Since the revolution, television sermons by hardline Salafi preachers targeting Christians are becoming more common.
They were, rather, critical comments on Salafi fundamentalism that is, on the very people who took offense.
Critics of the government say these salafi groups, including those advocating violence, have been allowed to run rampant.
On Sept. 14, several salafi groups converged on the U.S. Embassy, burning cars and destroying a nearby American school.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are now funding Salafi jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood.
People from the Caucasus "are often recruited in affluent European countries by representatives of the Salafi community, " Mr. Magomedov said.
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The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the more radical Salafi Islamist groups has unsettled many Christians in Egypt.
Obviously, from money that might have come from the USA. And also they have brokered a deal with Salafi jihadists.
It has been widely reported that police failed to intervene on several occasions when pro-democracy demonstrators were attacked by Salafi sympathisers.
On January 1st, American troops and Iraqi paramilitaries raided Baghdad's main Salafi mosque and arrested its prayer leader, Sheikh Mahdi al-Sumayda.
Right now, the equation is, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood Salafi jihadists, Egyptian military and the US on one side.
In February, a leftist politician, Chokri Belaid, was assassinated and the men eventually arrested were described as being linked to salafi groups.
Authorities in Tunisia say an Islamist militant has been killed in clashes between radical Salafi Muslims and police in the capital Tunis.
As a religious movement, Ennahda (which seems currently like a slow-motion version of more radical Salafi movements) is missing an extraordinary opportunity.
It makes clear the imam's affinity for the Wahhabi and Salafi doctrines.
Worryingly, however, the authorities in Tatarstan have responded to the July attacks with new laws, passed in August, aimed against the Salafi community.
Salafi Islamists had kept out of politics until the uprising that overthrew Mubarak, but have emerged as a potent force since his political demise.
In fact, Sudan was the host country for both Hezbollah and Al Qaeda in the 1990s and facilitated an alliance between the Shia and Salafi terrorist organizations.
Police had earlier arrested a Salafi Islamist accused of assaulting the head of Manouba's public security brigade during clashes between alcohol sellers and Salafists in Tunis on Saturday.
The Al Nour Salafi party has boycotted the Abbasiya protest.
Rizvan Kurbanov, the deputy prime minister in charge of security, says his first step was to visit a Salafi mosque and talk to its spiritual leaders, including Mr Magomedov.
Recently the Brothers have met representatives of the Sunnis' conservative Salafi movement and a handful of Sufi mystics at Baghdad's Um al-Qura mosque to form a State Sunni Council.
As former ambassador Marc Ginsberg states in his article last month, that he confirms evidence that the military is funding Salafi jihadists, the al-Qaeda style jihadists and the Muslim Brotherhood.
After all, the Salafi strain of Islam that gave birth to Al Qaeda has its seat there and most of Al Qaeda's cannon fodder seems to come from Saudi Arabia.
Al-Watan's founders include the former leader of the Nour Party, a hardline Salafi Islamist group that came second to the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in the last election.
Last year a group of young bearded Salafi men drove to the mountains for a picnic, stopping on the way in a small town where they were attacked by local Sufists.
One video features the preaching of Abd al-Hamid al-Juhani, who was an assistant to an al Qaeda scholar in Chechnya, and another features Feiz Mohammad, an extremist Salafi Lebanese preacher based in Australia.
In the meantime, the dreaded black Salafi standard is increasingly seen flying in the country, while the red and white official flag of Tunisia is often forcibly removed by the same zealous activists.
Hezbollah is a natural counter to the more feared Sunni radical Salafi jihadists who have become deeply entrenched in Tripoli (and rather less so in other Sunni areas), and are regarded as a loose cannon.
Though it isn't yet clear, Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have been embracing beliefs common among Salafi jihadis, the subset of Salafis who embrace violence and have gone to fight in warzones such as Iraq, Syria and Chechnya.
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