A Word About Salafis

Islamism is, at its most basic, political Islam. It is the application of Islam in public life as well as private life. Salafism is the literal-minded, fundamentalist subsect of Sunni Islam, of which Wahhabism is a subsect of again. Wahhabism, for those unaware is the ideology of the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Al-Qaeda. A hole in the philosophy recently struck me, and this article is a reaction against Salafist Islamism.