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Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism and the spread of Sunni theofascism - Part 1 : Comments
By Curtin Winsor, Jr., published 16/7/2007The Saudi Government has lavishly financed the propagation of Wahhabism - an alien, perverted version of Islam - throughout the world.
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The northern State of Nigeria, Kano, is a good case in point. A huge investment by the Saudi Wahhabi's in religious schools producing brainwashed zealous adherants.
In Kano, secular laws were replaced with harsh Shiara law leading to the worst bloodshed ever seen in the region between Wahhabis and the infidels - the Christians, animists, athiests and liberal Muslims.
Kano has seen extreme measures taken against people challenging their ultra-orthodox views. This ranges from boycotting health workers providing polio vaccines to bulldozing the venue for a lesbian marriage and imprisoning the women.
It's always an explosive social situation in societies when any religion is imposed by the State. The 20 year Civil War in Southern Sudan was sparked by such control attempted by the genocidal military dictator Bashir, with Wahhabist policies at the forefront of oppression and brutality.
Religious theofascists are usually tempted to seek the ultimate power in order that they can do whatever it takes to 'cleanse' society. Wahhabi graduates include the Taliban jihardists.
Centuries ago, Papal control through European Royals saw similar persecution and barbarity in the name of the one true religion. That tyranny ended when Royals became figureheads or were replaced entirely with elected representatives who ensured separation of church and state.
That's the step that freedom loving, young citizens of the Middle East need to take with our moral support through the internet and targetted international support to embolden them to throw off the theocrats' shackles. History CAN and DOES repeat itself.