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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hi, I'm Alan Saunders. This year marks the 25th birthday of al-Qaeda, and its particular ...

Writing in the WaPo, Terrence McCoy discusses how ISIS’s savagery — e.g., the seven year old Australian boy, taken to the jihad by his father, holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier (click ...

I have not read D'Souza's latest, but if reviews are accurate, I am very disappointed in him. Barnett notes that D'Souza discusses Sayyid Qutb and how his disgust with American culture helped lead us ...

Sayyid Qutb on trial in Cairo in 1966. Fifty years ago this week, the intellectual godfather of modern Islamic fundamentalism was executed in Egypt. But to truly understand Sayyid Qutb's trajectory to ...

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. By John Calvert. Hurst & Co; 256 pages; £25. To be published in America by Columbia University Press in August. Buy from Amazon.co.uk PRE-EMINENTLY ...

Toth, an anthropologist who has lived in Egypt and studied Egyptian culture, and is currently an advisor at the new Abu Dhabi campus of New York University, has written a holistic, comprehensive ...

Sayyid Qutb near the end of his life. A book called "Milestones" is essential reading for today's radical Islamic terrorists. It was written by an Egyptian scholar, Sayyid Qutb, who was executed 50 ...

1906 — Born in the village of Musha in Assyout Province, Egypt. 1918 — Finished primary education, then dropped out of school because of a revolution of 1919. 1920 — Moved to Cairo, Egypt, to live ...

According to the report of the 9/11 Commission, Osama Bin Laden’s world-view “relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb”. Qutb was the foremost spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his ...