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- International_propagation_of_conservative_Sunni_Islam abstract "Starting in the mid-1970s and 1980s, conservative/strict/puritanical interpretations of Sunni Islam favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (and to a lesser extent by other Gulf monarchies) have achieved what political scientist Gilles Kepel calls a \"preeminent position of strength in the global expression of Islam.\" The interpretations included not only \"Wahhabi\" Islam of Saudi Arabia, but Islamist/revivalist Islam, and a so-called \"hybrid\" of the two interpretations.The impetus for the spread of the interpretations through the Muslim world was funding provided by petroleum exports which ballooned following the October 1973 War. One estimate is that during the reign of King Fadh (1982 to 2005), over $75 billion was spent in efforts to spread Wahhabi Islam. The money was used to established 200 Islamic colleges, 210 Islamic centers, 1500 mosques, and 2000 schools for Muslim children in Muslim and non-Muslim majority countries. The schools were \"fundamentalist\" in outlook and formed a network \"from Sudan to northern Pakistan\". The late king also launched a publishing center in Medina that by 2000 had distributed 138 million copies of the Quran (the central religious text of Islam) worldwide.In the 1980s the Kingdom's approximately 70 embassies around the world added religious attaches to their cultural, educational, and military attaches, and hajj visa consular officers. The new attaches' \"job was to get new mosques built in their countries and to persuade existing mosques to propagate the dawah wahhabiya\".The Saudi Arabian government funds a number of international organizations to spread fundamentalist Islam, including the Muslim World League, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, the International Islamic Relief Organization, and various royal charities such as the Popular Committee for Assisting the Palestinian Muhahedeen. Supporting da'wah (literally `making an invitation` to Islam) -- proselytizing or preaching of Islam—has been called \"a religious requirement\" for Saudi rulers that cannot be abandoned \"without losing their domestic legitimacy\" as protectors and propagators of Islam.While funds from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf have supported the \"Wahhabi\" interpretation of Islam (sometimes called Petro-Islam), they have also directly or indirectly assisted other strict and conservative interpretations of Sunni Islam such as those of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-e-Islami organizations. Wahhabism and forms of Islamism are said to have formed a \"joint venture\", which shares a strong \"revulsion\" against western influences, a belief in strict implementation of injunctions and prohibitions of sharia law, and an opposition to both Shiism and popular Islamic religious practices (the cult of `saints`). Later the two movements are said to have been \"fused\", or formed \"hybrid\", particularly as a result of the Afghan jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet Union. This interpretation also included a belief in the importance of jihad, and resulted in the training and equipping of thousands of Muslims to fight against Soviets and their Afghan allies in Afghanistan in the 1980s. (The alliance was not permanent and the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden broke with Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. Revivalist groups also disagreed among themselves -- Salafi Jihadi groups differing with the less extreme Muslim Brotherhood, for example.)The funding has been criticized for promoting an intolerant, fanatical form of Islam that allegedly helped to breed terrorism.Critics argue that volunteers mobilized to fight in Afghanistan (such as Osama bin Laden) and \"exultant\" at their success against the Soviet superpower, went on to fight Jihad against Muslim governments and civilians in other countries. And that conservative Sunni groups such as the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan are attacking and killing not only non-Muslims but fellow Muslims they consider to be apostates, such as Shia and Sufis.".
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