Formerly a frequent visitor to Madina, he went less often, troubled by Wahhabi polemic against paying too much attention to God’s messengers.

After one intense session with a Wahhabi, whose blindness had veiled from him my own orientation, I had to detoxify myself by taking a long walk, breathing deeply, and repeating thousands of prayers upon the Holy Prophet.

Forms of neo-Wahhabi or Wahhabized ideology have been powerful in Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood) and in Pakistan — in both countries neo-Wahhabis lead attacks on other Muslims and other faiths.

Wahhabi extremism and terrorism continue to plague Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, although its real supporters in these countries are few in number.

The involvement of 15 Saudis out of 19 hijackers reflects an inevitable outcome of Wahhabi ideology, not a special tactic by Osama bin Laden.

Instead of representing growing Wahabi power, the Sept 11 attacks and their aftermath in Afghanistan may signal the peak of Wahabi influence, and a turning point in Arab attitudes towards such extremists.

When the big oil money of the 1970s started flooding the Gulf region, the balance in
religious matters shifted away from the progressive Levantine version of Islam that
existed in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria, to the Wahabis' rigid tendencies.

Since its beginning, Wahhabism relied on the ideas of a Muslim scholar, Ibn Taymiyyah, who called for a return to "real Islam"...

The British had a vested interest in the continued destabilization of the Ottoman
Empire, and saw the Wahhabis as a vehicle to that end. The Empire's support
for the cause lasted for about half a century.

Like the other mullahs, Ahmed was
concerned about the spread of extremist Wahabi Islam in a region whose inhabitants have traditionally practiced a moderate and tolerant form of Sunni Islam. Just how moderate was shown when these elderly clerics greeted me, an unrelated woman, by shaking my hand -- a gesture that would be unthinkable
to many religious Muslim men.

Everywhere I went were mosques easily identifiable as Saudi-financed -- stamped neatly on their whitewashed walls were the Roman letters IIRO and the Arabic words for
International Islamic Relief Organization...

The courageous Reyes, who claims that his life has been repeatedly threatened by Wahhabi extremists in Barcelona, insists that 'we must consider why the prayers of these Wahhabists are not answered. In Algeria they pray every day for the destruction of the government, but their prayers are refused. In Afghanistan, they
pray for the defeat of America, but their prayers are refused. In Egypt they pray for
the death of Mubarek and the Christians, but their prayers are refused. If they claim that they are the kind of Muslims that Allah loves, they should look at their hands, and ask themselves why their prayers fail.'

A Wahhabi Saudi sheikh warned young people not to speak English ... and screamed: 'This is the language of the infidels, to the point where it has the word 'blease' ['please'], which is derived from iblis [Satan]. This is the language of the devil...'

Wahhabism attributes great importance to the [outward] forms of Islam - growing a beard, ankle-length garments for men, and the requirement to use toothpicks instead of the satanic Western  toothbrush.

I say that this Wahhabism is incapable of ...  spreading the values of tolerance that Islam has set out... this Wahhabism leads ... to the birth of extremist, closed, and fanatical streams, that accuse others of heresy, abolish them, and destroy them. The extremist religious groups have moved from the stage of Takfir to the stage of 'annihilation and destruction'..

Saudi Arabia's petrodollar boom of the 1970s following the quadrupling of oil prices led to Saudi Arabia becoming  a major influence in the promotion of Wahhabi doctrines in the region.

Among the key findings of the report... various Saudi government publications gathered for this study, most of which are in Arabic, assert that it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping them in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations...

Saudi government foments religious hatred in U.S.

February 7, 2005, Chicago Sun-Times

What is happening in some American mosques, including a few in the Chicago area, is deeply disturbing. In certain Islamic schools, textbooks spit vitriol against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims: "Be disassociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion." In mosque publications, America is the "Abode of the Infidel." The idea of human and civil rights is heresy. Working women are immoral.

These views are extreme, they promote violence and they are being espoused right under our noses. We knew this was happening in France, Germany and England but we didn't know the extent of the problem here. It is not happening in all mosques or Islamic schools, by any means, but in those select ones funded by the Saudi government to disseminate the fanatic Wahhabi-style Islam that has its demagogic roots in Saudi Arabia.

06/23/2003, Volume 008, Issue 40, The Weekly Standard

According to Iraqi sources inside the country who insist on anonymity, Wahhabi imams in the Fallujah mosques, as well as dozens of agitators from Saudi Arabia, have begun aggressive preaching of suicide bombings against coalition forces as part of a campaign of guerrilla warfare.

One mosque where Freedom House researchers found evidence of Saudi Wahhabi skullduggery is three miles from where the World Trade Center used to be. Muslim newcomers to America are told Wahhabism, the official creed of the Saudi kingdom, is the only true religion. Anyone who doesn't conform to the postulates of Wahhabism is an apostate.

Beginning in 1979, after the revolutionary Shiite clergy in Iran overthrew the monarchy and panicked the Saudi royal family, Wahhabi "missionaries" were given a free hand and countless billions to spread their anti-Shiite faith all over the world. Beginning in 1989, following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Wahhabi clergy began funding Pakistan's madrassas, Koranic schools where hatred of America, Israel and India is taught to this day.

Arnaud de Borchgrave

UPI Editor at Large

Published 8/10/2004 - Tech Central Station

More and more American Muslims want the Saudi-financed terror jihad, and the Wahhabi lobby that speaks for it in this country, off their backs. Organizations like CAIR have been enabled by American media, and even by some government organizations, to monopolize the Muslim side in the American debate over terrorism. Now, the Wahhabi lobby may be cracking up.