But the issue is not about a single act of terrorism. It is about a philosophy (Wahabbist Islam) which, like Nazism, and Communism, desires to dominate the entire world, and brooks no other.
Even if you take that as a given, it is truly American-centric to associate Wahhabist Islam with 11-9-2001. The term was derived after a famous scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703 -1792), and has been the official form of Islam in Saudi Arabia since 1924. Further, Wahhabist Islam (or Muwahhidun, as its adherents prefer) has, in and of itself, nothing to do with world domination (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/wahhabi.htm).
In that, Huntingdon was right.
I understand that Samuel P. Huntingdon also argues that Hispanic immigration is undermining the United States.
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Date: 2004-10-05 07:40 (UTC)Even if you take that as a given, it is truly American-centric to associate Wahhabist Islam with 11-9-2001. The term was derived after a famous scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703 -1792), and has been the official form of Islam in Saudi Arabia since 1924. Further, Wahhabist Islam (or Muwahhidun, as its adherents prefer) has, in and of itself, nothing to do with world domination (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/wahhabi.htm).
In that, Huntingdon was right.
I understand that Samuel P. Huntingdon also argues that Hispanic immigration is undermining the United States.
I wouldn't give him any credence, if I were you.