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Muslim commenter Sheema Khan in the Globe and Mail writes -
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A few weeks ago, a local community leader shared the disturbing spectre of the rise of the salafist movements overseas in Tunisia and Egypt. Whereas before the salafis shunned all political participation, they took advantage of the post-Arab Spring tumult to forcefully stamp a hardline approach on wider society. Muslims who do not agree with them are labeled as disbelievers. There is no middle ground.
The concern is a spillover of the salafist trend to Muslim institutions here, as the hardliners vie for influence over local communities. Before, they were content to remain insular. And make no mistake they are looking to bring youth into the fold, away from the decadence of teen culture.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/as-canadian-muslims-we-must-stand-up-to-threats-from-within/article11496517/
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)while hating everything about that society that they CHOOSE to live in.
There are plenty of places in the world they could live more to their liking.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)The mosque Tamerlan visited in Dagestan was Salafi.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Salafis gain influence because they have financed the building of enumerable mosques in the West.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)This ideology says that everyone except their sect are disbelievers, even other muslims.
I wonder if their videos have some kind of hypnotic techniques (or maybe the repetition of the propaganda has an effect on susceptible minds).