Said Qutb on the Arts in America (Muslim B'hood Founder on 'Negro Music')

The Hudson Institute ^ | 1951 | Said Qutb (translated by Daniel Burns

[Titus-Maximus]

Said Qutb is quite the cultural critic, coming from a place and a religion that proscribed music and art from its very beginnings. How does spending one’s life in the cold, dark, stone tomb of Islam prepare someone for a life as a cultural critic? His intellectual foundations were devoid of the stimuli of music and painting, yet Qutb, forges ahead, undisturbed at the ultimate hypocrisy of his position. He obviously doesn’t compare America to Egyptian art, since that ceased when Islam took over 1400 years ago, but European art, much of which was Christian inspired and Church sponsored.

The other disturbing element is the “primitive inclinations” of the Negro that Qutb talks about. I am not Chris Matthews but that sounds awfully racist to me.

Not so surprising to learn that other translations had gaps in the text.

[ConservativeDude]

A Muslim is going to lecture us on culture?

This is The Onion, right?

[dennisw]

Said Qutb was gay. Check out wikipedia

[chooseascreennamepat]

Hey sand tick, BITE ME!

[dfwgator]

Sounds like something his Nazi pals would have said.

[PGR88]

In the great majority of American films, one sees manifestly primitive subjects and primitive excitement; this is true of police/crime films and cowboy films. As for high, skillful films, such as “Gone with the Wind,” “Wuthering Heights,” “The Song of Bernadette,” and such, they are few in comparison with what America produces.

Did he ever experience American TV? He would have absolutely loved "Charlie's Angels."

[apillar]

“Jazz” music....is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other.

Nope, that's why they invented Rap and Hip Hop...

[End Times Sentinel]

Said Qutb was gay. Check out wikipedia

I don't see anything in there about him being a 'mo. Am I gonna have to add it myself?

[rktman]

I have known about this piece of human excrement for quite a while. When I mention “it” to folks they give a puzzled look. If you do some looking you’ll find that he was indeed instrumental in re-starting the “muslime” brotherhood on it’s road to terror after many years waiting in the shadows. If I recall correctly he went to school in Colorado and was appalled at the way the girls carried on there. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong on the Colorado connection. I seem to remember that he was a hero to OBL. Or was it BHO??????

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. (Post Christmas greetings)

[Thommas]

“Jazz” music is.. music that the Negroes invented..

What a complete waste of bandwidth. My brief forays into musical epidemiology taught me that Jazz was a derivative of Jewish Kletzmer music (originally from the Old World), that early Negro musicians picked up when learning to play instruments from Jewish instructors.

Jazz is in 4/4 time, as is Kletzmer, while African tribal music is in, typically, 3/8 time.

Said is a monumental boob.

[Waverunner]

I’m glad some white southerner didn’t write this. Of course if they did, the NYT would have massive headlines about the racist south.

[miss marmelstein]

Thanks for posting! Although - as always - no matter what subject Muslims are writing or talking about (even my favorite: culture) they manage to bore the be-***** out of me.

The beauty of Western society is that the greatest art has been made accessible to most Westerners. If you go to the Louvre, you will see hundreds of Europeans and Americans passing by the Mona Lisa. They may not understand it’s importance in art history, but they’ve just been exposed to the potential of developing an interest in the visual arts. So this dopey idea that hundreds of people passing before a painting makes it a meaningless experience just doesn’t cut it with me.

Also, I am amused that a so-called cultural critic would laud “Song of Bernadette” as a great work of art while apparently dismissing a film like “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (cowboy movie!) or “The Godfather” (crime movie!). I think I’ll stick with Pauline Kael.

[Rooivalk]

These jihadist bastards have been racist from the start. I cannot understand why any Black person would adopt islam. It should be recalled that the islamists continue to practice slavery in the Sudan on Black Africans even to this day.

[Beagle8U]

” I cannot understand why any Black person would adopt islam.”

For the same reason they vote for Demonrats, stupidity?

[dennisw]

Gay closeted hysterical is what he seems to me-—>>>>>
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from WIKIPEDIA:
Though Islam gave him much peace and contentment,[16] he suffered from respiratory and other health problems throughout his life and was known for “his introvertedness, isolation, depression and concern.” In appearance, he was “pale with sleepy eyes.”[17] Qutb never married, in part because of his steadfast religious convictions. While the urban Egyptian society he lived in was becoming more Westernized, Qutb believed that ‘the current ideas of the society and its prevalent traditions apply great pressure - back-breaking pressure, especially in the case of women; the Muslim woman is really under extreme and oppressive pressure’.[18] Qutb joked to his readers that he was never able to find a woman and had to reconcile himself to bachelorhood.[19]

[denydenydeny]

“Jazz” music is his music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations

It cracks me up that idiots from Cat Stevens to Jihad Johnny Walker credited black music with turning them toward Islam.

[End Times Sentinel]

I suspect a HUGE portion of jihadists, are indeed, homos. “Women for breeding, boys for pleasure” and the act of child rape perpetuates itself in a new generation of homosexualists.

I'd imagine that the multitude of contradictions in jihadi life (allah telling them they are the best amongst people, yet they live in sewage pits, that homosexualism is sin yet they all take part in it) might be the cause of some of the rampant psychosis.

Still, I'll go into wikipedia later and make it clear for anyone to see that this guy was a sodomite.

[dennisw]

You could say “Rumors abounded in Cairo of the 1950s that Sayeid Qytb was was a repressed, unrequited homosexual”

[Mr. Jeeves]

Who is this Calvinist with the Arab name? :)

[thecodont]

So this dopey idea that hundreds of people passing before a painting makes it a meaningless experience just doesn’t cut it with me.

The author has not described my experience with art museums. I've seen many people linger before paintings, sculptures, etc. and discuss them. A goodly amount are listening to the rented audio commentary on each work. There is much enjoyment and contemplation, not just a crowd of people looking to get their cultural tickets punched.