieved by this falehood.
Daniel 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the
desire
of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
(Mohammed)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom
his
fathers(Abraham and the true Prophets) knew not shall he honour with gold,
and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things (Mosques).
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god (Allah),
whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them
to rule
over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him:
and
the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into
the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land (Israel), and many
countries
shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom,
and
Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land
of
Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and
over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians
shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him:
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to
make
away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in
the glorious holy mountain(al aqsa in Jerusalem,oh yes and the dome of the
rock...it did say tabernacles didn't it); yet he shall come to his end, and
none shall help him.
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