To find the extremism behind the Egypt terror attack, start with anti-Sufi preachers | HA Hellyer | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/28/extremism-egypt-terror-attack-sufi-islam-extremist-ideology
For decades, there have been figures trained in countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, who have preached that not only is Sufism not integral to Islam, but that it is a rejection of it. Those figures are not simply on a few fiery pulpits on the Arabian peninsula – they are much further afield, in Muslim majority communities as well as Muslim minority ones. That reality is not simply true of post-1979, despite what Riyadh may now claim – rather, it goes back much further than that, and any “counter-extremism” approach needs to recognise that.