Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

I thought I read somewhere that Maajid Nawaz was from a Sunni Muslim background, not Sufi. Maybe my memory fails me?

Well, Sufis think of themselves as Sunni, but Sunnis don’t accept them as such. Kind of like Ahmadis or Ismailis identify as Muslims, but the majority of Muslims do not recognize them as Muslim.

Correction: Wahhabis don’t think of them as such. Most Sunnis in the world are *not* Wahhabi.

Perhaps we have different perspectives because we were surrounded by different cultures/kinds of Muslims...and I haven’t seen statistics to confirm either of our perspectives, have you? I think that’s the only way we can be sure.

But I’ve been around both: 13 years an Islamist, 4 years in jail confined in close quarters with founders of salafi-jihadists groups & I used to despise Sufis. Most born Sunnis hail from non-Wahhabi Sunni parenting. Wahhabism only grew & spread beyond the gulf since the 80s

Oh sorry to be unclear, yes, I completely agree w that part of your tweet. I was questioning whether the majority of Sunnis consider Sufis to be Sunni. As far as I understand it, Sufis can be Sunni or Shia and are the mystical/hippy Muslims-very different from mainstream Sunnis.

Is Sufism a more spiritual brand of Islam?

Yes. I’ve heard it described as being like Kabbalah to Judaism.