Cosmo-Salafists in Europe and the Middle East

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  1. P says:

    I think the recent shift from Syria to Egypt has to do with the current problems the Syrian government (says to have) experienced with these transnational students. The car bomb that exploded at the Mukhabarat-building September 2008 was also blamed on them, bringing ‘foreign’ terrorist ideas to Syria. Since then, Syria is totally closed for foreign students.

  2. Abu Hudayfa says:

    About the fact that Syria is supposed to be closed for foreign students, than that is not in totality true. For I personally know some people who go for study there and are studying there.

    The second point I would like to add is, that Salafiyyah is a term that is used very unscientifically by most “researchers”, and they stick it to everyone who is claiming it, even some say that Osama bin Laden is a Salafi ?!

    The term is being used like the term “wahhabi” was being used in the past, so it is very saddening that researchers don’t learn from their mistakes, and keep coming up with cheap research. Maybe the deadlines are causing them to become hasty and unscientifically.

    • martijn says:

      Abu Hudayfa,

      Needless to say I like to hear more about the people studying in Syria…;)
      Of course you have a point about the term Salafiyyah. There is an awareness that the term cannot be taken for granted and that one cannot just accept every claim. Nevertheless the distinction between groups applying this label is made but usually they tend to become self-evident. Indeed like the term wahhabi, or fundamentalists or radicals. I will write something about this in the future, not to decide who is a true Salafi and who is not (because that is not up to me) but to try to have some sort of working definition and working tool.

  1. October 3, 2009

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