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To: epicure who wrote (2144)	9/29/2002 6:46:09 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

the roots of the Wahhabi movement go back much further than Mr. Wahhab So does yours, but the defining moment when they become a political force was in the 1770's. And yes, I think 1770 is more recent than 612 A.D. I think most people would consider an event 230 years ago more recent than an event 1158 years ago. "The most successful modern militant Islamic movement, which drew its ideological inspiration from Ibn Taymiya is the Wahhabi revolution that created Saudi Arabia in the Arabian peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a fundamentalist sheikh who preached religious reform, forged an alliance with a local village chief, Muhammad Ibn Saud, to overturn un-Islamic practices that had become prevalent among the peninsula's population. As with his ideological ancestor Ibn Taymiya, Ibn Wahhab fought Muslim rulers who he believed failed to implement a pure form of Islam. Between 1773-1819, the Saudis and the Wahhabis united to conquer the Arabian peninsula, and found the Saudi Kingdom. Today's Saudi Arabia, was established through a reconquest of these lands in the early 1900's by Bedouin tribes that had been mobilized by the radical Wahhabi preachers, and organized as the Wahhabi Brotherhood. After the successful creation of the modern day kingdom, King Abdelaziz Ibn Saud, the first modern Saudi Arabian ruler, was forced to suppress the radical Wahhabi Brotherhood, which continued their crusade to reform Islam in the fundamentalist Wahhabi vision. Although it was founded by the radical Islamic Wahhabi clan, Saudi Arabia's ruling regime is on of the most popular targets for today's militant Islamists, including several Saudi citizens. Radical Islamists point to corruption by the Saudi princes, the personal practices of the ruling elite, and the close association with the un-Islamic United States as some of the reasons that the regime must be overthrown, in favor of a more pure, fundamentalist form of Islam. The roots of this opposition to the Saudi regime can be found in the original Wahhabi ideology, as well as the radical brand of Islam advanced by troops of teachers that came from Egypt to Saudi Arabia during the 1960's. Fleeing Nasser's purge of the Muslim Brotherhood (see below), they found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were given jobs in all parts of the educational system except the official theology departments. Thus, the Egyptian Muslim Brothers spread their message of radical Islamic revolution throughout the kingdom." hadassah.org