Tawhid Party to form ‘brigades’: Wahhab

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 09 Oct 2016
Tawhid Party Chief Wiam Wahhab announced Sunday that the party will soon form the Tawhid Brigades to prevent threats to Lebanon ... ....

Russ Baker on the Power Behind the Presidency, and Much More

Edit WhoWhatWhy 08 Oct 2016
How realistic is this story. A man who was a state senator just a few years before becoming president all of a sudden gains the expertise and vast knowledge to deal with complex, weighty global issues — many of them literally matters of life and death? ... Click HERE to Download Mp3 . Full Text Transcript. ... But look at Saudi Arabia, it’s the home of wahhabism which is an extreme form of Islam and it is the thing that foments jihadist....

France obeying US instructions in Iraq: Analyst

Edit Press TV 30 Sep 2016
  ...   ... “It is only the misguided blindness of some of these pathetic European leaders who do not have the wisdom or the strength to break out of the US stranglehold, these European leaders, these European countries are not being able to break out of that and see that they really need to be on the side of Assad in order to stop this Takfiri Wahhabism which is the prime cause of terrorism,” he said.  ....

Keep Central Asia stable & secular

Edit Deccan Chronicle 29 Sep 2016
The sudden passing of Uzbek President Islam Karimov earlier this month caught the headlines both in India and overseas ... The five CARs are predominantly Muslim-majority nations ... It is in India’s interest that this region continues to be a champion of secularism and tolerance at a time when much of the Islamic world is being buffeted by strong winds of Wahhabism and other forms of medieval religious beliefs ... ....

Congress thwarts Obama on 9/11 bill

Edit Albuquerque Journal 29 Sep 2016
The measure amended the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow for lawsuits against foreign nations in federal court if it is determined that they played a role in terrorist attacks that killed Americans on U.S. soil ... Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who co-wrote the bill with Sen ... Advertisement ... F ... Americans, he said, are concerned about the Saudi support for Wahhabism, a conservative strain of Islam that some terrorists embrace ... ... ....

Must They be Enemies? Russia, Putin and the US

Edit CounterPunch 29 Sep 2016
Most Americans know very little about Russia, and what they do know is subverted by many decades of U.S. government anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda. From 1917 to Dec ... Again, from the early 2000s increasingly until today Russia is depicted as a pariah state and danger to the U.S. and its allies ... I ... U.S ... 2. ... 6 ... The intention is to replace him with a follower of Saudi Arabia’s puritanical Wahhabism form of Sunni Islam, if possible....

Nasrallah: Wahhabism 'more evil' than Israel

Edit Topix 28 Sep 2016
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told followers that the ultra-conservative Sunni Wahhabism practiced in Saudi Arabia is more dangerous to Islam than Israel, according to Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper. "Wahhabism is more evil than Israel, especially [in] that it seeks to destroy others and eliminate whatever thing that has to do with Islam and its ......

Iran's courting of Arab Christians is nasty politics

Edit The National 28 Sep 2016
This has been combined with routine denunciations of Wahhabism, the interpretation of Islam practised in certain Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... Mr Zarif would deny such an intention, arguing that in his article he wrote that it was fellow Sunnis who were most "beleaguered" by Wahhabism....

In Saudi Arabia: Can It Really Change?

Edit The New York Review of Books 28 Sep 2016
But a crucial deal was made ... But for all his talk of theme parks, the only one near completion is Diriya, the reconstructed town outside Riyadh where his forefathers and the founder of the Wahhabis, Ibn Abdel Wahhab, sealed their pact in 1744 ... Dar al-Razi, a publishing house in Amman, Jordan, published his book, Preacher Not Prophet, a refutation of the “corrupting” tenets of Wahhabism’s founder, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab....

Q&A;: Why the U.S. has blessed a Saudi war against a small group of impoverished smugglers in Yemen

Edit The Dallas Morning News 28 Sep 2016
We've come to expect bad news from Yemen. Doctors Without Borders recently pulled staff from the northern part of the country after a Saudi-led airstrike on August 15 killed 19 people and wounded 24 at a hospital ... .. ... But they let him out and said, "OK, off you go to northern Yemen," and he set up a madrasa, sort of an academy, which over the years became a hotbed of extreme Wahhabism, which the local Zaidis didn't care for at all ... ....

Wahhabism even more evil than Israel: Nasrallah

Edit Press TV 27 Sep 2016
The head of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah says he considers the radical ideology of Wahhabism to be even more pernicious than the Israeli regime ... The Hezbollah chief said he considered Wahhabism to be responsible for damaging Islam’s image worldwide ... We should use this opportunity to pin Wahhabism down and deal a blow to it,” he added....

The head of Hezbollah has found someone he hates even more than Israelis

Edit Vox 27 Sep 2016
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of a group that has been fighting Israel for decades, declared on Tuesday that “Wahhabism is more evil than Israel,” Lebanon’s Al Akhbar newspaper reported. Wahhabism is the ultra-fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam that Saudi Arabia’s government promotes and that strongly influences the ideology of Sunni jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS....

Gloria Steinem: Toward a feminist foreign policy

Edit Open Democracy 27 Sep 2016
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work ... Photo. Niana Liu ... This was no orchestrated photo op ... women ... And so it happened that the mujahideen waged their brutal war with weapons supplied by the United States and, of course, Saudi Arabia—the birthplace of the doctrinaire interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism ... When U.S ... The UN ... ....
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