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Islamic Hatred -- One Source
It's often amazing how the most insignificant people and events can turn the world upside down. Without sword or shield, without powerful position, one person or event can wield such great power as to forever change the course of history. When it's for good we applaud it, but so very often it's for evil. It is at that point that every man and woman must stand up to be counted, for perhaps it is then he or she who can turn back the tide.
David Von Drehle wrote in his article for the Smithsonian magazine web site, A Lesson in Hate, of one such man who came to see small town America but saw no good, only his own distorted reality. This he took home to Egypt with him in 1951, and there he poured forth a flood of words filled with the bile of his own corrupt vision. He called his vision jihad. This same jihad wreaks havoc even today around the world.
Von Drehle begins, "Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he
attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains. Greeley, Colorado, circa 1950
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was the last place one might think to look for signs of American decadence. Its wide streets were dotted with churches, and there wasn't a bar in the whole temperate town. But the courtly Qutb (COO-tub) saw things that others did not. He seethed at the brutishness of the people around him: the way they salted their watermelon and drank their tea unsweetened and watered their lawns."
Why do they hate us?
Von Drehle writes, "Such grumbling by an unhappy crank would be almost comical but for one fact: a direct line of influence runs from Sayyid Qutb to Osama bin Laden, and to
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The insane sickness of this one man reached the heights of the World Trade Center and descended to bombs buried beside the roads in Iraq to this very day....all this from one small-minded man who visited one small country town in a foreign country and didn't like his neighbors.
Click on the link above and read the rest of his story.
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