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How a bad U.S. visit influenced ‘Osama’s brain’
MSNBC ^ | 11:36 a.m. ET Oct. 7, 2005 | Daniel Strieff

Posted on 10/07/2005 3:15:11 PM PDT by echoBoomer

Four years after President Bush launched a war to oust Osama bin Laden from his hideout in Afghanistan, many are mystified how a polite son of a millionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia could turn into the world’s most wanted terrorist.

According to many experts, a clue may lie in the life and works of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic ideologue who was radicalized after an overwhelmingly negative experience in the United States and later imprisoned and executed by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime in Egypt in 1966...Qutb’s journey to radicalism started in 1948 when the Egyptian government sent the young school inspector to study in the United States.

The time proved to be formative for Qutb, who had closely followed American popular culture and at the time viewed the United States as a somewhat positive influence, especially when contrasted with the European colonialism he had witnessed growing up in the Middle East.

But things started to sour even before he reached U.S. shores — Qutb was repulsed by an American woman’s drunken attempts to seduce him during his sea voyage and, once on U.S. soil, he was shocked at the racism he encountered in the still-segregated country.

Qutb found himself more and more outraged by what he saw as American greed

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; binladin; islam; jihad; jihadpropaganda; lamestreammedia; liberalmedia; liberalmida; mediapropaganda; muslim; obl; osama; qutb; rop; sayidqutb; sayyidqutb; swine; terrorism; terrorists; ubl; usama
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1 posted on 10/07/2005 3:15:11 PM PDT by echoBoomer
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To: echoBoomer
Qutb

he needs to buy a vowel. and what is this, an apologist for terrorism? I can't stomach that.

2 posted on 10/07/2005 3:18:29 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: echoBoomer

For his next homily...

Why does Satan hate God?....(hint it aint really all the pointy tailed guys fault-just ask him)


3 posted on 10/07/2005 3:20:30 PM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: echoBoomer
I can give you the top 10 reasons Omama I'm Useless hates America:

10. Freedom

9. Freedom

8. Freedom

7. Freedom

6. Freedom

5. Freedom

4. Israel

3. Freedom

2. Women are equal

1. Freedom

4 posted on 10/07/2005 3:21:29 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: echoBoomer; am

Please correct title to actual one:

"How a bad U.S. visit influenced ‘Osama’s brain’"


5 posted on 10/07/2005 3:22:12 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: the invisib1e hand
“Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice ... because humanity is devoid of those vital values which are necessary not only for its healthy development but also for its real progress. ... [The West] knows that it does not possess anything which will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence. … It is essential for mankind to have new leadership!”

Could have been written by Nietzsche, or even Hitler.

I find it ironic that these islamo-fascists are repulsed by US "blue-state" culture and ended up picking a fight with the US "red-state" people.

6 posted on 10/07/2005 3:22:25 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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7 posted on 10/07/2005 3:23:04 PM PDT by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

You need to add in their somewhere that we are powerful and that we are infidels.


8 posted on 10/07/2005 3:23:13 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (trust but verify)
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To: echoBoomer

"Returning to Egypt in 1951, he wrote a book, “The America I Have Seen,” in which he denounced, among other things, jazz music and what he called the overt sexuality in American culture, particularly among women."


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That's it, it's the fault of jazz.


9 posted on 10/07/2005 3:24:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: echoBoomer

"Returning to Egypt in 1951, he wrote a book, “The America I Have Seen,” in which he denounced, among other things, jazz music and what he called the overt sexuality in American culture, particularly among women."


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That's it, it's the fault of jazz.


10 posted on 10/07/2005 3:24:21 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
I find it ironic that these islamo-fascists are repulsed by US "blue-state" culture and ended up picking a fight with the US "red-state" people.

A testament to the irrationality of those who see "red-state people" as the enemy.

11 posted on 10/07/2005 3:25:27 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: echoBoomer

Does anyone really care WHY these Islamist lunatics hate us?

I don't.
They declared war....now let them really experience WAR.

I just want them dead......LOTS of them, DEAD.
If the "good, peace loving Muslims" won't contain or control the bastards in their "religion" -- then lots of good Muslims may experience the same fate as the non-Nazi Germans and non-war supporting Japanese....

Semper Fi


12 posted on 10/07/2005 3:25:29 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
I find it ironic that these islamo-fascists are repulsed by US "blue-state" culture and ended up picking a fight with the US "red-state" people.

Yeah.

The truth is, they understand almost nothing about this country.

13 posted on 10/07/2005 3:26:21 PM PDT by THX 1138
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To: echoBoomer

Why doesn't MSNBC do a feature on "Why Americans Hate Bin Laden"


14 posted on 10/07/2005 3:26:32 PM PDT by Alouette (Militant Neocon Pundit)
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To: Alouette
Why doesn't MSNBC do a feature on "Why Americans Hate Bin Laden"

Shouldn't this thread merit at least a semi-barf alert?

15 posted on 10/07/2005 3:28:49 PM PDT by THX 1138
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To: echoBoomer; All
"Osama - Yo' Mama"

Click to listen.

17 posted on 10/07/2005 3:29:54 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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To: echoBoomer

I quit caring why on September 11th, 2001. I will never modify my opinion. Our venerated congress failed us as Americans. Every last one of the worthless POS's punted to the executive branch. Throw ALL the rascals out.
I remember ABSCAM. Nothing has changed since then.


18 posted on 10/07/2005 3:30:35 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: echoBoomer
Why Bin Laden Hates the US

To confirm that evil does exist.

19 posted on 10/07/2005 3:32:54 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: the invisib1e hand

Relatives of Qutb that seemed to like America.

20 posted on 10/07/2005 3:35:15 PM PDT by edpc
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