Know thy Enemy

What do Wahhabists believe? The following is taken from "Gods Terrorists" by Charles Allen.

1. Belief in one man's reading of the Quran and the Hadith, and a determination to bring about a theocracy based exclusively on those beliefs accompanied by a rejection of all other interpretations.

2. Absolute devotion, formalised by the swearing of an oath, to a single authority figure who is both religious leader and military commander, Imam and Amir, often accompanied by the belief that this leader has quasi-divine abilities.

3. A perception of that figure as the natural heir to the caliphs of early Islam, if not an Imam-Mahdi figure heralding the final great battle against Islam's enemies.

4. A belief in Millenarianism - the notion that the end of the world is fast approaching, and with it the triumph of Islam.

5. An us-and-them mentality, whereby all who hold other religious views are seen as heretics and thus fair game for violent suppression.

6. A recognition of jihad as one's prime duty, but ignoring jihad akbar (the Great Jihad) in favour of jihad kabeer (the Lesser Jihad), interpreted as nothing less than holy war.

7. The making of a symbolic retreat before beginning the jihad, so replicating the Prophet's hijra from Mecca to Medina.

8. The wish to return to a past golden age of Islam, together with a rejection of modern learning and technology (except where this can be used to further jihad).

9. The recruiting of young male followers from among the poor and ignorant (preferably prepubescent orphans), subjecting them to long periods of intensive and exclusive religious indoctrination while keeping them isolated from other sources of ideas.

10. The promotion of the death-wish mentality in which the status of Shahid (martyr) is exalted as the ultimate goal of every jihadi.

Mr. Allen is actually discussing Indian Wahhabism in the 1820's, but anyone who has been paying attention over the last six years will know that what we face all over the globe is exactly this. Its a shame the common terminology has become imprecise; the press variously use Islamists, Islamofascists, Muslim Extemists, Muslim Fundamentalists, Wadudists and any number of other terms. But Wahhabism has been around for 600 years, and that ten point list has not varied a jot since it was first devised. In this new war we find ourselves in, a war with a million fronts and none; it is of prime importance to know our enemy as clearly as possible. Our enemy is Wahhabism, and its twin founts are the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. History shows us that both of those places have long associations with Wahhabism, and are still the spiritual home of the cult.

Prosyletisers have gone forth from those places all over the world infecting mainstream Islam with the Wahhabist cult teachings. If we don't stop them, if mainstream Islam doesn't stop them, the whole world WILL be at war with Islam. Except it won't really be Islam at all- it will be the sour, bitter hateful fruit of Ibn Taymiyya and his suicide cult.