In addition, many scholars and American Muslims said, the influence of Wahabism has faded because its inflexibility is ill suited to life in the United States and to the multiethnic mix of American Muslims.
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This paradox has contributed to the spread of different versions of religious practices and Wahabism, as well as political Islamism ( including movements such as the Taliban ) having a key presence in Pashtun society.
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Followers of Wahabism believe that their faith should be spread around the world and that they have a special obligation to defend Islam, with violence if need be, in countries where it is already well established.
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An official at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, who for reasons of personal security spoke only on condition that he not be identified by name, said it was incorrect and unfair to refer to Wahabism as a sect.
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Cultivation, production and trade of drugs, is an efficient sward at the service of the holy war ( Islamic Jihad ) against the western unbelievers, which is practiced by the true obeying of god, according to Wahabism.
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He was also a senior researcher and head of al-Jazeera Center for Studies, a think tank established in 2006 by the network al-Jazeera, often accused to be supportive of Wahabism and of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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A number of prominent religious scholars describe Wahabism as a particularly rigid minority Islamic sect that is intolerant of other forms of Islam, unwilling to accommodate other religions and likely to create a narrow view of the world among its followers.
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In Los Angeles, Levent Akbarut, a Turkish-American Muslim who sits on the board of an Islamic school, puts it more bluntly : " Wahabism is a dynamic from Saudi Arabia that has no relevance in American life.
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:The issue of gulf states, mainly Saudi Arabia financing new mosques to propagate Wahabism and Mosques as centres of Islamist activities is not being dealt with at all, as is the controversial role of mosques as focal points for political islam.
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To isolate orthodox Uighur Muslims, some of whom have been influenced by the extreme Wahabism of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Beijing is mounting a political re-education campaign for 8, 000 imams in charge of the region's state-sanctioned mosques.
