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Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia who spent much of his career in Canada, says that most Sunni community centers in Canada receive Saudi funding. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, a Ph.D. student at McGill University's Institute for Islamic Studies, which specializes in the...
Al-Matroudi, of the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, is vehement that the government never attaches ideological strings to its overseas aid and does not promote Wahhabism abroad. "No, no, no," he says. "[We have] nothing to do with that at all. Our understanding is for our own country. These...
Once inside the country, says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "it's not hard for [infiltrators] to link up with fellow travelers." Sources inside the anti-U.S. resistance say foreign fighters have congregated west of Baghdad, in the conservative Sunni strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, where they receive shelter...
The new creed had no place for free will or human rights, let alone separation of mosque and state. Wahhab partook of a historically typical hostility toward Christians and Jews. But he was less focused on infidels than he was inward-looking and obsessed with orthodoxy: he wrote that jihad...
In a shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the...