Monday, June 08, 2009

Pro-Western fundamentalists and Salafis

Many of you sent me links to articles in the Western press in which the March 14 coalition in Lebanon (which includes the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafite groups) is referred to as "pro-Western." But in a way it is not inaccurate: is it inaccurate to refer to the Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia as pro-Western?