Salafism takes its name from the term salaf ("predecessors", "ancestors") used to identify the earliest Muslims, who, its adherents believe, provide the epitome of Islamic practice.
-Wikipedia.
Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islam – and, particularly in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse offensive jihad against those they deem to be enemies of Islam as a legitimate expression of Islam.[5]
Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islam – and, particularly in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse offensive jihad against those they deem to be enemies of Islam as a legitimate expression of Islam.[5]
-Wiks
Mr. President, are Salafi Jihadis who preach that offensive jihad is a "legitimate expression of Islam" Muslim extremists?
Salafi jihadists distinguished themselves from salafis they term "sheikist", so named because—the jihadists believed—the "sheikists" had forsaken adoration of God for adoration of "the oil sheiks of the Arabian peninsula, with the Al Saud family at their head".
-Ditto
Mr. President, if what your friend Thomas L. Friedman says is true, that your friends the Al Saud family have "lost control" of the Salafists who preach their "literal" version of the Koran, that sucks does it not sir?
