• The Call

  • Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project (Columbia Global Reports)
  • By: Krithika Varagur
  • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
  • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Call

By: Krithika Varagur
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
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Journalist Krithika Varagur's Da'wa chronicles the House of Saud as it systematically transforms the Muslim world in its own image, in one of the major imperial projects in today's world, on par with China's economic diplomacy.

Since 1979, Saudi Arabia has spent $1.8 billion per year, by one estimate, to propagate its puritanical brand of Islam, called Salafism or Wahhabism. It has kept scrupulous records of its religious activity in 27 countries, with over 4,000 Salafi preachers on its payroll worldwide. This is the cumulative scope of the Saudi campaign on three separate continents, told through the trial of a Christian governor in Indonesia; the emergence of Wahhabi influence in the Republic of Kosovo; and the death sentence of a Sufi priest in Nigeria.

©2020 Krithika Varagur (P)2020 Random House Audio
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This book covered how the Saudi-based Wahhabi methodology, due to its extensive proselytization efforts with a lot of funding, had a significant impact around the world. That impact has also given rise to terrorist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, whose ideology is rooted in that Wahhabi methodology, so the two-Wahhabi methodology and terrorism-cannot be separated. It also mentions how the Wahhabi/Salafi methodology is on the decline, as it should be, being that it is in opposition to sound, traditional Islam.

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