"Mardrömmen är redan här..."

 

Den egyptiske författaren Alfred Rauf skriver i Mada Masr

om det islamistiska hotet mot Västerlandets demokratiska
system.

Det största hotet idag är det han kallar "the IS within",
d v s de hundratusentals muslimer i Europa som
sympatiserar med Kalifatet.

Han gör en grundlig analys av hur wahhabismen via
regimen i Saudiarabien, Muslimska Brödraskapet och
Al Qaeda skapat dagens Kalifatet IS.

 

“One day, not very far from now,

Europe will wake up to a nightmare.”

 

I made this comment to friends during a 2012

visit to Europe. They swiftly dismissed it. Yet

just two years later, with Islamic State (IS)

supporters demonstrating in European streets 

and European citizens joining the IS to fight in

Syria and Iraq, it seems that the nightmare has

arrived.

 

What is most dangerous to Europe is not the

Islamic State itself, but rather, “the IS within.”

Europe’s governments are at a loss as to how to stop

this from happening. Their responses are ineffective,

even futile.

There are no easy solutions, but Europe must tackle

the main roots of the problem: finances, fanatical doctrines

controlling the preaching of Islam in Europe, European

policies toward the Middle East and immigration.

 

These issues are complex, and the history, doctrines, and

aims of the IS — along with some of the main differences in

 the mindsets of its European supporters — must be grasped

if the magnitude of the problem is to be understood.

 

The Islamic State’s beliefs are rooted in Wahhabism, a

branch of Islam founded in the 19th century that has

spawned several branches since then. Its founder,

 Mohamed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, made an alliance with

Mohamed bin Saud to revolt against the Ottoman Empire

and establish the first Saudi state, which was to be based

on the “true” Islam: the Wahhabi doctrine.

 

Wahhabism advocates returning to the earliest

 Islamic fundamentals, and regards anything that

came after the first three generations of Muslims

 as unnecessary innovation. That is why Saudi’s attempts

to foster certain modern practices and its administration’s

alliance with the US has been considered a betrayal of

Wahhabi principles. This perceived betrayal produced

Al-Qaeda, and later, the IS.

 

Islamic modernism developed parallel to Wahhabism,

primarily in Egypt’s Al-Azhar, and was pioneered by

scholars such as Rifaa al-Tahtawy, Jamal ad-Din

al-Afghany and Mohamed Abduh. They tried to integrate

 Islamic principles with European social theories

and advocated a critical reexamination of the

classical concepts of Islam, rereading the revival

of Islam through a 19th century lens.

 

Through Al-Azhar, Islamic modernism was dominant

in the Muslim world up until the 1960s. This changed

with the 1973 oil crisis quadrupling the price of oil,

providing Wahhabism with all the resources it

needed to reign and even take over Al-Azhar

University.

Since then, the Wahhabi movement has spent

billions of dollars on printing books and sending

missionaries, financing scholars all over the Islamic

 world and beyond. This same petrodollar still finances

the IS today.

 

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