Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hakim Murad Timothy John Winter wrote, “I used to know, quite well, a leader of the radical ‘Islamic’ group, the Jama’at Islamiyyah, at the Egyptian university of Assiut. His name was Hamdi. He grew a luxuriant beard, was constantly scrubbing his teeth with his miswak, and spent his time preaching hatred of the Coptic Christians, a number of whom were actually attacked and beaten up as a result of his khuthabah. He had hundreds of followers; in fact, Assiut today remains a citadel of hardline, Wahhabi-style activism. The moral of the story is that some five years after … Continue reading A comment on radical Islamism

March 03, 2022 Source: Saudi Gazette Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman emphasized the Kingdom’s position with regard to Wahhabism as well as its tolerant and flexible approach toward both its Sunni and Shiite population.��In his interview with the American magazine “The Atlantic,” he reaffirmed that Ibn Abdul Wahhab is not Saudi Arabia.��“I would say that Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab is not a prophet, he is not an angel. He was just a scholar like many other scholars in who lived during the first Saudi state, among many political leaders and military leaders.”��”The problem at that time in the Arabian Peninsula … Continue reading Ibn Abdul Wahhab is not Saudi Arabia, reaffirms Crown Prince