Looks like you fell for the terrorist propaganda bait !
also, how about the MANY demonstrations that he has held where he and his 'people' chant 'DEATH TO ISRAEL' DEATH TO AMERICA'.
Care to explain that?
Maybe in Iran, death to Israel means "We hope Israel will give the 'Palestinians' their land back, but if not, we will be angry at them'
I'll explain, but I doubt you have the attention span to stay interested.
I am afraid you'll need to provide a source for your assertions. I am sure there have been grass roots level protests by Muslims that you have seen on the news led by assorted fundamentalist clerics, but you probably wouldn't know if they were Sunni or Shia.
Something like this I assume?
Tens of thousands march in the Lebanese capital against Anti Islam video - YouTube
Inflammatory rabble rousing and mass political psychology. Tens of thousands huh? Maybe the number might be inflated a bit? Added to that, you don't even know who the cleric has political affiliations to or if he is being fronted.
Yeah, you're real good at spotting propaganda, aren't you. They call it programming for a reason.
Although this piece is heavily biased toward foundation and establishment politics, it cuts through the clutter of
propaganda.
The Salafi Moment - By Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy
The Salafi notion of returning to the purity of 7th-century Islam can have the same kind of draw for some Muslims exasperated by everyday corruption and abusive rule. Syria offers a good example. If you're going up against Bashar al-Assad's helicopter gunships armed with an antique rifle and a few rusty bullets, you'll probably prefer to go into battle with a simple slogan on your lips. "Power sharing for all ethnic groups in a liberal parliamentary democracy" might not cut it -- especially if you happen to be a Sunni who's seen your relatives cut down by Assad's murderous militias. This isn't to say that the opposition is now dominated by Salafis; far from it. But it's safe to assume that the longer the war goes on, the more pronounced the extremes will become.
At the same time, the Sunni Salafis are a major factor in the growing global polarization of the Islamic community between Shiites and Sunnis. (The French scholar of Islam Olivier Roy argues that the intra-Muslim rivalry between the two groups has now become even more important than the presumed confrontation between Islam and the West.) The fact that many Salafis in various parts of the world get their financing from similarly conservative elements in Saudi Arabia doesn't help. Perversely enough, Iranian propaganda is already trying to portray the West as backers of Salafi extremism in order to destabilize Tehran and its allies. We'll be seeing a lot more of this sort of thing in the future, I'm afraid.
In short, no one should count on the Salafis to go away any time soon. So how should the outside world deal with them -- especially if they're going to go around storming foreign embassies?
Now this is interesting. So how should the outside world deal with them? The author of this political elites piece opines as if those who know what is going on have the power over these "radicals." (I guess you would have to read the piece.) Perhaps because he is not a victim of the propaganda and knows something you don't?
Let's turn to more native interpretation, a "confessional," if you will, about the truth and the founding of the Brotherhood. You should invest some time and do some reading.
http://www.salafipublications.com/sps/downloads/pdf/MNJ180008.pdf
In more recent times it has become more clear that elements, or offshoots of the Brotherhood (such as the groups of Jihaad and Takfeer like al-Qaidah, at-Takfir wal-Hijrah and others) are infiltrated and manipulated to bring about geo-political destabilisation, and this is more so amongst the aggressively takfeeree and revolutionary splinter groups. That these elements are infiltrated (and often directed covertly) by intelligence agencies into subversive actions that help formulate and justify foreign policy and geo-political strategy is no hidden fact, and there are many examples that lend support to this observation. How unfortunate it is that many beguiled youth of the Ummah, in their fascination with the Jihaadee, Takfeeree movements, thinking them to be the vanguards of Islaam, do not realise the true realities, the roots of all this fitnah tracing back to an Iranian Zindeeq, al-Afghaanee, who was the “Godfather” of the Muslim Brotherhood, from where all this fitnah has emerged.
Some western writers also allude to Sayyid Qutb being a Freemason, who – just like Iranian Ali Shari‟ati and his father Aqa Muhammad Taqi Shariati, a Freemason, played an intrumental role in fermenting the Iranian Revolution – was either employed, manipulated or used to bring about an ideological and physical revolution to destabilise and remove Jamal Abd an-Nasser, who had become dangerous to British and European interests in the Middle East, and who had become a figure that brought together Arab anti-colonial sentiment, and unity amongst Arab states, along nationalistic lines. There are no available facts to support that Qutb was a Freemason, either pre-1940s or post-1940s16. Given the collection of all the events which saw the involvement of the CIA, MI5 in countering the up and coming nationalist movements with socialist trends (Pakistan‟s Bhutto, Iran‟s Shah, Syria‟s Assad, Egypt‟s Nasser, Libya‟s Ghaddafi), some writers have concluded that his ideology was helpful and very highly appropriate for that time (given the political circumstances), especially Egypt, when Jamal Abd an-Nasser caused fever in the British Establishment, when he took to modernizing and industrializing Egypt along nationalistic lines, bringing about Arab nationalistic revivalism, as well as being victorious in the Suez crisis – all of which had great significance to the balance of power in the region.
And finally, to get a better idea of the distinctions about the different interests involved. Don't forget the close ties Arabia has with the Anglo-American alliance
Understanding the Origins of Wahhabism and Salafism
The Jamestown Foundation ^ | July 15, 2005 | Trevor Stanley
archived here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716986/posts
Origins of Salafism
Salafism originated in the mid to late 19th Century, as an intellectual movement at al-Azhar University, led by Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1839-1897) and Rashid Rida (1865-1935). The movement was built on a broad foundation. Al-Afghani was a political activist, whereas Abduh, an educator, sought gradual social reform (as a part of daÂ’wa), particularly through education. Debate over the place of these respective methods of political change continues to this day in Salafi groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
The early Salafis admired the technological and social advancement of EuropeÂ’s Enlightenment, and tried to reconcile it with the belief that their own society was the heir to a divinely guided Golden Age of Islam that had followed the Prophet MuhammadÂ’s Revelations.
The name Salafi comes from as-salaf as-saliheen, the ‘pious predecessors’ of the early Muslim community, although some Salafis extend the Salaf to include selected later scholars. The Salafis held that the early Muslims had understood and practiced Islam correctly, but true understanding of Islam had gradually drifted, just as the people of previous Prophets (including Moses and Jesus) had strayed and gone into decline. The Salafis set out to rationally reinterpret early Islam with the expectation of rediscovering a more ‘modern’ religion.
In terms of their respective formation, Wahhabism and Salafism were quite distinct. Wahhabism was a pared-down Islam that rejected modern influences, while Salafism sought to reconcile Islam with modernism. What they had in common is that both rejected traditional teachings on Islam in favor of direct, ‘fundamentalist’ reinterpretation.
I don't watch propaganda, or listen to it, I read. And I read many many different sources using empirical facts arriving at an explanation that makes the most sense. If division, hatred and discord are your bag, my sincerest condolences. If you want to learn and see the world as it is, not how powerful organizations of ruling elites would have you see it, be my guest.
Mark Twain - "
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
yeah, right. You're pretty shifty when you don't source your claims.
