Southeast asia Quote by John R. Bradley

“In Southeast Asia, the Wahhabization process began in the 1960s, when the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood were the great intellectual fashion among Muslim students, much as Marxism and Maoism were the intellectual fashion among students in the West.” quote by John R. Bradley — Download Open image

““In Southeast Asia, the Wahhabization process began in the 1960s, when the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood were the great intellectual fashion among Muslim students, much as Marxism and Maoism were the intellectual fashion among students in the West.””

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“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for his crimes. Police said he would to rape, torture, and chop up his victims on carriage roofs before tossing them on to the trackside, dead or barely alive.”

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“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia as debauched heretics, but there could be few more vulnerable moral high grounds where he might pitch his flag of religious superiority than this particular spot in cyberspace. The Sunnis, after all, have their own versions of this…

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