Radical Islamism & Jihad *How Abd Al Wahhab turned a great religion like Islam on its head? <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1274>*
It is difficult to understand how a single rough Bedouin from Nejd, one of the most impoverished areas of central Arabia, could turn a great religion like Islam on its head. …Mohammed Abd Al Wahhab, born about 1703, not only redefined Islam in a puritanically narrow and intolerant way but injected into it such a virulent hatred for its perceived enemies that this vicious creed could revive again and again after being repeatedly wiped out to rise like a phoenix and become the single greatest threat to world peace today. Wahhab demanded total surrender to the Supreme Being Allah disallowing any ceremonies, including ceremonies for marriage or death, or worship of any saints, adorning of graves, tombs or other sacred objects, holding religious processions and wanted all Muslims to wear simple clothes without colours or ornamentation and demanded the total suppression of women. He denounced art, music and dance though he permitted obedience to spiritual guides or `pirs’. -- *Murad A Baig* More...<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1274> Islam and the West *Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise: Heading for the Final Frontier <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1273>* Early signs are not good when it comes to the latest Obama-led *Ameriprise*. Our spaceship of state still seems remarkably addicted to phasers and photon torpedoes, an addiction we refuse to own up to, even as we send one variety of our own spaceships, which we call unmanned aerial drones, over the tribal lands of Pakistan and Afghanistan armed with Hellfire missiles. We also refuse to admit that we're an imperial power, even as we build new military bases along the final frontiers of our planet, while our military seeks "full spectrum dominance" from the deepest oceans to "the shining stars and beyond" <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174928> (as one U.S. Air Force advertisement recently put it). We demonize our enemies, turning them into so many Romulans, aliens who are incapable of understanding anything but the blunt, unsparing use of force. … In the long run, we may well be able to reject naked barbarity and lust for power. But can we resist the power of our own illusions, of the notion that, despite missteps, mishaps, and mistakes, we're always a force for good in the world? Can we affirm our own Prime Directive -- a reversal of our Monroe Doctrine that defined our boundaries in a different age and time -- and vow not to meddle in the affairs of others? For our *Ameriprise* has its limits, as well as its own pressing problems to solve. -- *William Astore* More<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1273> Radical Islamism & Jihad *The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat? <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1258>* So although the Shiite Islamists are far from being a non-problem – given the wilayat al-faqih's development of nuclear weapons, its control of the instruments of power of the Iranian state, its control of Hezbollah, and so on – I don't believe it has the long-term staying power that the Sunni Islamists do. If the members of the wilayat al-faqih look out on the horizon, I think they ought to be able to see the storm clouds gathering just as Reagan and Moynihan saw them gathering for the Soviet Union. And they ought to have the same attitude toward them that a reasonably perceptive inhabitant of the Kremlin in the mid-1980s or a perceptive inhabitant of Versailles in the mid-1780s would have had – namely, that the storm is not overhead yet, but they ought to be able to see it coming. But due to the combination of the oil wealth of the Gulf, the compatibility of the Sunni Islamists' support for the Caliphate and the history of the Caliphate in Sunni Islam, the long-term objectives of the Wahhabis – I believe the Sunni Islamists present an extraordinarily serious ideological threat. And the reason I always say "Islamist" is that I mean to connote precisely a totalitarian movement masquerading as a religion. We do not in retrospect need to accept Torquemada's claim that his life, which repudiated everything that the Sermon on the Mount preached, was emblematic of Christianity or that he represented Christianity, and we do not need to accept the Wahhabis' claim that their hatred is emblematic of or represents the great religion of Islam. -- *James Woolsey* More.<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1258> -- Syed M. 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