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2003-11-05 Africa: East

Mogadishu Warlords Help Americans Hunt for Terrorists

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Posted by Steve 2003-11-05 4:27:58 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Sunnis and the Shiites both hate the Sufiâs

Technically I don't think this is correct. Sufi's are Sunnis, so are Wahhabi's from Saudi Arabia. I think you mean the Wahhabi's and the Shiites both hate the Sufi's.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-5 4:59:04 PM|| 2003-11-5 4:59:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Wahhabis certainly consider the Sufi's anathema, because Sufi mysticism is explicitly one of the supposed corrupting elements Wahhabism was to purge from Islam. The Wahhabi inclination is to consider such backsliders as apostates and not Muslims at all.

The Shi'a probably just consider Sufi's Sunni's.

Other non-Wahhabi strains of Sunni thought would also be anti-Sufi for related or different reasons, but would probably accept them as Muslims.

And there are strict/conservative Sufi's and otherwise.

None of this is simple.

Posted by buwaya 2003-11-5 5:52:51 PM|| 2003-11-5 5:52:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn buwaya it sounds like a Baptist Convention.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-5 7:41:14 PM|| 2003-11-5 7:41:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Damn buwaya it sounds like a Baptist Convention.
Which Baptist: Apostolic, Southern, American, New Reform, etc.??? We Christians don't do badly with creating ideological splinter groups, either, and have no cause to throw stones...

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-5 8:08:24 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-5 8:08:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I hit a web site on Sufism that one of the Rantburgers recommended a while back. Sufism resemmbled Taoism to me in some ways. I could see a Peaceful government being run in a state where the majority of citzens were Sufi.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-5 8:16:55 PM|| 2003-11-5 8:16:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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