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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, you don't coddle religious fanatics of any stripe. [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)Have you ever read any of his work?
Qutb was a leading member of the Muslim brotherhood, and he provided the philosophic impetus behind fundamentalist Islam. He despised Christianity because it was a religion that separated the sacred and the secular, "render unto Cesar what is Cesar's and render unto God what is God's". He thought that was a faulty basis for any society, that all of society should be united in glorifying God.
He felt that women were shunning their responsibility to shape human character through child rearing if a woman decided to follow her heart and have a career.
He looked upon the West as degenerate, a cancer that should be eradicated, because ours was a secular society, a secular culture. He believed that a worldwide caliphate, guided by Sharia Law, should be established, and that if necessary, violence was to be used in order to establish it.
Here are a few references for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Qutb
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Sayyid%20Qutb&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ASayyid%20Qutb
I suggest that if you want to get a true feel for Qutb's philosophy and ideology, you read both "Milestones" and "Social Justice in Islam".
The point is, no, I'm not spewing hogwash. There is an ever growing group of fundamentalist Muslims who do indeed hate us for our society and culture, and that fact has been been true for decades now, long before WWII when we first got seriously involved in the Middle East(until WWII, Britain was the main shit-stirrer in the Middle East, we had enough oil and didn't need theirs until after the war).
The thing is, as radical as Qutb was, there are those now who denounce him for not being radical enough.
http://www.sayyidqutb.com/
Yet these ever more radicalized sects all have one thing in common with the Muslim Brotherhood and Qutb, a distinct hatred for Western Society and a desire to remake it all in their own image of a religious caliphate dominated by Sharia Law.
That isn't hogwash, that isn't hype, that is the truth. Read the literature, and judge for yourself.