Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad: Difference between revisions

*Governments necessarily need to hide some things from citizens. They also cannot give perfect justice. Injustice to someone or something is inevitable. In setting the above blanket rules for Islamic governments, Wahhab and DeLong-Bas have justified totalitarianism in a subtle form. If a government fails to stick to the above rules what will the people do to it? What will the neighboring Islamic country do it? What should the militants do? We leave the answers as a guess to the reader.

*Why sorcery is a grave sin? Sorcery has no basis in science; according to Muslims themselves, Allah and Quran are in complete compatibility with science. Is Allah scared of sorcery?

Belying "the extremist misogynist he is often made out to be," IAW responded to a picayune question about "some minute details of women's dress"  with a fatwa not spelling out dress regulations, but simply stating "that clothing and maintaining the wife are the responsibility of the husband, and ended the discussion. Thus it is left to the husband, rather than an external party to decide how his wife ought to dress."<ref name="DLB2004: 157-8">[[#DLB2004|DeLong-Bas, ''Wahhabi Islam'', 2004]]: 157-8</ref>