TIL that after an Egyptian man witnessed US lawncare practices and heard the song "Baby it's Cold Outside" he became so incensed with American culture he went home and invented Salafi jihadism
TIL that after an Egyptian man witnessed US lawncare practices and heard the song "Baby it's Cold Outside" he became so incensed with American culture he went home and invented Salafi jihadism
Completely understandable how those things could drive a person over the edge tbh
Issued a fatwa on touching grass
in Egypt you can only touch white, unmelanated soil, which I expect crackers would enjoy more
Angry Horus and Set noises
Back in 1950, the Egyptian author and religious theorist Sayyid Qutb spent two years as an exchange student at a teacher’s college in Greeley, Colorado.
I've been saying this for years: Greely and its consequences have been disastrous for the human race.
This is fucking hilarious lmao.
But seriously. The quotes included don’t necessarily imply any resentment towards the song due to religious reasons. He just describes what’s happening, and if anything, he is upset that the man is being creepy about the woman. Not defending him at all, I’m sure he really did hate the song because it’s haram, but it’s a bit weird to extrapolate that from a tame description
Sayyid Qutb's criticism of women was that they were flaunting their sexuality.
The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs—and she shows all this and does not hide it
Sayyid Qutb was a muslim clerical fascist and Nasser's largest black spot is his collaboration with him, washed out only slightly by having him executed.
The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs—and she shows all this and does not hide it
Sounds like your typical incel.
Nasser truly was a land of contrasts
Did they include that in the article? I must’ve missed it
I personally feel like the centuries long western imperialist intervention in the Middle East and North Africa had more to do with the growth of jihad, but maybe it was Bob Hope
you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the guy who invented Salafism
Adam Curtis’ The Power Of Nightmares talks about this
Just... be careful with Adam Curtis' stuff.
He stitches together convenient narratives but often quite loosely and he promotes a very idealistic notion of human history, as in idealism with a capital I, as opposed to a materialist one. Obviously this comes with Great Man of History mythologising.
That's not to say that everything he says is false or wrong but it should be taken as infotainment rather than being the final word on matters.
His recent special on post soviet Russia was pretty haunting. Like it genuinely creeps me out seeing so much hopelessness and nihilism on that scale lol. I don’t care about what he had to say, but just the footage alone makes me depressed. I don’t know how anyone can see shit like that and still think the RF is better than the USSR or be confused as to why Russia is the way it is now.
It’s not theory and he’s a storyteller first and foremost. His best is All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace anyway.
Today I Was Reminded that for a while this Power of Nightmares stuff had me thinking that all Muslims were “the bad guys”.
“To most people watching this dance, it would have been an innocent dance of happiness,” documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis observes in his film, The Power of Nightmares. “But Qutb saw something else. The dancers in front of him were tragic lost souls. They believed they were free, but in reality they were trapped by their own selfish and greedy desires.”
Love it when a Western article says things like "To most people". Subtly telling the reader "Here is what you and other normal people ahould believe, unlike those barbaric non-westerners who are definitely not most people."
Not agree with radical Islam or anything, I just hate how the article assumes we all think the West is just hunky-dory, especially in 1950