The article attempts to analyze how indigenous Islamic identity can become an effective tool in the fight against religious extremist propaganda. Proceeding from the analysis of Wahhabism as a political movement, the author demonstrates that Muslims who know little or nothing about their religion can become easy prey to extremist propaganda in Russia and Germany. The article provides definitions of Wahhabism given by a number of researchers, analyzes its main characteristics and methods. The possibility of using Wahhabism as a political ideology to gain power isalso considered. The purpose of the author is to make a comparative analysis of the strategies used by the government and the Ummah in Russia and Germany in the fight against Wahhabism as an extremist political movement, and to determine whether there are similarities between them. The article clearly demonstrates that the active participation of the Ummah in the development of interreligious and interethnic dialogue, as well as the provision of proper