Aim of The ISCA
The ISCA strives to integrate what they see as "traditional" sufi scholarship in resolving contemporary issues affecting the maintenance of Islamic beliefs in a modern, secular society. The Council states that it promotes traditional sufi Islamic thought. It explicitly rejects puritanical forms of Islam (whom they attack as being wahhabi), such as taught by the salafi movement, for being too 'harsh' against modernity and what they believe to be 'good' innovations in Islam, as well as claiming that the wahhabi condone terrorism. However the Salafi scholars across the globe espouse they are simply teaching that Islam should be taken from the sunnah as understood by the earliest Muslims, the salaf, as their way of Islam was free from heretical innovations and do not condone terrorism in any form.
The ISCA propagates a conspiracy that terrorist organizations who espouse Islamist ideologies are in fact wahhabi, however these slogans and chants against the entitled "wahhabi" groups typically lack empirical evidence.
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