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
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ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/
http://www.jihadwatch.org
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memritv.org
I believe in freedom to worship, but not freedom to use worship places to promote murder, hatred and another culture extremely opposite of America. Therefore, we ought to close ALL Mosques, deport ANY non-US Citizens and build fences at the borders and background check ALL border patrol agents and US Customs personnel! Some border guard here in Arizona was arrested for taking $50,000 bribe to let an RV full of illegals and drugs over the border. Fences are worthless if the gate is the henhouse is guarded by the FOX!
Obviously your disdain for society is "sugar coated" in your statement.
Look at the bright side, your opinion can still be conveyed personally.
Qutb was repulsed by an American woman’s drunken attempts to seduce him ........."FAG"
Qutb came from a tradition of Muslim thinkers who struggled to make sense of the impact of Western civilization on the Islamic world.
Sayid Qutb, and influential Islamic writers of this time such as Abdullah Azzam emerge from a long line of writers who wanted to take Mulsims back to "true Islam."
For eg, the whole salafi movement preceeds them and they based many of their rants not just on the Koran and hadeeth itself, but on the ideological spewage of notable swine as Ibn Taymiyya (1268-1328) and his warnings against "bidah"...
There is much hypocrisy in the muslim world, just as everywhere. I watched the turn of middle class Iranians after the abdication of the Shah. The "across-the border" behavior of young Saudi Sunnis in the modernized gulf states is inconsistent with their home mores.
Shiites in Bahrain are allowd to celebrate their penitent and bloody Ashuram parades which were forbidden in Saudi. The differences between various Muslim branches is quite extreme.
Can someone more familiar with Islam speak to this?
$30,000,000 and a directive from Washington and we can rid ourselves of this fault. ; )
I have no disdain for our great American society. I do have contempt for career politicians that allowed the failures leading up to and including Sept. 11th. And then claimed they were not authorized to declare war. Followed the whole charade up with the "report".
We don't say please the second time.
There are Amish in this country that don't like what's going on but they don't blow up buildings and cut off heads.
As usual .. the real answer is IT'S ALL AMERICA'S FAULT. If we were so un-perfect .. then he wouldn't have ended up hating us.
I'm sick of this whining about why people hate America. Everything in life is a choice - he chose to hate us - not because of what we were, but because he grew up in a backward culture and he had no coping skills or ability to try to change things.
I don't.
They declared war....now let them really experience WAR.
Yes, we should. If their intentions where understood by more people in the US even people in the DU would give support for this war. I have no doubt in my mind about that.
As it is now MSN has been fighting hard to propagandize the ugly truth.
Osama doesn't need a reason to hate the US, he's a slime beyatch.
Excuses, excuses!
If you don't like the system, you try to change it.
You don't try to kill it!
Another socialist greedy for power.
OK lefties listen up. We have now heard the feeeeeelings of the terrorist scum, and now understand how they feeeeeeel. The terrorist scum hates American popular culture, so shouldn't it be right to just get rid of it, so we don't make them feeeeeeel bad? After all, it is our fault we got attacked many times right?
Producing the inevitable rage, humiliation, et cetera, and inspiring his invention of explosive chastity belts for men.
Can someone more familiar with Islam speak to this?
Hopefully, prayerfully, in a generation, there will be no one to answer such questions except the chirping crickets, and the wind, blowing the drifting sand through the rubble and stumps of buildings in what used to be Teheran, etc.
The terms "Shiites" and "Sunnis" might be vaguely remembered as we now may strain to remember Betty Boop and Raggedy Ann.
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