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Identity Crisis: A Look into Wahhabism I

The world has a history of painting events, objects and mostly people or community white or black depending on what suit their taste. To their enemies, the Tatars and/or the Mongols were the " the devil's horsemen " - the ugliest, filthiest barbarians that ever lived. But they (the Mongols) sees themselves as noble people whose warlike nomadic way of life was superior to the soft ways of city people like India, China and Persia. On the quest for true freedom and political rights, Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was labeled as a 'terrorist' by the British and later sentenced him to life imprisonment but till his death, he remained a freedom fighter and a heroe not only to the South Africans but the whole world. And so was Archbishop Desmond Tutu (b. 1931) who later in 1984 got a Nobel Peace Price. Menachem Begin (1913-1992) who head Haganah and Irgun, a so-called revolutionary militant groups whose target are the Britians and Arabs in Palestine was then labeled the wo...