ronki23
Well-Known Member
The Taliban aren't Salafis, they are Deobandis. The Pakistani Taliban also aren't the Taliban, they are a separate entity.
Qutbism, if it is even a word, relates to the fusion of Islamic fundamentalism with Western totalitarian concepts and ideas borrowed from the communists and Nazis. Al-Qaeda and ISIS utilise these concepts, although Qutb wasn't a Salafi.
The main reason that they don't all get along though is not primarily that they have religious differences, but that they have strategic differences.
The Taliban are basically a Religious ethno-nationalist group, rather than a transnational movement. Their concern is Pashtun power in Afghanistan.
Hamas are another nationalist group.
Al-Qaeda were a transnational terrorist group whose ultimate goals may be loosely similar to ISIS, but they have vastly different ideas about how to go about achieving them.
ISIS started off as a fundamentalist resistance movement, who became a de facto state with transnational aspirations. As they claim to be a caliphate, any Muslim who refuses to acknowledge Bagdhadi as rightful Caliph damages their claim to legitimacy, and can be declared kuffar. They also reject the concept of nation states/nationalism as an innovation.
So it is really about what each group wants to achieve and/or their strategy to achieve this, rather than narrow question of religious belief.
So what is Salafism and how does it differ from Deobandism? As bin Laden married Mullah Omar's daughter and Mullah Omar married bin Laden's daughter
And ISIS used to be part of Al Qaeda so I assume ISIS is Salafism that rejects Qutbist ideals that Al Qaeda followed e.g claiming Baghdadi was the Caliph
I don't know enough about Hamas but compared to Fatah they're very right wing