fundamentalism

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Wed May 1 15:53:51 PDT 2002


At 12:25 AM 05/01/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>One was led by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92), that
>became the Wahhabi movement-the theology behind the Saudi government. Think
>of the Wahhabist Saudi government as similar to the theocratic government
>created by John Calvin in Geneva. Both are based on the idea of the
>sovereignty of God administered by righteous men.

i thought this was the one that the Brits helped invent. Wasn't there some info on this on a previous thread?

Joanna



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