Posted on Fri, May 7, 2010 at 13:20 pm CEST
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Saudi Arabia and the Rise of the Wahhabi Threat

Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form – a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam. Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of… Continue reading

Topics: Saudi Arabia • The Middle East • United States of America • Wahhabism • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Tue, December 1, 2009 at 20:39 pm CET
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Taliban, Image War and Iconoclasm

When the Taliban destroyed the ancient, massive Buddhist rock-wall sculptures a few months ago, a number of Muslims sent around petitions urging the world to see how dangerous the Taliban were. These monuments had survived the Mongols and other invaders, and had coexisted with centuries of Islamic civilization… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • Taliban