Wahhabism is the ideological basis of Al-Qaeda and related organizations, maintains Alexander Ignatenko, a well-known Russian researcher of radical Islam and director of the Institute of Religion and Politics.Speaking at the presentation of his book entitled Inter-Terror in Russia: Evidence, he described Wahhabism as an ‘Islamic heresy’, underlining that any attempt to present public mobilization against international terrorist threat as ‘Islamophobia’ represents a dangerous form of nihilism.
The book by Ignatenko describes special ways in which the international terrorist network has functioned, as well as its ideological basis and the main thrusts of its information policy. The author of the monograph makes an active use of primary materials found at extremist web-sites and publications and cites documents previously unknown to the public.