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  • noun a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia

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Examples

  • There is a curious disconnect between Kadyrov's attitude to "wahhabism" as an ideology and to the young militants who take up arms in its name.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

  • JP: "Is wahhabism a view that there should not be any separation of church and state or mosque and state?"

    Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives 2008

  • JP: "Is wahhabism a view that there should not be any separation of church and state or mosque and state?"

    Julian Porter cross-examines Andrew Rippin - Ezra Levant 2008

  • Khameni and Khatami will take over and this nonsense will stop. the real problem is saudi arabia. it has always been saudi arabia, and their exportation of wahhabism everywhere. they simply told the US the shiites must lose or we are switching to the euro, we will pump oil at over 100 a barrel, have China cash in its treasury bonds and then say goodbye US economy.

    Running With The Nuclear Football | Jewschool 2007

  • Devotional (bhaki/sufi) education is a must so as to give Dalits the sentimental-cum-devotional shakti to face down the juggernaut of Hindu fundamentalism, and the jihad of British-Saudi wahhabism.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • IIIb. islamic fundamentalism sunni muslim brotherhood wahhabism/salafism The Muslim Brotherhood, or Al Ikhwan Wahhabism/Salafism are terms used Al Muslimeen is a transnational Sunni interchangeably to refer to a particular movement, with no particular ideological brand of Islam.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows AlHaqqNetwork 2010

  • He single handedly did a lot to promote wahhabism in the USA and especially Connecticut, and thus far he has not yet recanted any of it.

    Atlas Shrugs 2009

  • Instead, Muslims in Britain imbibe the milk of exported Saudi wahhabism, wetnursed by fundamentalist imams from Pakistan.

    By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog 2009

  • December 15th, 2008 8: 55pm extremely well put Logdon, and for whatever reasons of incompetence, financial enrichment or crass ideological dishonesty, the results will be that Britain has been put on the list of world regions which are on the fault lines of Islamic bloody expansion and it is only a matter of time before the mayhem begins over here. and yet in the FO who paid notice to the likes of Haj Amin Al Husseini when he allied with Nazi ideology and incorporated wahhabism into the Muslim Brotherhood and forecast back in the thirties what is happening in the west today? it has always and is today plain to see.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • third, the only way to fight terrorism is with public transportation, cuz we get most our oil from Saudi Arabia and in the process give money to wahhabists wahhabism is a hardline sect of Islam which is what most the terrorists are.

    Afghanistan for Dummies 2009

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