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One advice open a history book and stop believing in western propaganda your whole theory is flawed.Salafi is the new way of describing wahabism.
Wahabism is the Saudi ideology that is spreading all over and is the intolerant one that talks of everyone being infidels apart from them.
The reason we are hearing the word Salafi is because the Westerners and especially Saudi Arabian king does not want the real word to be used. Wahabism which is the jihadist extremism one. If we were to use the correct term Wahabism it would attract attention to saudi Arabia and the Wests connection to extremism.
They prefer to label it Salafism and therefore no one will question the link to Wahabism and then the further link then to Saudi Arabia and the support of the West for such an ideology.
It's a deceitful way to use the word Salafist when we really want to be using the word Wahabi to describe extremists.
You will not see any Western media use the real word Wahabism but here in the region the Arabs know the difference and use the correct term for extremists. Wahabis like Bin Laden. Saudi indoctrinated. 80% of the US mosques are now funded by Saudi Wahabi clerics!
Wahabsim is the extremist ideology funded by Saudi in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
One advice open a history book and stop believing in western propaganda your whole theory is flawed.
Its pretty insulting to call Salfi's and Whabi's extremist most of the so called "Terrorist" who are misinformed Sunnis label themselves as Sunnis btw.
If you want i can share information regarding the subject without a biased view on it.
The descendants of Abdul Wahhab, the Al al Sheikh, are still chief of the ulama, the religious advisers to the Saudis. The unitarians see no separation whatever between church and state and so the King of the Saudis is also their Imam (spiritual leader).
Within sixty years the puritans controlled most of what is Saudi Arabia today including the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina. The zealots imposed their will on their citizens and the pilgrims and destroyed what was not to their liking such as hookahs, musical instruments and human portraits.
In 1818 the Ottoman Caliph retaliated. Mecca was seized; Diriyah the Saudi capital was laid waste, the inhabitants of Diriyah and Riyadh were left to starve and the Saudi ruler was beheaded.
In 1871 the Turks again smashed the renascent Saudis and it was not until 1902 that Abdul Aziz Bin Saud, known in the west as Ibn Saud, conquered Riyadh with forty men.
In 1912 a revival of Wahhabism led to the formation of a religious settlement at the village of Artawiyah, 300 miles north of Riyadh under the auspices of the Ikhwan, the Brotherhood. Artawiyah soon grew to a town of ten thousand population, of former bedouins who now devoted their time to farming and to the Qur'an. They enforced attendance at the mosque by whipping those who did not go; they whipped shopkeepers who did not close during prayers. Even today automatic teller machines are switched off during prayers. They forbade moustaches longer than the Prophet's, and banned music and smoking. They killed Christians, and even Muslims who did not recite the Qur'an nicely.
Ibn Saud took control of the Brotherhood and in 1916 ordered all his Bedouin tribes to emulate Artawiyah. They were given instructions in Wahhabism with Ibn Saud as their king and Imam. The Ikhwan became a fanatical fighting machine and on the 25th May 1919 had a fearsome triumph over the much superior Hashemite force at Turaba, sixty miles from Mecca. Even Ibn Saud feared for the lives of the Meccans and had to disband the Ikhwan.
In 1924, a band of three thousand Ikhwan looted and burnt the town of Taif, killing three hundred townsfolk. Not having seen mirrors before, they smashed all that they could find.
After the massacre at Taif, Ibn Saud forbade further looting and murder and by 1926, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina and indeed most of Arabia fell, comparatively bloodlessly, into Saudi hands.
Ibn Saud no longer needed the Ikhwan. The crunch came when the Brotherhood attacked the Egyptian hajji of 1926. Accompanying them was a noisy brass band which offended the puritanical sensitivities of the Ikhwan. Ibn Saud's response was to clear them out of the Holy Places back to their desert settlements of which there were about one hundred by now.
The Ikhwan were not pleased with what Ibn Saud allowed in the state. Instead of banning tobacco he increased taxes on it. In January 1927 Ibn Saud had to confer with three thousand odd Ikhwan with the ulama as adjudicators. The zealots raised the fact that Prince Feisal was visiting infidel England, Shiism still flourished in the Kingdom, Christian and Satanic contraptions such as the telegraph were being installed. While the ulama was sympathetic to many of these views they ruled that the calling of a jihad was up to the Imam, Ibn Saud.
The Ikhwan, still determined on jihad, raided across Saudi borders butchering men, women and children and herding back their animals. Transjordan and Iraq formed defence corps backed by British armored cars, radios and aeroplanes. Unable to raid outside of Saudi Arabia, the fighting turned inwards against other Wahhabis. Their moral strength dissipated and Ibn Saud with an army of loyalists met the rebel Ikhwan near Zilfi.
Ibn Saud was magnanimous in victory and allowed the rebels to return home. Several times they tried to rebel again but Ibn Saud used "Christian contraptions" such as motor cars against them. By 1930 the Ikhwan armies were completely demolished.
Nevertheless the ulama was still Wahhabist. Ibn Saud was able to demonstrate that the radio was a medium for Qur'anic verses, and insisted that his photographs be displayed. Football was legalized in 1951 but alcohol which had been available to non-Muslims was banned in 1952. In 1956 a strike was made a punishable offence and trade unions and political parties were banned; Two hundred strikers were arrested and three leaders were publicly beaten to death.
In 1957 King Saud banned women from driving. This of course is not shariah as no cars existed in Muhammad's time. The reason given is that a properly dressed woman could not change a tyre, talk to traffic police or other drivers. Probably the main reason, however, is to control women's movements especially in the light of Muslim obsession with female sexuality.
The King allowed in U S troops as part of a Training Mission on the proviso that it be free of Jews and that Christian ceremonies were forbidden. In 1962 there had been about thirty thousand slaves in Saudi Arabia but pressure by the United Nations eventually brought about the abolition of slavery, despite opposition by the fundamentalists.
In 1965 the Wahhabis led a violent demonstration against the King's decision to set up a T V Service in the kingdom.
In 1966 the King was embarrassed by articles in the newspapers written by the Vice-President of the Islamic University of Medina. He had evidence that Copernican theory was being taught at Riyadh University. Three hundred years earlier the Christian theologians had to concede that the earth went around the sun and not vice versa!
The religious police (Mutawain) armed with batons searched homes for alcohol, smashing dolls, record players and movie projectors, beating the bare calves of European women, knocking cigarettes out of mouths of people smoking in public.
In 1967 the sale of Christmas trees was banned, segregation of the sexes at schools was set at age nine, which was the age for girls to start to wear the veil. The King was forced by the Wahhabis to sack the Minister of Information for "offensive" programs on the very much censored T V service: even Mickey Mouse could not give Minnie a little peck.
Wahhabism is just Sunnism on steroids! I've been to Saudi Arabia many times and I don't think what they practice is Islam. Why can't women drive or go out in public by themselves? What does this have to do with Islam?
Quran [16:116] And do not say, as to what your tongues falsely describe: "This is lawful and that is unlawful;" that you seek to invent lies about God. Those who invent lies about God will not succeed.
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Wahhabism is just Sunnism on steroids! I've been to Saudi Arabia many times and I don't think what they practice is Islam. Why can't women drive or go out in public by themselves? What does this have to do with Islam?
Woman do work and young males can go to malls i am not sure where you heard this kind of information but its false. I know personally people who live in Saudi..I've also been in Saudi Arabia, and what i didn't liked was the fact that they don't let women enter in some restaurants.
Other than that, i don't know their rules very well.
Just that women can't drive, can't really work, and that young males can't go to the malls.
That is clearly not Islam.
Maybe you can tell us more about what you saw in Saudi Arabia ?
Woman do work and young males can go to malls i am not sure where you heard this kind of information but its false. I know personally people who live in Saudi..
What does THAT mean?
I've also been in Saudi Arabia, and what i didn't liked was the fact that they don't let women enter in some restaurants.
Other than that, i don't know their rules very well.
Just that women can't drive, can't really work, and that young males can't go to the malls.
That is clearly not Islam.
Maybe you can tell us more about what you saw in Saudi Arabia ?
They would treat me like an animal as well because I'm Indian. Well until I pull out my US passport anyway, then they kiss my ***.
Medina however, really good people overall. Don't get me wrong, there are great people in Saudi Arabia as well. But they're in the minority.