Rome (AsiaNews) – The news has not hit the front-pages, but it is a harbinger of important developments.  Wahhabism, the doctrinal foundation of Saudi Arabia’s version of Islam funded in many parts of the world thanks to Riyadh, it is not part of Sunni Islam. It is a “distortion” of Islam that leads to extremism and terrorism. Hence, “a radical change is needed to re-establish the true meaning of Sunnism”. However, Saudi Arabia is already counterattacking, afraid that this might be the first step for the country and its imams to be burnt at the stake.

Over 100 Islamic clerics from around the world, including India, have attended this anti-Takfirism Sunni conference in Chechnya. They concluded that Salafism/Wahhabism, the state religion of the Saudi Kingdom flourishing in almost all Muslim-populated courtiers because of the massive Saudi funding, is not the part of mainstream Sunni Islam.