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n. - A conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia.

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  • Osama bin Laden and his followers practice Wahhabism
  • Critics call Wahhabism puritanical and intolerant and say its fundamentalist outlook has led to the repression of women.
  • The bizarre Muslim sect known as Wahhabism holds that this is not a source of knowledge and that the only valid sources are the Qur'an and ahadith.
  • They do this primarily through a recent school of Muslim theology called Wahhabism, which receives most of its funds from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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