9-11 Commission Recognizes Modern Source of Islamist Ideology (Sayyid Qutb)

9-11 Commission ^ | 7/22/2004 | 9-11 Commission

[Pyro7480]

I'm glad the 9-11 Commission named this guy in their report. I bought the hard copy today, and spotted this reference.

[Pyro7480]

Sayyid Qutb ping!

[swarthyguy]

Ah, yes, the inspirer of modern jihad, disgusted by America, terrified of American women, a real numbnuts arsehole.

Hung by Nasser.

[Gefreiter]

"For a good introduction to Qutb, see National Public Radio broadcast..."

Screw NPR.

If anyone's interested, have a peek at "Muslim Extremism in Egypt" by Gilles Kepel.

[elbucko]

...a real numbnuts arsehole.

It appears to always be a recombinant nerd who propagates a theory that results in massive suffering.

[Bahbah]

I wonder how one pronounces the name "Qutb."

[swarthyguy]

A book called A Fury for God by Malise Ruthven has a very nice chapter(s) describing his voyage to America, his stay in Greeley Colorado and his subsequent disgust with Jazz, (DUKE Ellington, of all people), American life and particularly the women, always the women.

Sometimes I think the way to beat jihad is to make sure all the young jihadis in madrassas get laid.

[swarthyguy]

Kuttub. Koo toob

[Bahbah]

Thanks. I had it worked out as something like kut bee, but I just knew that was wrong.

[Taliesan]

America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as “your agents.” Bin Ladin has stated flatly,“Our fight against these governments is not separate from our fight against you.”

In other words, bin Laden is a conspiracy theorist. Like all conspiracy rheorists, his intellect is too feeble to understand the mysterious forces which move events, so he ascribes everything to some powerful, many-tentacled evil. Any shortage of evidence that the octopus is behind this or that event is in itself just confirmation that the octopus hides well.

The "root cause" of Islamic terrorism against the West is the same as the "root cause" of Oliver Stone movies: gross stupidity.

"The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts...[he] ascribes all his failures to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy."

H.L. Mencken

[Taliesan]

It appears to always be a recombinant nerd who propagates a theory that results in massive suffering.

More truth in that than you know. Marx was apparently a mega-loser.

Read "Intellectuals", by Paul Johnson, for the dark side of the Great Man theory of history.

[elbucko]

Sometimes I think the way to beat jihad is to make sure all the young jihadis in madrassas get laid.

Point well taken. Hitler had a problem with women, so does Clinton. It seems that the inability to be social with women and ignore the sexual undertones that are always present is a common thread among these and other dysfunctional persons in history.

[elbucko]

Like all conspiracy rheorists, his intellect is too feeble to understand the mysterious forces which move events, so he ascribes everything to some powerful, many-tentacled evil.

Thats good. The point is well expressed.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[elbucko]

Read "Intellectuals", by Paul Johnson, for the dark side of the Great Man theory of history.

Thanks for the tip. I have long held that those who ruin mankind and cause suffering are puny of reasoning.

[Uncle Miltie]

I wonder how one pronounces the name "Qutb."

Its the same sound made when spitting.

[Bahbah]

I am laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes.

[usurper]

American life and particularly the women, always the women.

It like someone developed an entire religion around the concept “Girls have Coodies”

[VOA]

bump