let us simplify.
there are four sunni "schools of thought" ( mazhaib ) and one shia, the sunni ones to be seen in historical context mainly... the sunni ones are hanafi, shafi, maliki, hanbali and the shia one is called jaafri/jafri... now, i, born into sunni background, never cared to learn of the schools because they are artificial and are the ideas of some people and their followers who i may not agree with... true islam doesn't have sectarianism... even years ago i used to say "i am not sunni, i am not shia, i am just a muslim" ( and this turned out to also said by muammar gaddafi, the current and unifying imam of all muslims )... but if you still want to know about sects, this (
The Five Schools of Islamic Thought | Inquiries About Shi'a Islam | Books on Islam and Muslims | Al-Islam.org ) is a shia source... like i said, these schools of thought are to be seen in historical context and also in familial context - for example, someone might say that his forefathers believed in hanbali mazhab.
"takfiri" means any reactionary person who aggressively or violently thinks he or she can declare someone a muslim or apostate... the irony is that the takfiris are themselves unaware of true islam and are there to be called fake-muslim ( munafiq ).
there are three basic mullahs streams - (a). wahabi ( sometimes called salafi ), from what is now saudia, (b). deobandi, from what is now uttar pradesh state in india, (c). ayatollai, from iran... all reactionary groups/governments among muslims derive from these three but i will concentrate on deobandi since the other two are well-known generally.
now, out of the three basic mullah streams, it is the indian stream ( deobandi ) that has spread more widely in the world than the other two... the deobandi ideology, origining in the 1700's ( but not known by that name then ), is a indian corruption of islam, bringing brahminical attitudes and native south asian traditions into muslim practices... in the 1800's, the deoband ideology was helped by the britishers through them funding the establishment of the "dar-ul-uloom deoband" mullah school in deoband town in what is now uttar pradesh state... the britishers did this because they saw these reactionaries as means to prevent any other great muslim leader like tipu sultan from ever finding support to challenge british hegemony in south asia... this is similar to how in modern times usa government and nato has created and supported various muslim reactionary movements to counter modern socialism in muslim-majority lands.
the deoband movement, though with various organizations taking its ideology in india ( and south asia ), has its official missionary branch called the tableeghi jamaat... "tabligh" means to preach, more appropriately "be a missionary"... though the tableeghi jamaat is now a transnational movement, it again was started in india ( near delhi ) in 1927... now, most "muslim" terrorist groups are direct and indirect results of this movement because the movement is the incubator directly for terrorists or its graduates become those who inspire others to go the terrorist way... from south east asia, south asia, central asia, russia, china, britain, east africa, saharan africa ( including sudan ), west africa, australia, the republic of south africa, north europe, west europe - all these places have been affected by the tableeghi jamaat... this would mean groups like jemah "islamiya", qaeda, taliban, hizb-ut-tahrir, fsa, ntc, nusra etc... must be noted that some groups like qaeda, fsa and ntc were really just names whose fighters came from both wahabi background and tableeghi background, depending on whether they came from the gulf ( the former ) or other sunni places ( the latter ), and it was predominantly the latter.
the ikwaan movement ( ikhwaan ul "muslimoon" / "muslim" brotherhood ) is a reactionary movement that origined in egypt and then spread in other parts of africa and into west asia, including syria and palestine ( the hamas movement there )... a follower of this movement is called ikhwaani... though the founder, hasan al-banna, was a wahabi, the later leader of the movement, sayyid qutb, was much inspired by the works of a indian deobandi mullah, abu ala maududi, and qutb then on based the movement on deobandi ideology... therefore, any ikhwaani, whether born in syria or in libya or algeria or turkey, is by extension following traditional indian reactionary attitudes/culture... now, the ikhwaan is present in various countries by other names too - in palestine ( gaza ), it is present as hamas... in turkey, it is the "ak party" ( which rules turkey presently )... in turk-prevalent-countries like germany and turkic countries, it is the "teblig"... in algeria, it was the groups gia and fis... and so on... as ever with reactionary groups, the ikhwaan of egypt, during colonial times, was supported by the the coloniser, the british... later, that role was also handled by usa government and by france government ( for some of africa )... in 2007, nato assisted hamas to ascend power in gaza... nato did this to counter the dominance of the socialism-based plo movement which is now mainly based in west bank... during the cia-created "arab spring" of 2011, nato assisted morsi of the egyptian ikhwaan to become president, until he was removed from power by the egyptian people and his ikhwaan movement banned and many of its leaders executed by hanging... same will be the fate of erdogan, the current ikhwaani president of turkey.
so indian culture in effect has been responsible for lot of reactionary injustice in the world, whether through the deobandis/tableeghis or the sanghis... and then there are the western governments and nato who have created or supported all these reactionary groups for western government strategic movements against socialism.
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you may or may not agree fully with what i wrote above but this matter needs clearing.
thank you.
true islam for me is only historically interesting and i defend it like i would defend any good idea... however, one of my first posts on pdf included calling for a post-religion communist humanity... besides, i do keep saying that i am simply bored of all religions... so your statement about me being a "islamist" fanatic is incorrect, i am not within a hundred kilometers as zarvan, luffy 500, monitor, dr. thrax, al-zakir etc.
the supreme court doesn't agree with you (
indian supreme court speaks against the dog menace ).
why??