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re: Its Goddamn Saudi Wahhabism and always has been
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:27 pm to crazy4lsu
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:27 pm to crazy4lsu
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The Sufis and lots of Islamic minorities are.
So what percentage of Islam is "moderate" in your opinion?
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You just mentioned the two countries that are the leaders of the Islamist movement, and whose antagonism toward one another drives the movement. KSA didn't start exporting Wahabism until the Islamic Revolution. The political ideology of Islamism is the problem.
That doesn't make one sect worse than the other. There is a race between the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood to spread their form of Islam and you are seeing the fruits of their labor right now. The "refugee crisis" is speeding up that process.
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Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:31 pm to GeauxLSUGeaux
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So what percentage of Islam is "moderate" in your opinion?
I have no idea. The moderate distinction is meaningless in this context because of the globalizing ability of the Saudis.
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That doesn't make one sect worse than the other. There is a race between the Saudis and the Muslims Brotherhood to spread their form of Islam and you are seeing the fruits of their labor right now. The "refugee crisis" is speeding up that process.
Muslim Brotherhood and the KSA are both Islamists, except the Muslim Brotherhood is Pan-Islamic while the KSA is Pan-Arabic. Both think the state should be organized around religion. There isn't a meaningful difference to Western eyes.
What should be done is to develop a balance of power in the region so that both KSA and Iran's interests are moderated. It seems we are all in on the KSA though, to our detriment.
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