Egypt is the home of the Muslim Brotherhood. Credo: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Egypt is the home of Sayyid Qutb the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s.
Sayyid Qutb authored “Milestones”:
“If Islam is again to play the role of the leader of man- kind, then it is necessary that the Muslim community be restored to its original form.”
“The Muslim community today is neither capable of nor required to present before mankind great genius in material inventions, which will make the world bow its head before its supremacy and thus re-establish once more its world leadership. Europe’s creative mind is far ahead in this area, and at least for a few centuries to come we cannot expect to compete with Europe and attain supremacy over it in these fields.”
“Hence we must have some other quality, that quality which modern civilization does not possess.”
Sayyid Qutb and his brother Muhammad Qutb were arrested in July 1965 for their alleged co-leadership in a plot to kill leading political and cultural figures in Egypt and overthrow the government. Sayyid Qutb was executed in August 1966. Muhammad Qutb was released from prison in 1972 and fled to Saudi Arabia taking refuge with the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the early 1970’s it was common to find members of the Muslim Brotherhood teaching at Saudi schools and universities.
Osama bin Laden regularly attended weekly public lectures by Muhammad Qutb (Sayyid Qutb’s brother) at King Abdulaziz University and regularly read Sayyid Qutb.
[ Yah, more foreign aid will solve the problem. ]
If you would like to see/read “Milestones” by Sayyid Qutb, visit what is purported, among other things, as an “islamic environmental website” in Canada named “YOUNG MUSLIMS”.
http://www.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/milestones/hold/index_2.asp
[ Maybe we should increase aid to Canada? ]