In this Critical essay, Hamid Algar, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the rise of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, arguing throughout that it has seriously distorted the fundamental teaching of Islam and functioned for decades as the ideological mainstay of the...
March, 2018
February, 2018
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5 February
The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam: Iconoclasm, Destruction and Idolatry
This book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to...
December, 2017
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13 December
Denmark Bans another Saudi ‘Hate Preacher’ to Enter Europe
Saudi cleric Abdullah bin Radi Almoaede Alshammary was added to the Danish list, which already included 10 other “hate preachers,” Danish paper Jyllands-Posten reported Tuesday...
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10 December
A Critique of ISIS’s Brutal Thought
The brutal inhuman acts of ISIS and Takfiris in coldblooded murder of civilians (including children, women, elderly, etc.) is totally incompatible with recommendations of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh & hp) and by no means a...
November, 2017
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28 November
Inheritor of Yazid Intents on Repeating the Story of Karbala
The current inheritor of Caliph Yazid bin Mu’āwīyya’s political mantle is Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the impetuous crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is also thirty-three years old. He seems intent on repeating the story of Karbala and promoting a fight to finish the Shia in the Middle East just as...
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22 November
A Review on Destroying the Graves by Wahhabism & ISIS
A look at the history of Graves destroying by Wahhabism terrorist Group
October, 2017
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25 October
Saudi Hadith Complex Ploy to Spread Wahhabism
A senior Lebanese Shia scholar described a plan for creation of a “complex’ for Prophet’s Hadith” in Saudi Arabia as a scheme to distort Islam and spread Wahhabism...
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9 October
Book: Wahhabism and Monotheism
Had an educated Wahabist known that his supreme jurist-consult Abdul Azeez Bin Baz state that "Allah the Elevated is a material corporeality existing in a form of a human being in a certain place in this universe having a face hand leg limbs and organs and that His Throne is carried by...
September, 2017
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26 September
Saudi Scholars and Clerics Allowed to Preach Hatred against Shia: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has permitted government-appointed scholars and clerics to incite hatred and discrimination against the country’s religious minorities, including Shia...
August, 2017
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5 August
The West and International Terrorism
It is important to tell the truth. Terrorism in its various manifestations is generated and fomented by the aggressions of the West throughout the...
