Do you care about what happens to you tomorrow ? If you don ' t care about who you are when you die and are reborn , why do you care about who you are when you wake up tomorrow morning ? <| sep |> I would recommend you read up on Salafism from Salafi sources , rather than what other people may say about it . like a cult in terms of imams , sheikhs , and ustazes being accorded an undue level of reverence . Are teachers in Scandinavia given an undue level of reverence ? Does Neil DeGrasse Tyson not deserve that reverence for educating people ? Imams , sheikhs , and ustazes are people of a higher educational caliber , like priests , or rabbis . The religion , nor the topic should really matter , educated teacher types should be respected , or is that only for cults ? They work like child grooms , looking for the unwitting to sink their teeth into , then suggest , Hey , maybe you ' d like to blow yourself up ? Lol . Salafists , creeping sharia , out to turn our kids into suicide bombers ! Great way to describe a revivalist movement . But to anyone interested in what salafism is . It could be a suicide cult , as this Ex Muslim describes or , we could see what wikipedia says ! Although that could be easily influenced by Saudi brainwashing by Imams , sheiks and ustazes teachers . The Salafi movement or Salafist movement or Salafism is an ultraconservative reform movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Arabia in the first half of the 18 th century , against a background of European colonialism . It advocated a return to the traditions of the devout ancestors the salaf . The Salafist doctrine can be summed up as taking a fundamentalist approach to Islam , emulating the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers alsalaf alsalih , the ' pious forefathers '. They reject religious innovation , or bid ' ah , and support the implementation of sharia Islamic law .