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Salafis
The Salafi movement, also known as the Salafi methodology and the Salafist movement, or Wahhabi movement is a movement or sect within Sunni Islam that takes its name from the term salaf ("predecessors", "ancestors") used to identify the earliest Muslims, who, its adherents believe, provide the epitome of Islamic practice. The popular hadith that quotes Muhammad as saying 'The people of my own generation are the best, then those who come after them, and then those of the next generation,' is seen as a call to Muslims follow the example of those first three generations, the salaf.
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New York Times
April 5, 2018
In a confidential investigative report seen by The New York Times, the authorities blamed Imam Doudi's “patient and insistent proselytizing” for helping to turn a quarter of Marseille's practicing Muslims — the largest concentration in France — into practitioners of Salafism, an ultraconservative movementÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 4, 2018
The number of Salafists residing in Germany continues to grow, according to a report published by the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, which cited regional security statistics. While in 2013 it was reported that about 5,500 radical Islamists in Germany, by the first quarter of this year this number had grownÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 4, 2018
The number of Salafists in Germany has increased twofold since 2013, the interior ministry said Wednesday, surpassing December's "all-time high." The number of individuals classified as Salafists by regional authorities in state offices for the Protection of the Constitution reached 11,000, the ministry said,Ãâà...
HSToday
April 2, 2018
ISIS and al-Qaeda, whether directed or inspired, will continue to prey on the minds of radicalized Salafists to spread their terror without distinguishing their targets. Salafist jihadi ideology not only considers the Christians, Jews, and the Shia as their enemies but also other Muslims who do not believe in theirÃâà...
EU Reporter
April 2, 2018
Most French people want Muslims suspected of harbouring extremist views detained if they appear on spy agency watchlists and would back a ban on ultra-conservative Salafist Islam, two polls showed after the latest deadly attack in France, writes Brian Love. Right-wing opponents of Emmanuel MacronÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 28, 2018
Since followers of Wahhabism claim that they are trying to purify Islam, they call themselves "Salafi," while naming others "Sufi." Based on the dictionary meaning, Salafi means "antecedents," which refers to the Muslims in the first century. However, the practices and beliefs of people following WahhabismÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 28, 2018
Since followers of Wahhabism claim that they are trying to purify Islam, they call themselves "Salafi," while naming others "Sufi." Based on the dictionary meaning, Salafi means "antecedents," which refers to the Muslims in the first century. However, the practices and beliefs of people following WahhabismÃâà...
The Local France
March 28, 2018
In the wake of Friday's shootings by Radouane Lakdim, officials disclosed his links starting in 2013 with "the Salafist movement", a Sunni Muslim branch ... who have struck France since the January 2015 massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris were later found to have frequented Salafist circles.
Yahoo Singapore News
March 27, 2018
As France prepares to honour a policeman killed in the latest attack by a homegrown jihadist, debate has again flared over how to counter the influence of radical Salafist interpretations of Islam, with some officials urging an outright ban. In the wake of Friday's shootings by Radouane Lakdim, officialsÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 27, 2018
He urged Mr Macron's centrist government to “wake up to the terror threat”. Socialist lawmaker Manuel Valls echoed Mr Didier's thoughts in an interview with the French news channel BFM TV on Sunday, in which he called for France to “ban Salafism,” an ultra-conservative branch of Islam the attackerÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
March 24, 2018
In early March 2018, senior leaders of the Salafi-jihadi stream in the Ein Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon called a meeting with Lebanese journalists to liberate Jerusalem and Palestine rather than to operate in Iraq and Syria, which had for nearly two decades been the global jihad's mainÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 18, 2018
Amid a crackdown on Islamists in Egypt, Salafists have avoided the fate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, largely by backing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Nonetheless, Egypt's Salafists have suffered a major reversal of fortunes, particularly in the political arena. Wael Magdi Abdel Moneim,Ãâà...
La Croix International
March 15, 2018
The Observatory of Radicalism and Religious Conflicts in Africa in Senegal is an action-research center of the Timbuktu Institute-African Center for Peace Studies promoting a transdisciplinary approach to religious radicalism studies. In February, it published a study on Salafist internet strategies in Senegal.
Christian Science Monitor
March 7, 2018
But in Tunisia, residents say, the Salafis have failed. They miscalculated, vastly underestimating Tunisians' historical and generational connection to Sufism. Across the country, neighborhoods and towns are named after Sufi saints, and most Tunisian families can trace their lineage to a Sufi saint or holyÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 6, 2018
The rise of Salafists and Wahhabists in major Tajikistani cities and among Tajik diasporas in Russian cities like Moscow have long been a concern for officials in Dushanbe, who fear that these movements could link up with other forces, domestic and foreign, to produce an Islamist revolution. The authoritiesÃâà...
Times of India (blog)
March 3, 2018
Leading the anti-Shia diatribe is Salafi preacher Zakkariya Swalahi, who heads a small Salafi group after his exit from Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM). Zakkariya has already addressed around ten public meetings in various parts of north Kerala in the last one month where he lashed out at MuslimÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 3, 2018
Yasser Borhamy, chairman of the Salafi Daawa, said that he, his party and their affiliated group would launch a large campaign to support President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the upcoming presidential elections. Borhamy said that the Salafi Nour Party and the group have devised a plan to tour all of Egypt'sÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 2, 2018
Rabat – Moroccan Salafist Hammad Kabbaj shown his support for the director of the newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, Taoufik Bouachrine, who was recently arrested on charges of “sexual assault and human trafficking.” On Wednesday, February 28, Hammad Kabbaj explained his reasons for siding withÃâà...
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (blog)
February 21, 2018
The analysis of contemporary texts put out by groups from across a broad ideological spectrum highlights that the ideology of Salafi-jihadism, held by groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, is palpably distinct from mainstream Sunni Islam. Across a sample of thousands of documents, of the 50 mostÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
December 31, 1999
The Saudi-backed Madkhalist religious sect is the most prominent player in the Kufra and Sabha violence. A basic tenet of Madkhalism is respect for legitimate authority, the wali-al-amr. This Salafist movement was first introduced to Libya by Muammar Gaddafi to counter Libya's more revolutionary SalafistÃâà...
Egypttoday
December 31, 1999
CAIRO – 21 March 2018: Vice President of the Salafist Call organization Yasser Borhami, who had supported President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in the 2014 ... In a series of conferences, Borhami has urged Salafist Call's Nour Party members to participate in the 2018 presidential election to avoid a state of chaosÃâà...
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