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2014-07-12 Africa North

Salafists Protest at Reopening of Algiers Synagogues

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Salafists

#1 Salafists and Wahabbis: Your Saudi Oil Money at work.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-12 06:33|| 2014-07-12 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Thomas Jefferson, I think it was, who took the first American swipe at the Wahhabis, at Tripoli. At least probably the Wahhabi-inspired. Pirates really, but with the classical Moslem edge. Wahhab was a contemporary of USA Founding Fathers and was reacting, after the Ottoman defeat at Vienna, to the existential question of how Islam could suffer a defeat of any kind. His answer: not puritanical enough, so, get puritanical on steroids. He had in view keeping out the European and probably also the American Enlightenments. In that he failed because soon enough Napoleon and then Nelson were stomping about in their boots on presumed inviolate Moslem soil. Then came Jefferson. Doughty. Allenby, Lawrence, Bell, Crane, Bush, Bush. Wahhab lost the argument. But as with descendants of puritanism in the USA and England, his never cease being [epithet, epithet, epithet].

Posted by TopRev 2014-07-12 19:09|| 2014-07-12 19:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I enjoy your insights and comments TopRev.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-12 19:54|| 2014-07-12 19:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Which is the primary reason Keith Ellison used Jefferson's Koran at his swearing-in; it was a f.u. moment.

Posted by Pappy 2014-07-12 21:45|| 2014-07-12 21:45|| Front Page Top

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