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basic texts and to take responsibility for spreading this knowledge and belief to as
many people as possible. The net was a tool to empower believers to become
agents of ‘basic Islam,’ made accessible through “the best Koran program on the
Planet” and summarized in short “Islamic Briefs.”
The education programme was not immune, however, from the vagaries of
the dot-com economy. The IIC had been Linuxvision’s first and major project by
which the company hoped to make a name for itself in the Arabization market.
When that failed, and after the 2001 site hack/hard disk crash, the IIC was much
less vigorously pursued and vanished from the web sometime between August
and December 2001.
A HISTORY OF ALLAH.COM
121
“WAHABI TERROR”—WE HAVE KNOWN IT SINCE THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY!
Another prominent feature of the site had long been its anti-Wahhabism, in the
form of polemics against what it presented as the Sa"udi/Najdi “Taimia cult” (a
derogatory reference to the paramount significance for contemporary
Wahhabism and Salafism of the purist scholar Ibn Taymiyya [1263–1328]):
Can Saudi Prince & Family, Sultan of Brunai and all Muslim Millionaires and Billionaires
many people as possible. The net was a tool to empower believers to become
agents of ‘basic Islam,’ made accessible through “the best Koran program on the
Planet” and summarized in short “Islamic Briefs.”
The education programme was not immune, however, from the vagaries of
the dot-com economy. The IIC had been Linuxvision’s first and major project by
which the company hoped to make a name for itself in the Arabization market.
When that failed, and after the 2001 site hack/hard disk crash, the IIC was much
less vigorously pursued and vanished from the web sometime between August
and December 2001.
A HISTORY OF ALLAH.COM
121
“WAHABI TERROR”—WE HAVE KNOWN IT SINCE THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY!
Another prominent feature of the site had long been its anti-Wahhabism, in the
form of polemics against what it presented as the Sa"udi/Najdi “Taimia cult” (a
derogatory reference to the paramount significance for contemporary
Wahhabism and Salafism of the purist scholar Ibn Taymiyya [1263–1328]):
Can Saudi Prince & Family, Sultan of Brunai and all Muslim Millionaires and Billionaires