The Saudis have spread their tentacles all over the globe, from Sudan, Pakistan and even Indonesia. Radical Saudi funded Wahhabism is gaining ground in the more moderate parts of the Islamic world.
In all fairness, though the Gulf cash is a pretty malignant influence, Barelvi Islam is a distinctly South Asian movement, closer to Sufism than the ultra-Salafi Wahhabi movement. Even Deobandi Islam, although far closer to Salafism is more rooted in old anti-British resistance politics than the al-Wahab. The Sauds, for their part, fund the Ahl-i Hadith in Pakistan.
eeeks, I was kind of hoping to be corrected/wrong there....are they really the moderates? That's.....that's not good. Why is it such a broken religion and what white person/people are we blaming for it this decade? Still Dubya/Cheney/"neocons" or have we transferred all that blame to Trump/Putin/___insert group name here___ yet?
Perhaps "moderates" is the wrong word in this context - it often gets caught up in the Western obsession with Sufis being a cool and hippy alternative to evil Salafis. Barelvis are more the traditionalist alternative to the revivalist Deobandis (like, an extremely loose comparison would be an old-fashioned saint worshipping Catholic vs a passionate and charismatic Pentecostal).
