Wahhabism In Trouble?

Stephen Schwartz (bio below) has an article in TCS, picked up by Powerline, that is most encouraging. It seems that maybe, finally, the Muslim world is telling the Saudi Wahhabi funders that, not only is the world's perspective of Islam being damaged by their murderous theology, but muslims from the former Yugoslavia have simply had enough of their garbage and will not tolerate any more.
This is very interesting to me because the Islamic Society of North America Headquarters, and the Mosque in Plainfield, IN, (15 min outside Indianapolis, is said to be of the Wahhabi tradition. The article begins with a few lines about the Iraq Study Group, but mostly it refers to clerics and attitudes in the Yugoslavic states.(emphasis and comments mine.)

Only a couple of lines in the report were worthy of comment. One appears on page 29 of the printed version: "Funding for the Sunni insurgency (sic) comes from private individuals within Saudi Arabia". This was the first time anybody connected to the U.S. government acknowledged something known throughout the Muslim world. That is, Sunni terrorism in Iraq is not an insurgency, but an invasion; the "foreign fighters" are mainly Saudi, as revealed when their deaths are covered in Saudi media, replete with photographs of the "martyrs."

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Saudi sources indicate that King Abdullah (who apparently would like to live in a more or less "normal" country) is assembling his forces for a decisive confrontation with the reactionaries(the Wahhabi's). Part of the Wahhabi-line strategy is to depict a U.S. leadership in conflict with King Abdullah, to undermine the monarch's credibility. That is why different versions of a meeting between U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and King Abdullah, late last month, circulate in the MSM and the blogosphere.
According to credible reports, Cheney urged Abdullah to stiffen action against Saudi-Wahhabi involvement in the Iraqi bloodletting...

espresso beans to Powerline

Stephen Schwartz is the author of the bestselling Anchor paperback, The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role In Terrorism, and a consultant on domestic and international affairs in Washington, DC.
He was born in 1948, and has pursued a long literary and journalistic career, having published seven books on modern political history, with special attention to extremism. He was a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle for 10 years.
His articles have appeared in many of the world's leading newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph of London and many more. He is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard as well as to Reforma in Mexico City, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and leading periodicals in the Balkans.