(Wall Street Journal) Michael J. Ybarra - In the 18th century, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his army destroyed shrines and minarets throughout Islamdom. They even attempted to raze the dome over the Prophet Muhammad's own tomb in Medina. Wahhab created a religious movement that insisted on a return to the first principles of the Quran and the Hadith, the sayings of the prophet. He warred against fellow Muslims, whom he denounced as apostates, and wanted to tear down, sometimes literally, centuries of accretions to Islam.
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