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[cap'n queasy]

This man was the thinker from whose philosophy the modern Arab Nationalist/Socialist movement gets it's impetus.

His dogma is the driving force behind men such as Usama bin Laden and groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

He established "many complex and contraversial views on several traditional Islamic views", in essence transforming Islam into a tool to promote a socialist agenda among the disenfranchised of the Middle East.

Understanding this man and his philosophy is key to understanding the conflict in the Middle East. It is so much more than a religious conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb

[cap'n queasy]

I guess no one is interested in discussing some of the core political philosophy behind the radical Islamic agenda.

Hmm.

[Ssushi]

cap'n queasy wrote: I guess no one is interested in discussing some of the core political philosophy behind the radical Islamic agenda.

Hmm.

Perhaps not on the basis of a Wiki entry...

[ToonArmyIsComing]

Cap'n, I don't see how he is fundamental approach to politics is any different from Evangelical Christians and the Orthodox Jews. He essentially promoted his ideas in similar ways. All three factions view their religion to be the perfect social system providing the best solutions to everything. And all three want religious-based governments that promote the principles of their religious beliefs.

The difference in the three lies in their different approach to the details.

[cap'n queasy]

Quote: Cap'n, I don't see how he is fundamental approach to politics is any different from Evangelical Christians and the Orthodox Jews.

That's ridiculous. I don't know any Christian or Jew who advocates a theocracy, and they certainly don't advocate waging war on or killing anyone who opposes them in this goal.

[thatisnotme]

cap'n queasy wrote: Quote: Cap'n, I don't see how he is fundamental approach to politics is any different from Evangelical Christians and the Orthodox Jews.

That's ridiculous. I don't know any Christian or Jew who advocates a theocracy, and they certainly don't advocate waging war on or killing anyone who opposes them in this goal.

Agree with that. I would also add that Evangelical Christians are concerned with religious matters in the apocalyptic prophecies of the Bible. They are looking forward to those events, but have no desire to take political means to bring about the end of the world. It is more with the salvation of their soul that they are pre-occupied.

[ToonArmyIsComing]

cap'n queasy wrote: Quote: Cap'n, I don't see how he is fundamental approach to politics is any different from Evangelical Christians and the Orthodox Jews.

That's ridiculous. I don't know any Christian or Jew who advocates a theocracy, and they certainly don't advocate waging war on or killing anyone who opposes them in this goal.

Not so. Though there are differences, at the end of the day, there are so many similarities in that both want to have a moral based system ruling the country and spread their morality as far and wide as they can.

Besides, it amuses me to hear they "don't advocate waging war on or killing anyone". How many wars have been waged on opposing ideologies with the Christian fundamentalists solidly supporting the US government? Many many wars.

Also, a democratic country full of evangelical Christians or Orthodox Jews will be very little different than a full theocracy.

Though I agree that in terms of the use of violence, there are fundamental differences. But that is down to the fact that the evangelicals are mostly living in industrialized countries while the Radical Islamism of Qutb was developed as a reactionary force to the colonial context that it was developed in.