>Wahhabism was the idea of a British agent called Hempher. It's a >wholesale
British invention. Hempher recruited Wahhab and became >his controller. The
Saud tribe was picked out by Hempher as the best >bet for starting a
religious war. Can't locate my other sources just >now, I could only find
this:
Exactly. This is what I was referring to earlier. This is one of those nude-nudge wink-wink understandings that most non-Muslims in the room never get. This is why no one wants to be called a Wahhabist and would use the term for someone else quite derisively. Apparently Deoband has parallels since the BE was on the Indian sub-continent, too. No one rails against the Wahhabists and Deobandis as sell outs to western interests like the Iranians do. Even if you ignore the older history, based on current events it would be hard to argue otherwise.
The ultimate conspiracy in all this since 9-11 starts with the meetings in Prague between Atta and Iraqi diplomats (who were based in Turkey at the time). This then unfolded into the 'Axis of Evil'.
So you see how conspiricism pervades the US's way of dealing with the world, and always has? Most Americans, if they buy Bush's conspiratorial explanations of the world, have to be more ignorant than any of the clerical fascist Muslims they are so worried about. Most of the Muslims I've talked to post 9-11 (in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, one Iraqi) think 9-11 was horrible but that the US, as always, was mixing it up with the wrong crowd for its own ends and got badly burned.
Charles Jannuzi