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Wahabbism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

Wahhabism is named after an eighteenth century preacher and scholar, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792).[16] He started a revivalist movement in the remote, sparsely populated region of Najd,[17] advocating a purging of practices such as the popular "cult of saints", and shrine and tomb visitation, widespread among Muslims, but which he considered idolatry, impurities and innovations in Islam.[5][18] Eventually he formed a pact with a local leader Muhammad bin Saud offering political obedience and promising that protection and propagation of the Wahhabi movement would mean "power and glory" and rule of "lands and men."[19] The movement is centered on the principle of tawhid,[20] or the "uniqueness" and "unity" of God.[18]

The alliance between followers of ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad bin Saud's successors (the House of Saud) proved to be a rather durable alliance. The house of bin Saud continued to maintain its politico-religious alliance with the Wahhabi sect through the waxing and waning of its own political fortunes over the next 150 years, through to its eventual proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, and then afterwards, on into modern times. Today Mohammed bin Abd Al-Wahhab's teachings are state-sponsored and are the official form of Sunni Islam[3][21] in 21st century Saudi Arabia.[22]

Estimates of the number of adherents to Wahhabism vary, with one source (Michael Izady) giving a figure of fewer than 5 million Wahhabis in the Persian Gulf region (compared to 28.5 million Sunnis and 89 million Shia).[22][23]

With the help of funding from petroleum exports[24] (and other factors[25]), the movement underwent "explosive growth" beginning in the 1970s and now has worldwide influence.[3] The movement is centered on the principle of Tawhid,[20] or the "uniqueness" and "unity" of God.[18] The movement also draws from the teachings of medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyyah and early jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal.[26]

Wahhabism has been accused of being "a source of global terrorism",[27][28] and for causing disunity in the Muslim community by labeling Muslims who disagreed with the Wahhabi definition of monotheism as apostates[29] (takfir), thus paving the way for their bloodshed.[30][31][32] It has also been criticized for the destruction of historic mazaars, mausoleums, and other Muslim and non-Muslim buildings and artifacts.[33][34][35] The "boundaries" of what make up Wahhabism have been called "difficult to pinpoint",[36] but in contemporary usage, the terms Wahhabi and Salafi are often used interchangeably, and considered to be movements with different roots that have merged since the 1960s.[37][38][39] But Wahhabism has also been called "a particular orientation within Salafism",[5] or an ultra-conservative, Saudi brand of Salafism.[40][41]


The essential guide to Potters House False Doctrines

Waymanite Doctrines That Are Harmful #5

Another one of Wayman’s doctrines that causes quite a bit of harm to people, and pain, is the doctrine of Shunning.
This has two parts. The first is shunning “the world.”
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? (NAS)
James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (NAS) These are two of the Scriptures that are twisted to mean what Wayman wants them to mean in regards to shunning “unsaved” people. The main function of this doctrine is to cut you off from those who might have enough influence over you, and might care enough about you, to get you to see through Wayman’s religious scam. Most of the timeit is the convert’s relatives who are shunned. Families naturally become concerned when they see their relative start to turn into a Waymanite zombie with a really weird speech pattern. The pastor quickly paints the picture of these concerned family members as being absolute tools of Satan to destroy the new convert’s salvation in Jesus. It is taught that the Devil is using family members to cause the new convert to stumble and backslide.

So, the solution is to get the convert to violently witness to family members, and make sure that the convert tells their family that they are going to hell. This becomes especially emphasized if the family is at all Christian. The convert’s family will be painted out to be lukewarm, and not “really saved,” and the convert will be told to turn up the fires of his or her witness. The frequent result of this is that the convert become alienated from his or her family, and ends up shunning family members, believing them to be under Satan’s power.

The above Scriptures do not teach this. They are simply saying that the believer has to maintain a moral separation from the world. The Christian doesn’t go to bed with the world, so to speak, but that does not mean that he shuns the non Christian people of the world, but rather shuns entering into sin with them.

1 Corinthians 5 -10 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. (NAS)

Paul clarifies his position here, concerning separation from immoral Christians, as opposed to the non Christian peoples of the world. Paul notes that the Christian believer would associate with various types of sinners in the world, the same way that Jesus did. There is nothing about cutting off people in the world because they are not Christain believers in any of the New Testament. Jesus did say that He would bring division to families, but the implication was that it would be the unbelievers who would have a problem with the believers, not the other way around.

https://croydongate.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/the-essential-guide-to-potters-house-false-doctrines/