Sprinkling grass was an element in the creation of Radical Islam.
Sayyid Qutb spent 6 months in an ideal small college town (Greeley Colorado) prior to becoming radicalized and one of the things he found particularly disgusting was seeing people sprinkle their grass.
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snip...And through it all – right up until the day in 1966 when he was executed – Qutb remembered Greeley. What he had seen in those few months stayed with him through the decades and filled him with fear, disgust, and contempt. What he saw in Greeley made him hate America.
The story doesn’t end on the Egyptian gallows. In death, Qutb’s work became even more influential. Milestones, his best-known book, has been published in nearly 2,000 editions, and though many of his books have been banned in Egypt and other moderate Arab states, millions continue to illicitly circulate throughout the Middle East and over the Internet.
His writings have become both the inspiration and the blueprint for the fundamentalist jihad that now engulfs the world. Qutb’s work is to militant Islam what Das Kapital was to communism or Mein Kampf was to the Nazis. In American terms, he is Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine, all rolled into one. His disciples include Anwar Sadat’s assassins, and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up several New York landmarks. They include militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And they include a Saudi militant named Osama bin Laden.
In the days following 9/11, the question on countless American lips was, “Why do they hate us?” Given our collective shock and grief, it’s understandable that we weren’t really looking for an answer. But if you really want to know why Osama bin Laden hates America, you might first ask why Sayyid Qutb hated America. And to answer that question, you’d have to go to Greeley. ...snip
http://www.5280.com/magazine/2003/06/al-qaeda%E2%80%99s-greeley-roots?page=full |
