Has Stephen Schwartz Spoken Justly About Wahhabism

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    Has Stephen Schwartz Spoken Justly

    About Wahhabism?

    They hate the spiritual side of Islam, orSufism, as much asProtestants grimaced at the worship of saints and miracles in theRoman church.

    - Stephen Schwartz, Terror and IslamExactly eleven days after the attacks of September 11, a UK based journal called TheSpectator carried a cover story by Stephen Schwartz, a self appointed anti-Wahhabiexpert, called Ground Zero and the Saudi Connection. In it, Schwartz states thefollowing aboutWahhabism: Above all, they hate ostentatious spirituality, much asProtestants detest the veneration of miracles and saints in the Roman Church.In another article entitled Terror and Islam, Schwartz, a sufi convert to the Naqshbandicult, is quoted as saying: Above all, they hate the spiritual side of Islam, orSufism, asmuch as Protestants grimaced at the worship of saints and miracles in the Romanchurch. It is indeed true thatSalafisdo not respect ostentatious spirituality with the meaningof pretentiousness and flamboyance. Since Schwartz has taken it upon himself to speakso much aboutWahhabism, it is a shame he did not read some of the works written by

    Salafischolars. Had he done so, he would have come across the many volumes of booksthey have written regarding the subject oftazkiatun-nafs (purification of the soul).Upon reflection of these statements, one wonders if Schwartz has actually ever picked

    up the Quran, as the whole Quran, from its beginning to its end, contains different kindsof exhortations to understand and implement tawhid(true monotheism), and the

    strongest admonitions to shun polytheism. Saint worship, including calling upon deadpeople, as practiced by a great number ofSufigroups, is from the most obviouscontradictions to a persons belief in Islam.Furthermore, in an article published by The National Review called Liberation, NotContainment: How to win the war onWahhabism, Stephen Schwartz compared

    Wahhabismto Nazism. In the same article, he also manages to compare it to Italianfascism. Not to be outdone by his own self, he proceeds to compare it to SovietCommunism because it recruits cadres worldwide. Lest he be accused of minimizingthe perceived condition of theWahhabis, he then compares it to Japanese militarism

    because it is utterly ruthless!!It seems that Schwartz severe hatred forWahhabismhas lead him away fromobjective journalism and into a childish frenzy of baseless insults.Exposing his lack of understanding, Schwartz refers to Wahhabized fringe groups likethe Taliban and Hezbollah, even though the straying Hezbollah are Iranian backedShiites and the Taliban are DeobandiSufis. In speaking about an anti-Wahhabiwar, hesays, Only in a world whereWahhabismhas been crushed can we hope for the survivalof world peace, and of a legitimate, peaceful Islam.Feigning to care about the fate of Islam and the Muslims, Schwartz confirms his

    journalistic ineptitude and lack of integrity by firstly muddling up the creed of thecontemporaryQutbistideology of Osama Bin Laden with that of the orthodoxSalafi

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    creed, and thereafter, concluding that the anti-Wahhabiwar should be fought in SaudiArabia, where the enemy is: The war against terrorism, too, must be fought where

    the enemy is, and that means the Islamic countries.Wahhabismhas declared a war tothe death against us, as the Nazis and Communists did. And we must fightWahhabismto the death, to secure not only our survival but that of Islam itself as a great religionand civilization. Bin Laden and his Saudi backers threaten to bring the world of Islam

    crashing down in flames as Hitler did Berlin. But just as we liberated the Germans fromHitler and the Japanese from Tojo, we can liberate the worlds Muslims from Bin Ladenand his Saudi accomplices. Due to these unbalanced statements, Schwartz can not be considered an objective criticofWahhabismby any means, nor should he be reffered to as an authority on Islam ingeneral.

    - abridged from the book: The Wahhabi Myth

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