Talk:Salafi

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NPOV

I found this page devoid of any reasonable mentions of current events related to Salafism, or more specifically Salafist jihadism/terrorism. Imho that's an NPOV violation that I tried to correct to give people a more balanced view when they come here looking for information on why someone would murder Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni. Feel free to argue that I have myself violated NPOV, but if you're going to revert the changes I made, please put an NPOV tag on the page so we can get it resolved. Again, I'm not exactly neutral here, but all my edits were well supported by mainstream media sources. If reverts are done without an NPOV tag then I will respond with such a tag. Thank you. Pär Larsson (talk) 19:02, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Instead of putting undue weight on one particular current event, the problem you have noticed is better solved by making the lead conform to WP:LEAD by making it summarise the section on contemporary Salafism which includes the relation between Salafism and terrorism/jihadism.·Maunus·ƛ· 20:03, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I have no problem with expanding the Salafist Jihadi section - but the Arrigoni case is really not the most salient or important case of Salafi Jihadism others come to mind such as ... for example 9/11 and several other much more widely publicized terror acts. This is WP:Recentism and undue weight.·Maunus·ƛ· 20:22, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Page is a clear candidate for an NPOV tag imho. I'll work on figuring out the procedures and rules for such and make sure it's done right.Pär Larsson (talk) 23:32, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

4.7 Persecution of Salafis

Content seems to be mostly unrelated to the main article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.13.220 (talk) 18:47, 22 June 2011‎ (UTC)

what is salafism

IMHO this article does a very poor job, especially in its long introduction... it needs to be written in layman terms. Rather than saying it is based on the three pure generations - i suggest explaining what the principles of those three generations were, and doing so in the intro. 84.111.132.40 (talk) 20:18, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that's a matter of differing intepretations... AnonMoos (talk) 07:55, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with IP:84.111.132.40. The article should be adapted to the laymans level. In that context, double-reading this article with the article on "Wahhabism" (the outsiders' name on Salafism) provides a good overview. The first paragraph of the intro of Wahhabism explains what Salafism (really) is. The article of Salafism provides more like an insiders view. I believe that the articles should be merged, but I'm not qualified in this topic – I may be wrong. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 18:44, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Muhammad Abduh, Jamal al-Din Afghani, Rashid Rida must be removed from this article

Muhammad Abduh, Jamal al-Din Afghani, Rashid Rida ane in no way associated with dawa as salafiyah. they have been refuted by salafi scholars time and time again. this is misleading english readers with useless information that is not asssociated with this topic. this mention was on this page for too long and must end. Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida were both soofi and Jamal al-Din Afghani was shia (you can even tell by the black turban he has on his head only worn by shia sayads).

http://al-athariyyah.com/media/pdf/manhaj/the_reality.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.149.235.255 (talk) 15:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Then please WP:SOFIXIT! Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 18:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC)