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- Across the dusty street, behind high walls, was the Saudi-built Madrassa-I-Arabia, where two years later, John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," would come to study a fundamentalist brand of Islam called "Wahhabism."† (source)
- Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim.
- Wahhabi madrassa have many students hidden inside.† (source)
- But our resources were peanuts compared to the Wahhabi.† (source)
- "I don't want to give the impression that all Wahhabi are bad," Mortenson says.† (source)
- "Could you draw us a map of all the Wahhabi madrassas?" he asked.† (source)
- Apo calling Wahhabi madrassas beehives is exactly right.† (source)
- "Thinking about the Wahhabi strategy made my head spin," Mortenson says.† (source)
- "Wahhabi" is derived from the term Al-Wahhab, which means, literally, "generous giver" in Arabic, one of Allah's many pseudonyms.† (source)
- The bulk of that oil wealth pouring in from the Gulf is aimed at Pakistan's most virulent incubator of religious extremism—Wahhabi madrassas.† (source)
- Rashid recounts his experience among the Wahhabi madrassas of Peshawar in his bestselling book Taliban.† (source)
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- "Pakistan's dysfunctional educational system made advancing Wahhabi doctrine a simple matter of economics.† (source)
- In Pakistan, and other impoverished countries most affected by Wahhabi proselytizing, though, the name has stuck.† (source)
- Every time I visited to check on one of our projects, it seemed ten Wahhabi madrassas had popped up nearby overnight.† (source)
- ""I'd known that the Saudi Wahhabi sect was building mosques along the Afghan border for years," Mortenson says.† (source)
- "I tried to talk about root causes of the conflict—the lack of education in Pakistan, and the rise of the Wahhabi madrassas, and how that led to problems like terrorism," Mortenson says.† (source)
- "This also Wahhabi," Apo said.† (source)
- He spoke about the Wahhabi madrassas sprouting like cancerous cells, and the billions of dollars Saudi sheikhs carried into the region in suitcases to fuel the factories of jihad.† (source)
- ""Wahhabi madrassa is like a…"† (source)
- Before Mortenson left Rawalpindi, Brigadier General Bashir had pledged four lakh rupees, or about six thousand dollars, a considerable sum in Pakistan, toward a new CAI school to be built in his home village southeast of Peshawar, where Wahhabi madrassas were plentiful.† (source)
- And it is this generous giving—the seemingly unlimited supply of cash that Wahhabi operatives smuggle into Pakistan, both in suitcases and through the untraceable hawala money-transfer system—that has shaped their image among Pakistan's population.† (source)
- By early September 2001, the stark red minaret of a recently completed Wahhabi mosque and madrassa compound had risen behind high stone walls in the center of Skardu itself, like an exclamation point to the growing anxiety Mortenson had felt all summer.† (source)
- In December 2000, the Saudi publication Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported that one of the four major Wahhabi proselytizing organizations, the Al Haramain Foundation, had built "1,100 mosques, schools, and Islamic centers," in Pakistan and other Muslim countries, and employed three thousand paid proselytizers in the previous year.† (source)
- Wahhabi?† (source)
- A Wahhabi madrassa.† (source)
- "Wahhabism is a conservative, fundamentalist offshoot of Sunni Islam and the official state religion of Saudi Arabia's rulers.† (source)
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