Originally Posted by
JTaylor
I cited Wahhabism as an example of a sect within broader Islamist ideology, where Shari'a Law is percieved as the legislature of God and Western infidels' innate belief that law should be the product of reason is considered a crime punishable by death.
Wahhabbism, is not a sect, in my opinion. It is a term coined by people who dislike the teachings of Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhaab as I previously mentioned.
Originally Posted by
JTaylor
It seems my initial optimisitic response to your post was premature as, having condemned Qtabism, you then go on to espouse the virtues of Wahhabism. Rather than criticising Islamism, you're criticising one form of it in order to promote another.
I didn't praise whabbism, as I don't consider it as any more than a term used by people who loosely relate it to terrorism without any source or evidence.
Originally Posted by
JTaylor
The nuances and jostling for position are besides the point. Both wish death upon the West, they're simply fighting over which means to this end is correct.
Initially attractive, but ultimately dangerous, much like the Trojan horse.
Please see below a transcription of a talk given by someone who has written many explanations of the works of Shaykul Islaam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhaab.
The esteemed and late Shaikh Muhammad bin Salih al-'Uthaimin of Saudi Arabia stated, during a tele-link in the evening of Friday, 28th July 2000, to an audience in the city of Birmingham, UK:
... Likewise I invite you to have respect for those people who have the right that they should be respected, those between whom there is an agreement (of protection) for you. For the land in which you are living is such that there is an agreement between you and them. If this were not the case they would have killed you or expelled you. So preserve this agreement, and do not prove treacherous to it, since treachery is a sign of the hypocrites, and it is not from the way of the Believers. And know that it is authentically reported from the Prophet that he said,
Whoever kills one who is under and agreement of protection will not smell the fragrance of Paradise.
Do not be fooled by those sayings of the foolish people, those who say "Those people are Non-Muslims, so their wealth is lawful for us (to misappropriate or take by way of murder and killing)." For by Allaah - this is a lie. A lie about Allaah's Religion, and a lie about Islamic societies.
So we may not say that it is lawful to be treacherous towards people whom we have an agreement with.
O my brothers. O youth. O Muslims. Be truthful in your buying and selling, and renting, and leasing, and in all mutual transactions. Because truthfulness is from the characteristics of the Believers, and Allaah - the Most High - has commanded truthfulness - in the saying of Allaah - the Most High -
O you who believe - fear and keep you duty to Allaah and be with the truthful
And the Prophet encouraged truthfulness and said,
Adhere to truthfulness, because truthfulness leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. And a person will continue to be truthful, and strive to be truthful until he will be written down with Allaah as a truthful person.
And he warned against falsehood, and said,
Beware of falsehood, because falsehood leads to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Fire. And a person will continue lying, and striving to lie until he is written down with Allaah as a great liar.
O my brother Muslims. O youth. Be true in your sayings with your brothers, and with those Non-Muslims whom you live along with - so that you will be inviters to the Religion of Islaam, by your actions and in reality. So how many people there are who first entered into Islaam because of the behaviour and manners of the Muslims, and their truthfulness, and their being true in their dealings.