The doctrine (akida) of the Wahhabi school of thought (its second name – Salafism – is derived from the concept of as-Salaf-as-Salih, and refers to a group of righteous associates of the Prophet Muhammad whom the Wahhabis claim to follow) was established in the Muslim world by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab on the basis of the writings...

Building on his own knowledge of geopolitics, his extensive study of the historical roots of Islam and the basis for the intense hatred of the West which is shared by a dangerous segment of Muslim jihadists bent on our destruction, Chandler has penned an expose on radical Islam that all Americans must heed.

He did not express any surprise that the kingdom is being subjected to such attacks by those that he described as "enemies". He responded to those that describe Saudi scholars as "Wahhabis" by emphasizing that those that use this categorization claim that Wahhabism is "a group that is outside the Shariaa trend".

The new generation of Muslims is more religious. Unfortunately, since most of the mosques are either completely or partially funded by the Wahhabis, the new generation is also more radical. 20 years ago, Russian Muslims were completely assimilated, both culturally and linguistically.

In the broad spectrum of Islamic thought, Salafism is on the extreme conservative end. Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi interpretation is considered its forerunner, and Saudi preachers on satellite TV and the Internet have been key to its Salafism's spread.

Also, don’t expect the Saudis to slash the funds they give to their many agents of influence in Washington, on American college campuses and in the growing number of mosques taken over by Wahhabi clerics. Wahhabism is, of course, the extremist strain of Islam that has been imposed as the official and exclusive state religion/ideology in Arabia...

Al-Mansour met Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in the mid-1970s and formed a relationship that led to al-Mansour’s hiring as attorney to King Saud. He has since been an adviser to Saudi billionaires who fund the stealth jihad and spread Wahhabi extremism in America.

Madrassas are connected to their local mosque and incorporate secular subjects along with Islamic studies. Since 1973, wealth from oil revenues has allowed the Saudis to spread their totalitarian Sunni Wahhabi beliefs throughout the world by financing Islamic madrassas in Pakistan and elsewhere.

For example, it is no secret that Wahhabism is a radical Islamist ideology responsible for a great deal of the anti-Western violence produced in the Muslim world. Yet, in a CNN chatroom interview in 2001, Mattson stated that Wahhabism is "a reform movement" that "really was analogous to the European protestant reformation."

As I advanced in my first post-9/11 book, Future Jihad, the realist school—the classical Wahhabis and the Muslim Brotherhood—advocated a reserved attitude towards engaging the West militarily before being able to achieve strategic parity with the West.

The Salafists (Wahhabis or Muslim Brotherhood) can decide not to resort to Qital as long as they are making progress in changing the balance of power to their advantage. But as the balance is changing, they will move to the next stage and use all means at their disposal, including Jihadi Qital.

He responded to those that describe Saudi scholars as "Wahhabis" by emphasizing that those that use this categorization claim that Wahhabism is "a group that is outside the Shariaa trend". He said that this is falsification used by the proponents of "an ancient infidel principle".

For example, it is no secret that Wahhabism is a radical Islamist ideology responsible for a great deal of the anti-Western violence produced in the Muslim world. Yet, in a CNN chatroom interview in 2001, Mattson stated that Wahhabism is “a reform movement” that “really was analogous to the European protestant reformation.”

No. The Wahhabi idea in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban project in Afghanistan are attempts to spread an idealized and systematized version of village customs to an entire country. Wahhabi ideas don't respond to modern ideologies. In contrast, Islamism is the response by modern people to modern problems and ideologies.

Continuing yesterday's discussion on the role of Saudi funding in British mosques, Nina Shea of the Center for Religious Freedom sets Saudi Arabia's program of Wahhabi indoctrination into a global context following the Center's pioneering work examining the Kingdom's textbooks.

In fact, state sponsored export of Wahhabism has produced a global network of jihadist Islamic schools and institutions which sanctify violence. This has led to the creation of centers throughout the world nurturing terrorist cadres and incubating many of the suicide bombers who are at the forefront of terrorist activities.

The political and cultural environment of contemporary Saudi Arabia has been influenced by a religious movement that began in central Arabia in the mid-eighteenth century. This movement, commonly known as the Wahhabi movement, grew out of the scholarship and preaching of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, a scholar of Islamic jurisprudence...

Sunni Islam, the majority Islamic faith, is a religion of laws, of legal schools and jurisprudence. For Sunnis, God has made law for humanity to live. There are four great schools of the religious law in Sunni Islam. One of these schools is named for Ibn Hanbal (A.D. 780-855),...

Such individuals are easy victims for Wahabbis. It is easy for Wahabbis to pretend to people like Meydan that Wahabbism is true Islam and that life in Saudi Arabia is simply wonderful. Meydan is pious and wants to become more pious… and he does not seem to know a whole lot about the world, nor about (the history of) Islam itself.

The point on intra-Muslim fanaticism is a very strong one, especially if we consider that Saudi Arabia, main backer of the Makkah and Madrid conferences, is the stronghold of Wahhabism, a religious movement that has tried to exclude all other Islamic interpretations, whether Sunni or Shia.

Attending the Saudi-sponsored World Conference on Dialogue here last week and listening to a number of high-level Saudi officials espouse mutual acceptance among religions — and the necessity of opening their country up to the rest of the world — I was left with the odd sensation of having been a bit player in this movie before.

The term "Wahhabism" is commonly used to signify a belief in the legitimacy of violence in pursuit of Islamic ideals. The loose way in which it is frequently deployed in both Russia and Central Asia casts doubt upon the soundness of accompanying accusations, however. Formally, it refers to Sheikh al-Wahhab, whose teachings form the religious basis...

Textbooks used in schools across the conservative Muslim kingdom refer to Jews and Christians as apes and swine and attack other Muslims who do not practice a fundamentalist form of Islam, according to a report by US-based think tank the Hudson Institute.

Abdullah al-Turki is organizing the conference on behalf of the Muslim World League (MWL), where he is secretary general. The MWL was created by the Saudi royal family in 1962 to "promote Islamic unity" and spread Wahhabi doctrine. Wahhabism is an austere form of Islam that seeks to realize the faith as it was practiced by Muhammad and his Companions,...

This methodology implied an emphasis on the absolute oneness of God. Kitab at-Tawhid (the Book of the Unity of God) is one of Ibn Abdul Wahhab's most famous writings. A short collection of Quran verses and Hadiths, it highlights monotheism and provides religious excerpts de-legitimizing practices that had become common in the Arab society at the time,...

That distinction will eventually belong to the humble kingdom of Nejd, based in the oases in the center of Arabia. At its origins, a tribal state which derived its revenues from raiding and taxing caravans, Nejd has been associated since the 18th century with a religious movement referred to as Wahhabism in the West.

The Wahhabi camp within the twenty-thousand-member Saud family wants to reconstitute Islam, as it existed before 632, the year Muhammad died. They spent 140 years conquering most of Arabia and imposing their morality on it. The advent of effortless oil revenue in the 1930's gave them the aura of power and exponential growth.

ith this politically correct “wall of separation” in place little if any scrutiny is given to the information disseminated within any given religious institution. This directly facilitates the ideological advancement of Wahhabism, the most radical and puritanical form of Islam, within the mosques of the United States.

The contemporary Wahhabi movement is the modern outgrowth of a 250-year-old schism within Islam that was sparked by a radical evangelist named Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (1703-1792). Ibn Abdul Wahhab believed that Islam had been corrupted by countless errors and innovations,...

He believed that the destructive wars between Christians and Muslims were a challenge the Christian world could afford to do without and could not now ignore. He promoted the idea that Christians were more likely to have an influence on Islam from the inkpot than from the barrel of a gun.