More U.S. Muslims resist Wahhabi takeover

Don’t expect certain GOP operatives to cheer, but American Muslims are fighting back against the growing successes of Saudi- and Qatari-funded Wahhabi attempts to control Islam in this country.

With the apparent voice of American Muslims dominated by Wahhabi regimes and Hamas fronts, and mosques increasingly run by Saudi-trained, medieval immigrant clerics whose exclusivist preachings have little resonance here, more and more American adherents to Islam are breaking away. And they outnumber the Wahhabis here.

“Practically all American mosques are led by people who have no academic training in Islam, or who have received their training from overseas Islamic academies. Most of these have been taken over by highly conservative elements aligned with the extremely conservative Wahhabi interpretation of Islam championed and funded by the Saudi Arabian monarchy,” writes Ahmed Nassef, publisher of a liberal Muslim online journal.

Americanized Muslims, he says, want nothing to do with them – or with the advocacy groups that claim to speak for Islam in America, which the Center for Security Policy has called the Wahhabi lobby.

“Today, American mosques and advocacy groups, whose representatives are most commonly called on by the media to speak for Muslim Americans, reflect only a fraction of the larger Muslim American community,” says Nassef.

“But there are signs that a grass-roots progressive Muslim movement is finally taking hold,” he adds – signs of a real trend that could break the Saudi, Qatari, and other Wahhabi theopolitical warfare campaign against the United States. Signs that the White House ought to watch.