Another interesting article about the Sufi Muslims and

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why we should embrace them, not push them away. Sufis are the Muslim sect associated with the deal in NYC.

For the Islamists -- for hard-line fundamentalists like the Saudi Wahhabis and the Taliban -- the Sufis are deadly enemies, who draw on practices alien to the Quran. Where Islamists rise to power, Sufis are persecuted or driven underground; but where Sufis remain in the ascendant, it is the radical Islamist groups who must fight to survive.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/25/mystical_power/?page=1