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It maybe be ignorance on my part, but it seems the various Islamist movements all associate in the mind of the public with Saudi-style Islam and all have similar political platforms differing only in just how far they want to carry things out.
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a wide-spread rival Islamist movement form that also is based on interpretation of Islam but one that is opposed to the Saudi-associated movements?
For example, I was initially wondering if a different outcome to the Iranian Revolution could result in groups like People's Mujahedin of Iran and the coming to power and promoting an economically-leftist version of Islamism which would come to rival the Wahhabist-inspired movements. But I then I realized that the movement would inevitably be associated with Shia Islam and thus likely limits it's spread amongst Sunni.
The other thought I had was "what if Sultan-Galiev had not been marginalized and come to develop & promote some Islamo-Marxism hybrid ideology" but I do not know anything about him other than what Wikipedia wrote.
So what do you think? Is there any way to get 2 or more rival "streams" of Islamism?*