This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. And the So the first question we have is

it to me a So the first question we have is please explain the Salafi or the Wahhabi movement and how it differs from mainstream Islam.

So the Salafi or the Wahhabi movement is a trend within Sunni Islam and this trend has a number of key theological differences that make it separate from the other strands of

Sunni Islam and in a nutshell they are extremely Protestant in their

understanding of the faith what do I mean by this their main

main criticisms are against what they believe to be a an excessive

veneration of saints so they want a direct relationship between man and God.

And they want to go back to the original. So many people say that Salafism is a type of Protestant reformation if you like.

Of course there are parallels with every parallel there are also differences,

but essentially Salafists want a very pure understanding of Islam that goes back to how it was originally

practiced, theologically. They're not saying that we should go back

technologically, no, they're saying theoretically, ritualistically, we should go back

to the very early stage of Islam.

And there's a lot of academics talk about Salafism and Wahhabism and how it's linked to terrorism.

And I have my own theories about this as well and in a nutshell I think

that the link is that has been made with cellophism and terrorism is somewhat

overstretched the fact that it matters that there are radical movements from

other strands as well. Simple examples of the Taliban of a Vanistan. The Taliban of

Afghanistan have nothing to do with the Salafri strand and there are other movements as well that we can point out that so

it's and the Iranian revolution like 79 has not even with Salafism as well so there are

radical strands in every single interpretation of Islam.

Salafism, generally speaking, is very quietest and pacifist,

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