Grand Mufti and the highest
Islamic authority in Syria— Shaikh Ahmad Badruddin Hassoun—maintains that he is
both “Sunni and Shiite” at the same time. "I am Sunni in practice, Shiite
in allegiance. My roots are Salafi [righteous], and my purity is Sufi
[saintly]", he said, as reported in an Arabic media outlet. But Wahhabism
is not a mainstream Islamic sect like Sunni or Shia. Rather, it is an extremist
ideology based on an exclusivist takfirist theology propounded by the medieval
theologians…….. |