Some of the opinions offered re the recently rebranded singer once known as Cat Stevens and Yusef Islam, and now just Yusef (what's next? Joe I?) was that he is both Wahhabi and Sufi.
I'm not learned enough to know if you can be both, but would bet that the suggestion that you can be both would make Stephen Schwartz ballistic.
Given that it was a senior US Sufi imam who warned Congress that American mosques were falling under the dangerous control of Wahhabs, and how austere the Wahhabs are vs how esoteric and mystically inclined the Sufis are, I tend to think that the Hamas-supporting "Yusuf" is a Wahhabi.
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Some of the opinions offered re the recently rebranded singer once known as Cat Stevens and Yusef Islam, and now just Yusef (what's next? Joe I?) was that he is both Wahhabi and Sufi.
I'm not learned enough to know if you can be both, but would bet that the suggestion that you can be both would make Stephen Schwartz ballistic.
Given that it was a senior US Sufi imam who warned Congress that American mosques were falling under the dangerous control of Wahhabs, and how austere the Wahhabs are vs how esoteric and mystically inclined the Sufis are, I tend to think that the Hamas-supporting "Yusuf" is a Wahhabi.