John Mohammed Butt: The hippy who became an imam

[Nagel]

This looks like and interesting programme, Thursday Radio 4 at 11:00am or downloadable through this link about the man. He's an old hippy who stayed on in Pakistan's Swat Valley and became a respected imam:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9369142.stm

 

Off to download and listen now

[donkey]

Seems like a sound bloke. And what he says is just further evidence that expansionist Islamic fundamentalism doesn't originate among ordinary Muslims, but from an Arabian sect called Wahabists - you know, the ones we buy oil off, and sell weapons to - who use their money and influence to take over and subvert more peaceful forms of Islam.

[Nagel]

Seems like a sound bloke. And what he says is just further evidence that expansionist Islamic fundamentalism doesn't originate among ordinary Muslims, but from an Arabian sect called Wahabists - you know, the ones we buy oil off, and sell weapons to - who use their money and influence to take over and subvert more peaceful forms of Islam.

 

Quite.

 

I worked in Pakistan during 1982 and 83, but I wouldn't go there now.

[LordChaverly]

And what he says is just further evidence that expansionist Islamic fundamentalism doesn't originate among ordinary Muslims, but from an Arabian sect called Wahabists -

 

Islam itself originated from an Arabian sect.

[donkey]

Islam itself originated from an Arabian sect.

 

And Christianity came from another sect which originated in that general region. However, I don't think either religion espouses the idea that religious purity and understanding is dependent on ethnicity or geographical location, as some Gulf Arabs of the wahaist sect seem to think.