Salafi Muslim Brotherhood.
Following his arrest, Salafi was transferred to Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata.
Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an independent, ultra-conservative Salafi Islamist lawyer and politician.
The official form of
Islam is Sunni of the Hanbali school, in its Salafi version.
Salafi, who has four daughters and two sons,
ran an Islamic bookstall during these 19 years.
Local Muslims, most of them impoverished, were given money as enticements to start following Salafi Islam.
The newspaper also claimed that Al Salafi was in fact arrested last year sometime in December.
And particularly after the attack on the Indian Parliament,
President Pervez Musharraf acted against the Deobandi and Salafi groups.
This Wahhabi/Salafi organisation was recently banned from university
campuses in Pakistani Punjab but faces no such restriction in India.
After 9/11, and particularly after the attack on
the Indian Parliament, President Pervez Musharraf acted against the Deobandi and Salafi groups.
Malaysia's 61.3 percent of the population is of Sunni
Muslims and like Pakistan, the majority population here considers Islam's Salafi and Wahhabi ideology.
Muhtasiba(Salafi Group that Commands Right and Forbids Wrong),
which is angered by Western social influence, women's presence in the Saudi workforce, TV and other issues.
Although he has disclaimed sectarianism in Islam,
he is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology, and as a radical Islamic televangelist propagating Wahhabism.
A September attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis left four dead, 49 injured,
several buildings looted and burned out and the black Salafi flag flying above the embassy grounds.
He has been called an"authority on comparative religion","perhaps the most influential Salafi ideologue in India","the rock star of tele-evangelism and
a proponent of modern Islam" and"the world's leading Salafi evangelist".
A Sept. 14 attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis left 4 dead, 49 injured, several buildings looted and burnt out,
and the black Salafi flag flying above the embassy grounds.
Bosnia's Muslims are generally moderate but
some have adopted radical Salafi Islam from foreign fighters who came to the country
during its 1992-95 war to fight alongside Muslims against Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.
When used in reference to reform of Islam, it may mean modernism,
such as that proposed by Muhammad Abduh; or Salafi literalism, such as that preached by Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani ʾIslām(الإسلام)(help·info)
"submission to God.
It relieves the pressure on non-Muslims: indicative of the new thinking,
Jordanian Salafi leader Abou Mohamad Tahawi recently stated
that“The Alawi and Shi'i coalition is currently the biggest threat to Sunnis, even more than the Israelis.”.