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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-03 11:18 AM
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Do you agree with Pat Robertson about Wahhabism?
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Breeding Grounds of Terror, Part 1

By Melissa Charbonneau
White House Correspondent
September 25, 2003

The spread of Wahhabism is raising alarms in Congress.

CBN.com – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Islam may be the fastest-growing faith in America today, and it is finding eager converts in prison cellblocks nationwide. But with the increase in jailhouse conversions, some see a sinister threat — growing evidence that extremist Muslim chaplains, hired by the U.S. government, are preaching a hate-filled agenda in the name of Allah, and possibly turning American prisons into breeding grounds for future terrorists
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The rising concern involves U.S. government-paid clerics who practice a militant Wahhabi ideology, a strain of Sunni Islam rooted in Saudi Arabia, and favored by Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers.
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Stephen Schwartz, author of The Two Faces of Islam, said, "They dominate Islam in the prisons in a very intimidating way. They prevent Muslim prisoners from getting access to traditions in Islam that would be more beneficial for prisoners, that would stress meditation, self-discipline and non-violence."
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The spread of Wahhabism is raising alarms in Congress. In recent hearings, New York Senator Chuck Schumer said Wahhabis "have wreaked some degree of havoc" in his home state. He continued, "Wahhabism is an extremist exclusionary form of Islam."
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http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/030925a.asp

Is it politically incorrect to be concerned about the spread of Wahabbism in the USA (and the world)? I'm especially concerned because of the close association of Wahhabism with the ruling family of Saudi Arabia and its embrace of an extreme form of Sharia.

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