Sami Angawi, a self-described Sufi leader of the Hijaz who criticized Wahhabism and the Saudi royal family at a Jidda lecture during Ramadan last December, and ...

Al-Qaeda and Islamist radicals voice real political grievances in religious terms. Bin Laden did not initiate Islamic militancy and it will not die with him.

Who are the enemies of Jihadists? That would be all of us in the western world, including Muslims of a more moderate persuasion that don't share the radicalized views of the terrorists. Sure, the Jihadists are hell-bent on annihilating the "infidels" or non-Muslims, but their targets really extend beyond that finite concept -- Radical Islamists have no qualms about striking in the Muslim world (Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, etc.) if it benefits their cause. Moreover, America, Israel and the e

Wahabis stayed in the background after WWII. They were thankful to the West for providing them help in exploring and exploiting its oil wealth. The problem first started with the Israel – Palestinian conflict. It galvanized the Mullahs and they began to preach anti Semitism, anti west and anti infidel message.

Chechen rebels fight because they want an end to the human rights abuses and policies emanating from the Kremlin, rather than because they have developed an affinity with Wahhabism or a belief in Osama bin Laden's wider cause.

Wahhabis believe laws laid down in the Koran, termed Shari’ah law, should be the way society is governed. Other moderate Muslims say official groups are spreading this literature, rather than a few individuals returning from the Middle East with books in their suitcase.

What accounts for al Qaeda's ongoing effectiveness in the face of an unprecedented onslaught? The answer lies in the organization's remarkably protean nature. Over its life span, al Qaeda has constantly evolved and shown a surprising willingness to adapt its mission. This capacity for change has consistently made the group more appealing to recruits, attracted surprising new allies, and -- most worrisome from a Western perspective -- made it harder to detect and destroy. Unless Washington and it

Islam once was at forefront of civilization. The author compares the glorious past and troubled present of Islam...

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — One humid evening in the lush garden of a villa belonging to one of Jidda's oldest merchant families, a select gathering of...

Democracy will prevail over terrorism, and Islam will be liberated from Wahhabism. Justice will be done, in the cases of Randall Royer and others. As always, truth is on the march.

Saudi spending to impose Wahhabism on global Islam, he noted, "is a combustible compound when mixed with religious teachings in thousands of madrasahs [Islamic schools] that condemn pluralism and mark nonbelievers as enemies . . . It needs to be dealt with."

I came away struck by the fact that these European Muslims, living in a remote and disregarded country, understand the truth about the Saudi/Wahhabi t

Wahhabism is the name given by the opponents, even enemies of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab to his teachings. Neither he nor those who agreed with

But while local Islamist leaders have often distanced themselves from Wahhabis, some still deny the damaging influence of the Saudi Arabian export. "I

Clearly, the agenda of the West is to silence all forms of debate and criticism of their policies within the Muslim world; such as the continuing occu

The symbiotic marriage between the Judeo-Christian West and Saudi Arabia, defender of the holy city of Mecca towards which 1.2 billion Muslims now bow

Strangely enough, Saudi embassies all over the globe have autonomous Islamic affair wings that promote the Saudi version of Islam. The embassy's relig

Avid enemies of freedom, individualism and secularism, the neoconservatives succeeded in passing the US Patriot Act which curbed civil liberties. They

"A growing body of accepted evidence and expert research demonstrates that the Wahhabi ideology that dominates, finances and animates many groups here

WASHINGTON — Even as they nurture a partnership with Saudi Arabia to smash Al Qaeda, U.S. officials are quietly investigating whether funds disbursed

If you were to ask 100 people from 100 different countries to define what a Wahhabi is, you would very likely get 100 different answers. This is becau

This question is justified because there does not seem to be any agreement on how terrorism is to be defined. Determining whether a certain activity i

The debate persists as to whether the state religion of Saudi Arabia breeds intolerance or is just misunderstood. Religious movements often originate

The new audiotaped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden, first broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV on February 11, is addressed to ``our Muslim brothers in