Forgotten history of Wahhab

Submitted by Norman Wand (United States), Jan 25, 2003 at 14:24

The founder of Wahhabism, Mohammed Wahhabi was tried and executed by the Ottoman Courts for homicide. His body was also burned because his religious knowledge was found heretical as well as incompetent giving leave to his followers to pillage and loot in the name of Allah. It took armies from the Ottoman Empire and Egypt to defeat his followers and save Mecca and Medina once in history. I challenge Moslem scholars in Saudi Arabia to explain why the Saudi brutal conquest and occupation of Mecca and Medina in the twentieth century after the fall of the Ottoman Empire improves the world of Islam and its mission to serve humanity with teachings of such a heretic.

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