أهل التصوف و الجهاد

There is a common misconception that Sufi's are the docile, "good", Muslims that the West can use to consolidate their exploitation of the Islamic world. Or that Sufi's are pre-modern hippies or that they have no interest in politics. This, I am discovering slowly, is in fact not true. The video clip has been sent to me by F, (thank you) along with many helpful resources. I thought I would translate some of the names that appear and the school that they belonged to (the list is in the correct order), in fact I hear there is even a group in the Iraqi resistance called the Naqshabandi resistance movement that carry out operations against the Americans. Sufi Muslim's have been at the forefront of fighting against empire and occupation throughout our history:

Yousef bin Tafsheen Sunni-Maliki Sufi
Aleb Arslan Ash'arite Sufi
The Seljuk state was an Ash'arite Sufi state
Nour el Din Zenki Ash'ari Shaf'i Sufi
Salah al Din Ayoubi Ash'ari Shaf'i Sufi
Muthafar Quturz Ash'arite Sufi
al Zaher Bibars Ash'arite Sufi
Sultan Bayzij "the Thunderstorm" Maturidi Hanafi Sufi
Sultan Muhammad al Fateh Maturidi Hanafi Sufi
Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver Maturidi Hanafi Sufi
Sultan Selim II Maturidi Hanafi Sufi
Sultan Abd el Hamid II Maturidi Hanafi Sufi
Kheir al Din Barbarossa Maturidi Sufi
The Ottoman Empire was a Maturidi Sufi empire
Imam Shamil Daghestani Maturidi Hanafi Naqshabandi Sufi
Hassan al Banna Ash'arite Sufi
Sheikh Izzidine al Qassam Ash'arite Shaf'i Sufi
Abd al Qadir al Jaza'iri Ash'arite Malki Sufi
Muhammad bin Abd al Karim al Khitabi Ash'arite Malki Sufi
Omar al Mukhtar Ash'arite Malki Sufi