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2005-10-19 Arabia

Saudi Columnist: Jihadist Salafist Ideology is Like Nazism

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Interesting piece, but not what it seems on first glance. On the surface it appears he's condemning "extreme" Islam, which we would likely presume includes Wahhabism, a rather dangerous thing to do publicly in SaoodiLand. But that's not the case. Two points... First, the Saudis don't think of the Wahhabi flavor as extreme at all - it's "normal" to be a Wahhabi in WahhabiLand, lol. Second, his actual complaint and charge is against internal attacks, attacks against Arabs, Saudis, Wahhabists, who are, in his view, less "extreme" and, thus, infidels to the super-duper pious Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya. He's stating the standard House of Saud position. They are pious Wahhabis. They're just not pious enough for these "Islamonazis". So they're victims and these guys are "terrorists".

How cold is cold? If you can't tell the difference between -50Â° and -60Â° - does it matter? Not a helluvalot - both will kill you - you just freeze a little bit faster.

Wahhabists may not be as "extreme" as the Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya flavor, but both have, as far as we're concerned, the same end goal. From a Western POV, it's rather fascinating that they focus on their "less pious" co-religionists first - and it's definitely comical to hear the Wahhabis squeal about "extremists" and invoking the Nazis to paint themselves as innocents, victims.

Nazis? Both qualify, actually. I'd like to fry them both up.

Popcorn?

Posted by .com 2005-10-19 02:14|| 2005-10-19 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Oops, lost the close italics tag.

Posted by .com 2005-10-19 02:15|| 2005-10-19 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice comment ^00^

Posted by Flit 2005-10-19 04:54|| 2005-10-19 04:54|| Front Page Top

#4 interesting comment.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-19 10:44|| 2005-10-19 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with Dot com.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-10-19 13:52|| 2005-10-19 13:52|| Front Page Top

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