Tag Archives: Wahhabism Responsible for Extremism

  Herland Report host, Hanne Herland speaks to Norway’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Carl Schiøtz Wibye about the history of Saudi extremism, Wahhabism and Islamism. How may the Saudis solve the problem of extremism, and will Crown Prince Salman’s efforts be enough? In order to understand why the current efforts of the Crown Prince to reform Saudi Arabian society …

  Herland Report: Norway’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Carl Schiøtz Wibye, analyses the Saudi Arabian Wahhabism as a sect, a sunni-extremist deviation within Islam that today is causing problems. He explains how oil money has been fuelled into exporting radical ideology, that in many aspects breaks off from traditional Islam. He states that these Wahhabi-extremist trends first permeated the …