http://comops.org/journal/2009/09/02/turning-up-the-heat-on-wahhabi-colonialism/ A Journal of the Consortium for Strategic Communication Sun, 20 May 2012 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://comops.org/journal/2009/09/02/turning-up-the-heat-on-wahhabi-colonialism/comment-page-1/#comment-398 COMOPS Journal » Police Power, Soft Power and Extremist Sub-culture in Indonesia Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:35:49 +0000 http://comops.org/journal/?p=1432#comment-398 [...] political violence to Wahhabi understandings of monotheism and ritual practice. As is stated in a previous posting, this is a serious and potentially dangerous mistake.  NII’s position is that Muslims who [...] [...] political violence to Wahhabi understandings of monotheism and ritual practice. As is stated in a previous posting, this is a serious and potentially dangerous mistake.  NII’s position is that Muslims who [...]

]]> http://comops.org/journal/2009/09/02/turning-up-the-heat-on-wahhabi-colonialism/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Ananymous Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:11:33 +0000 http://comops.org/journal/?p=1432#comment-378 Personal account from EGYPT. I was raised as a Muslim in Egypt in the Fifties. I left the country and lived away for the last thirty five years. Today, I do not recognize the religious practices of my close family who grew up in the Eighties influenced by returning Ikhwan who dominated campus life. Ikhwan, or Muslim Brothers, were exiled by Nasser in mid sixties and left to Saudi Arabia where they were indoctrinated in the Wahhabi sect. Sadat came after Nasser to a government dominated by pro-communist who schemed against the pro-Western Sadat. In order to counter the Communist, Sadat allowed Ikhwan to return from exile and even gave the state controlled media podium to their ideologues; such as, Sheik Sharawi. That was the beginning of religious intolerance against Egypt minority Christian Copts and the beginning of Wahabi cultural colonialism of Egypt. My personal experience is of a foreign student on a Western campus in the mid Seventies. When I arrived on campus, Muslim students worshiped in the basement of a local church; until they bought a small adjacent house and turned it into a Mosque that enjoyed the most friendly relations with the adjacent Church. That did not last long after the arrival of the Saudi Wahabi. They overwhelmed the Mosque Community with their incredulous deep pockets and they eventually bought the Mosque, fired the muslin Imam, or mosque leader, and installed their own, who preached Jihad and intolerance. The practices were so dogmatic, violent, that I felt they were repulsive and that is when I stopped associating with the mosque. I remember a friend from Saudi Arabia who once confided in me that "Egyptian are good, but you guys have to do something about those Copts." I found that repulsive. Personal account from EGYPT.
I was raised as a Muslim in Egypt in the Fifties. I left the country and lived away for the last thirty five years. Today, I do not recognize the religious practices of my close family who grew up in the Eighties influenced by returning Ikhwan who dominated campus life.
Ikhwan, or Muslim Brothers, were exiled by Nasser in mid sixties and left to Saudi Arabia where they were indoctrinated in the Wahhabi sect. Sadat came after Nasser to a government dominated by pro-communist who schemed against the pro-Western Sadat. In order to counter the Communist, Sadat allowed Ikhwan to return from exile and even gave the state controlled media podium to their ideologues; such as, Sheik Sharawi. That was the beginning of religious intolerance against Egypt minority Christian Copts and the beginning of Wahabi cultural colonialism of Egypt.
My personal experience is of a foreign student on a Western campus in the mid Seventies. When I arrived on campus, Muslim students worshiped in the basement of a local church; until they bought a small adjacent house and turned it into a Mosque that enjoyed the most friendly relations with the adjacent Church. That did not last long after the arrival of the Saudi Wahabi. They overwhelmed the Mosque Community with their incredulous deep pockets and they eventually bought the Mosque, fired the muslin Imam, or mosque leader, and installed their own, who preached Jihad and intolerance. The practices were so dogmatic, violent, that I felt they were repulsive and that is when I stopped associating with the mosque.
I remember a friend from Saudi Arabia who once confided in me that “Egyptian are good, but you guys have to do something about those Copts.” I found that repulsive.

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