More on Wahhabism

Just want to add that the Members of the Wahhābī call themselves "al-Muwahhidūn" = "Unitarians".


Since encyclopaedias refer to this as "Muslim puritan movement", just for clarfication, perception,
how do you define 'sect'?

Walter

When you asked the question I feared I had erred but a Google search for "Islamic sect of Wahhabism" revealed many articles and references using sect in the same manner. Try this as one example: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news1/an011022-07.html

I don't doubt that, perc, but what do YOU understand when calling a religious belief "sect"?

Walter

You can be particularly annoying at times----would you explain to me why you want me to give my definition of "sect". I have my suspicians but I would like you to explain your reasons.

Walter, we all know that as a member of the right wing, perception has difficulty discussing his "sects" life.

Delete

And this is news because? BTW, when are you going to learn how to post links without making the page twenty feet wide?

Tried to cut the damn thing in half but couldn't

Percy, have you read Jessica Stern? Scary stuff!

Hobit

Regarding Jessica Stern----when she starts her most recent article with this:

Yesterday's bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was the latest evidence that America has taken a country that was not a terrorist threat and turned it into one.

I find it difficult to take her seriously----as one of the reviewers of her book "Terror in the name of God" said---she's just another headline grabbing ambulance chaser.

I won't attempt to discuss her agenda with you because yours and my conclusions about terrorism and how to combat it are polarized in extreme opposites.

Senator Kyle in his article above expresses a more common sense approach which I agree with and I'm very glad he's in the US Senate instead of Jessica Stern.

perc -- when you are on the page for a post reply, you will see a button marked "URL" -- just copy the address into the first block and then it will ask you what title you want to give it on the second block.

LW:

That was an extremely long URL and my browser won't let me post anything or paste into that little URL box---so I gave up. I appreciate the suggestion though. Well try it again with something else later.