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I think brother AbuFatimah has been negatively affected by this forum due to its unending saudi/salafi criticism. But the problem we now see of rebound salafi attack from other muslim group is a response to the dawah style of the salafi's in the last few decades. They were audacious in their views, accusatory, takfiris and exclusivists - many of them. But I see them changing for the good and they have become more moderate and balanced in their approach. I used to be one who thought everything saudi does is erroneous and also had because of the salafi dawah style adopted a similar style in defense of the Islamic tradition we were taught. But I think many of ours have now gone overboard and deem salafis as devilish najdis, errant, ill-educated and just against classical Islam in all its manifestation. Our scholars have to value the salafi people and their ideas. Some of them are great people and they have great fundamental ideas which can be valuable to the Islamic tradition. They have some extremely generous people and some of their ulema we have to value their academic abilities. I was in mombasa for two weeks and the most glowing, beloved mosque of many people centre around a new middle sized salafi mosque which mashAllah I was just awed by. The imam follows shafi madhab but he is salafi. Most people are shafi' in kenya but they flock to this mosque and learn great things from the learned Imam. Its packed from fajr to Isha'. He is a blessed sincere and praiseworthy individual. People are regularly seen hiding away tears in his spectacular khutbahs on friday. So if people remember I had made a thread about ambiguities in mind about salafis and how other Muslims should view them. I think we should be balanced, moderate and reasonable and not aggressive reactionaries to the salafi dawah style. WE should love them as proper Ahlus Sunnah without doubt and give them benefit of doubt for their sincere efforts. Salafis are our Muslim Ahlus Sunnah brothers. They are overall on the right even though they have many mistakes in their group like how we have other kinds of mistake. Salafis are generous. Salafis are the collective representation (crudely) of Hadrath Umar r.a. if I was to make an analogy. Remember there efforts to strike other groups will not end because they are literally obsessive manics about detecting and crushing bidah's. We should not become responsive aggression-aries in our treatment of them and about them rather we should better them by reciprocating love and showing them what the best Islam is, which the deobandi ulema have shown us and what other great scholars like for me Harun Yahya has shown me. These days its become so common to bash and flog Saudis its unimaginable both by non-Muslims and now more recently Muslims of other orientations. ITs easy to be on the saudi bashing camp but then think of it as why are we marginalizing this Ahlus Sunnah group and its people for a few adverse traits of theirs.