Herland Report: Why does the Liberal West so often refuse to criticize Islamic persecution of Christians in the Middle East? The past years, we have seen a near genocidal situation for minorities, millions of Christians leaving the Middle East. At the same time and since the 1980’s, the Wahhabi radicalization of Islam has swept through the Middle Eastern Muslim communities, …
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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 …
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Herland Report: Tillat noen raske notater. Jeg erfarer at pakistanere som driver matbutikken på hjørnet, der jeg ofte handler, har sluttet å hilse på meg. Hilser jeg først, kan jeg få noen ord tilbake. Jeg har tilsvarende erfaring med den tyrkiske frisøren ved siden av i gaten. Forklaringen ligger i en sekterisk islamsk tenkning: wahabiske (salafisme). Og dette bør …
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Herland Report: The Norwegian journalist, Amal A. Wahab serves as a classic example of the propaganda-support for terrorist groups in Syria that keeps the West from getting a balanced look at the international geopolitical power play in the region. Eva Thomassen asks in this article why, in her view, Western journalists like Amal Wahab so openly writes articles in …
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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 …
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Herland Report: Wahhabists/fundamentalists, for whom beard shaving is forbidden, condemn Christians, Jews, followers of other religions and Muslims who disagree with them, declaring them “apostates”, “heathens”, and “infidels” who deserve to be killed and massacred, writes Dr. Trond Ali Linstad for The Herland Report. The Wahhabist campaign has reached Norway. Mosques are being built and usable spaces are being …
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