Fire & Brimstone, Much More Widespread & Sooner Than You Think

The opening is innocent enough - Muslims as victims of terror - and the build up is equally innocuous: "Today's narrative about so-called Islamic violence is often paired with cries against Muslims not combating evil 'within their midst.'"

But then there is this sting in the tail: "However, it is usually forgotten that it was the Muslims themselves who defeated the Wahabi rhetoric and their violence in 1818, when Saud and his forces were expelled by the Ottoman forces.

"While Muslims soundly defeated terrorism 200 years ago, history shows that it was Western powers who revived it and supported Wahabi extremism. With the Treaty of Darin, the British chose to make the Saud family and the Wahabi ideology a British protectorate and supported them as they killed Muslims and destroyed tombs, just like the ones in Pakistan. After capturing Makkah and Medina, where Wahabi's razed and disinterred the graves of the Prophet Muhammad's (AS) family and companions in 1925, it was the British government which was the first to recognize the Wahabi state."

Who is this Yusril Kidwai HuffPo introduces as "Muslim historian, Sufi, and award-winning blogger"? His discourse is not sufi, his line of argument portends fire and brimstone. His piece at HuffPo: Recent Shrine Bombings Remind Us That Muslims Are Victims of Terrorism Too.