No sources. There’s some history there as cfgaussian said but I’m speculating based on their behavior in India which is more well known. Divide and conquer as well as well-known “controlled evolution” of Islam statements by US intelligence. I just think there’s a decent chance they spread/aided such things as they were the big meddlers at the time in question (as opposed to US who’d do it these days) but the British are or were at the time very tight lipped, they’d literally take secrets to their graves as part of their duty and anyone involved in that has been dead for some time.
To clarify by the region I meant west Asia/middle east not China/Xinjiang. West Asia being where wahabbism first appeared to my knowledge.
No sources. There’s some history there as cfgaussian said but I’m speculating based on their behavior in India which is more well known. Divide and conquer as well as well-known “controlled evolution” of Islam statements by US intelligence. I just think there’s a decent chance they spread/aided such things as they were the big meddlers at the time in question (as opposed to US who’d do it these days) but the British are or were at the time very tight lipped, they’d literally take secrets to their graves as part of their duty and anyone involved in that has been dead for some time.
To clarify by the region I meant west Asia/middle east not China/Xinjiang. West Asia being where wahabbism first appeared to my knowledge.