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Barry web it is August 29th and today is
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the first day of a new series examining
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some of the various organized splinters
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offshoots sex from Islam where there
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must suddle variations may lead to an
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understanding of subtle differences in
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the extent to or the way in which they
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are dangerous I’m looking forward to
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just go right ahead okay tonight what I
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want to do just give our listeners kind
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of a brief introduction into some of
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these movements I’ll start with the
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earliest one and that is the so called
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Wahhabi cult which began in central
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arabia in 1745 actually might say it
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actually a little bit earlier because
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the founder of this cult Muhammad bin
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Abdul Wahab was actually he was born in
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1703 I think it was and by the time he
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was in his 20s which would be you know
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ascendant the 1720s he was already
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writing his religious excuse me his
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religious books expressing his opinions
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on now totally the unity of Allah all
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that stuff so that was actually the
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beginning of that movement that it
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didn’t really gain any traction in the
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region there should be in the what they
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call mine edge to central Arabia region
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he actually lived in a valley yeah
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whadya honey for just north of what is
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now modern-day Riyadh but I really began
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to take off in 1745 because at that time
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Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab made a
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historical deal with a ruler of a small
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town in the what if an ephah I called ed
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area and the ruler of that town was a
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person named Muhammad bin Saud which of
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course marks the beginning of the Saudi
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dynasty Saudi la made was that
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henceforth all of the religious leader
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we come from the descendants of Muhammad
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bin Abdul Wahab and all of the political
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leaders of that region would become
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would come from the descendants of
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Muhammad bin Saud and once having made
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that agreement they both begin now they
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joined together to to you know
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proselytize the strict version of Islam
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that Muhammad bin Wahab taught coupled
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with military jihad against those who
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didn’t you know go along with it now he
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he believed that he didn’t preach them
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the intervertebral isn’t it we see later
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his main goal seems to have been to
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purify Islam from within in other words
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two arias Lama sighs all of the
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so-called Islamic societies what you
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might call a reformer yes yeah very good
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way to put it
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yeah that’s written yes that the Greeks
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have bailed because you know today a lot
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of people are talking about Islamic
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Reformation what if Islam has already
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been reformed and I think that was the
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first I started with with Muhammad bin
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Abdul Wahab and his movement and he was
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Sunni of course and his writings had a
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lot of influence on Sayyad Gupta and
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Hassan al-banna and formation in the
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Muslim Brotherhood okay I did a
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comparative study on say at the bukuvu
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Muhammad bin Wahab and they’re almost
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identical
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he was even some of the same words in
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Arabic in describing out the necessity
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of jihad and the importance of you guys
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why which are the race for the purpose
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of booty and spreading Allah’s word okay
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I can’t think of any other weapon there
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really isn’t much to recommend it most
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people not that many people I think
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would convert to
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unless the choice was that or death or
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slavery yeah we’ve had a lot of people
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in the West that are doing you exactly
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that but anyway that’s just a brief
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introduction of the Wahhabi doctrine
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we’ll get into that more detail in
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future discussions the next one I want
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to bring up is the duo bandy cult which
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began almost in the same time as the
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Wahhabis 1747 Apple I think was the date
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they got started and they rose out there
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rose up primarily as a reaction to the
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British takeover of India so it was more
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of a nationalist movement at first than
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it was any concept of Universal jihad
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you know across the planet that was to
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come later now another important figure
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that came out of Pakistan is a fella
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named matt duty who is contemporaneous
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with hassan al-banna and say a pool
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table and the doom and ease and amount
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of duties by the way also Rajah and most
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of Pakistan ashiya it smell duty and
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that’s where I have a Koran that’s
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translated by Maya duty would that be
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the same fella
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probably yes yes yes he spoke English
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like yes because this is a mau d Koran
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yeah it’s it’s a really quite a good one
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at seven it doesn’t pull any punches
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pretty straightforward yes yeah and he
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believed in you for spreading Islam
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around the world he in fact he believes
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that the entire universe and everything
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in it is a Muslim by the even the
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planets and the rocks in the rivers
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everything because they are obeying a
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laws divine law therefore by definition
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Muslim the only entities in the entire
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universe that aren’t Muslim are us go
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far oh well I guess that makes their job
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pretty straightforward now the Deobandi
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other people have told me they are one
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of the absolute nastiest sects of Islam
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is that is that consistent with what you
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know about them and do bandy teachings
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yeah now I don’t know they were
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primarily uh nationalists and their goal
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was independence from Great Britain now
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this is my duty character that I
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mentioned he was like service
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contemporaneous with shit go to band
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hustla bana and they have changed idea
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so his ideology is basically the same as
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the Muslim Brotherhood he also taught at
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some of the Deobandi schools so he had a
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lot of influence on the Deobandi
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movement now
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when the Brits pulled out of India and
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they initiated their Commonwealth ideas
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from had anyone who lived in what was
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once part of the British Empire could
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yeah but they were pretty citizens good
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and could move to the British Isles know
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that eh yeah without you know being
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considered to be foreign immigrants
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whatnot and so a lot of these do panties
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and ended up in the UK and then
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subsequently in Canada in the United
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States as well now over time like I said
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they picked up my bootys teachings which
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were virtually identical to say kudos
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and hustla bana so well they originally
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coded CUDA site could have broke among
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other things milestones which is
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credited as being the inspiration for
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the creation of the reformist movement
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the Muslim Brotherhood is that about
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right well actually no hustle Obama
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actually created levels of brotherhood
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in 1928 say a blue table did not become
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the Muslim Brotherhood member until 1951
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after he had returned for the United
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States that’s when he became a
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fundamentalist began studying Islam and
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and the Brotherhood he joined the
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Brotherhood then and he wrote a lot of
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other works of course but his major work
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is one called
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in Erik Fievel – on which means in the
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shade of
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go on and it’s a huge multi-volume
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Exorcist
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of the entire Quran every single verse
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of a con and the the then later after
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God of prison he wrote their wife said
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when I was in prison he wrote what part
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of then it was published you know later
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because he died in prison actually their
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so-called milestones or signposts along
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the road was a summary of the larger
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work under the shade of the Quran and so
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I think it’s a larger work that actually
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had the influence on modern jihadi
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groups not just the Brotherhood but all
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of you know like the wild had a nice is
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all Shia all boxes me all Sunni all
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modern Sunni terrorist groups have
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gotten their information from safe food
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tube and his writings and what what
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other sort of splinter groups I mean I
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think it’s important that people get to
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know these names of these groups so that
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when they they they can be a little less
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easily fooled when they hear oh no this
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sector these guys are great they really
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this was the real Islam they believed in
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you know meditation and there we go as
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long as the rent Aslam of muhammad bin
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Wahab say abdullah saleh bana and my
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duty that is the real wa sallam oh I got
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a couple more points I want to make and
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we mentioned how a while hasil baños and
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Gupta were influenced by Muhammad bin
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Wahab said Cordoba Hassan al-banna were
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also influenced by mount duty and vice
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versa so in a sense Muhammad bin muhabba
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also indirectly influenced my duty and
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therefore the Deobandi cult also because
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the the hope a Pakistani boom
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fundamentalist movements have been
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influenced by that trend and all the and
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the Saudis of course financed a lot of
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the Deobandi schools the dural no loom
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throughout Pakistan Reis up until
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shortly after 9/11
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so there are a lot of interchanges there
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a lot of interplay a lot of mutual
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influences and one more key key one is
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that how many the Shia Khomeini was
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heavily influenced by my duty even
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though being a she
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I said well I mean I the distinction
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between Sunnis and Shias from a
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non-muslim point of view is there’s no
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daylight between them it’s I mean you
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know for them that it’s it’s it’s a
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little I mean even it’s lilliputian
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would be fair I mean one cracks the I
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get too big and the other cracks yeah
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get the little end so yeah there’s a
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minor differences and you know some
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minor details but it terms of jihad and
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the need to spread Islam around the
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world by the force it possible or by
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persuasion and a filtration and the
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force isn’t this or they’re all in a
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corn on that for sure so
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