While none of these groups and movements were 100% Wahhabi originally, their ideological differences were insignificant.
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The Wahhabi sheiks work tirelessly to spread their brand of Islam to Muslims everywhere.
One reaction to this has been a growing opposition among the small but more Islamist Wahhabi community in Malindi.
Significantly, the FBI witness, Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Larry A. Mefford, avoided mentioning Wahhabi influence in his testimony.
However, the Saudi scholars who are Wahhabi have denounced terrorism and denounced in particular the acts of September 11.
But he doubts that Sufism can be marshalled to resist Wahhabi radicalism, a phenomenon that he insists has political, not religious, roots.
Early on in the Wahhabi ideological campaign, the penetration of the Muslim communities in non-Muslim Western societies was made a key priority.
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It makes clear the imam's affinity for the Wahhabi and Salafi doctrines.
These are the self-appointed guardians of Saudi Arabia's dominant Wahhabi faith, a puritanical strain of Islam from which the royal family derives its legitimacy.
Following the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Muslim Brotherhood became part of the international Wahhabi infrastructure, with the Saudis providing sanctuary and support.
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King Abdullah has said Saudi Arabia's top clerics, who like the ruling family are from the hardline Wahhabi trend of Sunni Islam, have authorised his interfaith approach.
While most Malians are Muslims, the majority belong to the Sufi sect, not the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam followed by the Ansar Dine and Mujao rebel groups.
Most of the skepticism over Iranian involvement with al-Qaeda has centered around the fact that Iran is ruled by a Shia Islamic theocracy, whereas al-Qaeda is a Sunni Wahhabi Islamic group.
Qatar, where the strict strand of Wahhabi Islam is predominantly observed, wants to retain a conservative Arab culture rooted in Islamic traditions where women are often veiled and arranged marriages are common.
This cavalier attitude is absolutely stupefying insofar as two years ago this month, the New York Police Department issued a report warning that Wahhabi mosques in America were incubators for "homegrown" Islamic radicals.
Response from the Wahhabi Lobby so far is typical: a combination of (1) hiding from reporters, (2) complaining that the alleged spies were being picked on because they are Muslim, and (3) changing the subject.
Treaty talks came to nothing, and the British withdrew their protection, opening the way for Ibn Saud, the king of the Nejd, to conquer Hussein's kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and launch Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.
While many black Muslims follow a divergent strain of Islam, Vickers found a home in the Wahhabi-connected AMC and served as its executive director from June 2002 until February 2003, after he left the American Muslim Alliance.
As noted previously, Saeed created an umbrella group, the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), to unite other members of the "Wahhabi Lobby, " including the American Muslim Council (AMC), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
Those who know Mr. Sharif well say that while he is devout, he follows the gentle Barelvi form of Islam that is traditional in Pakistan, not the hardline Wahhabi ideology spread by Saudi Arabia, where he spent part of his years in exile.
Some observers date the rise in religious observance back even further, to the 1980s, when guest workers in Saudi Arabia from across the Muslim world began returning to their own countries, re-importing with them the strict Wahhabi subsect of Islam for which the desert kingdom is known.
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