OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism
ISIS Atrocities Started With Saudi Support for Salafi Hate
By ED HUSAIN
AUGUST 22, 2014
(New york tImes)
ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islam’s birthplace.
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Let’s be clear: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram, the Shabab and others are all violent Sunni Salafi groupings. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has been the official sponsor of Sunni Salafism across the globe.
[FIVE DECADES! That's...that's almost half a century! Thank you for being clear Mr. Husain. Mr. President, is Ed clear?]
Most Sunni Muslims around the world, approximately 90 percent of the Muslim population, are not Salafis. Salafism is seen as too rigid, too literalist, too detached from mainstream Islam. While Shiite and other denominations account for 10 percent of the total, Salafi adherents and other fundamentalists represent 3 percent of the world’s Muslims.
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Okay, rough figures but that would be about 3,000,000 Salafists worldwide. Mr. President, if we are not at war with Islam but rather with Muslim perverts, in your opinion sir are we at war with at least 3,000,000 Muslims? That's a bit. That's a critical mass. 3,000,000 is about the size of the countries of Mongolia, Lithuania, Armenia, and Albania and the US states of Iowa, Mississippi, Arkansas, Utah and Kansas. Those are real places. Could we kill the Salafists at least?
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Now, on another Wiks page the following Salafi pop is given:
Worldwide there are roughly 50 million Salafists,[119] including roughly 20 to 30 million Salafis in India.,[120] 5 to 6 million Salafis in Egypt.,[105] 27.5 million Salafis in Bangladesh[121] and 1.6 million Salafis in Sudan.
That's a lot more perverts. 50,000,000 is the size of South Korea and Burma, the states of California and Ohio combined. In cities, 50,000,000 is the combined pop of Tokyo/Yokahama Japan and Szhenzhen China combined. That's a bunch. 50 mil is a bunch of peoplez.
Worldwide there are roughly 50 million Salafists,[119] including roughly 20 to 30 million Salafis in India.,[120] 5 to 6 million Salafis in Egypt.,[105] 27.5 million Salafis in Bangladesh[121] and 1.6 million Salafis in Sudan.
That's a lot more perverts. 50,000,000 is the size of South Korea and Burma, the states of California and Ohio combined. In cities, 50,000,000 is the combined pop of Tokyo/Yokahama Japan and Szhenzhen China combined. That's a bunch. 50 mil is a bunch of peoplez.
