Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Glossary
- Map
- Introduction: debating religion and politics in the twenty-first century
- 1 Consenting subjects: offcial Wahhabi religio-political discourse
- 2 Re-enchanting politics: Sahwis from contestation to co-optation
- 3 Struggling in the way of God abroad: from localism to transnationalism
- 4 Struggling in the way of God at home: the politics and poetics of jihad
- 5 Debating Salafis: Lewis Atiyat Allah and the jihad obligation
- 6 Searching for the unmediated word of God
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of personal names
- Index of place names
- General Index
- Cambridge Middle East Studies 25
3 - Struggling in the way of God abroad: from localism to transnationalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Glossary
- Map
- Introduction: debating religion and politics in the twenty-first century
- 1 Consenting subjects: offcial Wahhabi religio-political discourse
- 2 Re-enchanting politics: Sahwis from contestation to co-optation
- 3 Struggling in the way of God abroad: from localism to transnationalism
- 4 Struggling in the way of God at home: the politics and poetics of jihad
- 5 Debating Salafis: Lewis Atiyat Allah and the jihad obligation
- 6 Searching for the unmediated word of God
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of personal names
- Index of place names
- General Index
- Cambridge Middle East Studies 25
Summary
It was the right thing for Saudi Arabia to send Jihadis to Afghanistan. All Saudi Jihadis came back in 1992. They were nice people. We did not have takfiris in Saudi Arabia. Takfiris were all produced in Afghanistan. The worst among them are in London. The likes of Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada and al-Masari are the worst ones.
Jamal Khashogji, spokesman for Prince Turki al-Faysal, Saudi ambassador in Washington (Idhaat, al-Arabiyya TV Channel, 14 September 2005)He was young, enjoying his seventeenth spring when he told his mother that he is going to Afghanistan. She begged him not to go but he always said, it is fard ʿayn … it is fard ʿayn. Sheikh Muhsin issued him a fatwa that he did not need his father's permission because it is jihad dafʿi to defend Muslims against an aggressive enemy.
Year later the mother turned the radio off as Sheikh Muhsin was instructing parentsto protect their children and prevent them from going to those places wherethey learn to excommunicate rulers.
Mr Jamil was talking on television about terrorism and Jihadis. Years ago he went to support Jihad in Afghanistan. One of the girls watching the television show spat on this jasus (spy). Ahmad said that Mr Jamil was clandestinely spying on the Jihadis while pretending to be a voluntary aid worker.
Muhammad al-Hodhayf, Nuqtat taftish- Type
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- Contesting the Saudi StateIslamic Voices from a New Generation, pp. 102 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006