SAYYID QUTB
(Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb)
Some Muslims believe that since God prohibits the worship of symbols and idols, no Christian who believes in the Trinity could be a believer. For those Muslims who not only determine Islamic theology but Christian theology as well, this becomes another reason for disrespect if not hatred of Christians.
Qutb studied in America. He opposed the racial segregation of the time, but as this quote shows, his views were very racist. Islam has historically had an ambivalent view towards Blacks.
This is an area in which there is great agreement between an Islamic extremist with Western thought with the exception of the ‘division’ of labor which in effects proscribes different roles for men and women regardless of which they prefer and does not allow a sharing. However, this view is very much in accord with Jewish and Christian Fundamentalist views. So the fundamentalists of these three religions agree with each other and disagree with their respective modernists.
Many Muslims see sex in almost everything Western. Arabs have traditionally seen themselves as superior to Blacks. The majority of the slaves purchased by Americans for transport to America to be sold were purchased from Arab Slave Traders. Saudi Arabia was the last nation to abolish slavery in the 1960 and most of the slaves were Black. Even in modern times the Muslim Arabs in Darfur were killing and ethnically cleansing Black Muslims of Sudan.
Qutb was studying at Greeley College and with some Egyptian friends want to a movie theater. Greeley, even though not in the South, practiced racial discrimination in many of their public accommodations and the Civil Rights Law would not be passed for another 15 years or so. The ticked clerk at first would not sell tickets to the dark skinned Egyptians and when one protested, the owner was called. He ruled that as long as they were not American Blacks, they could enter. But Qutb refused.
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb, known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, revolutionary, Jihadist ideologue, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging. Sayyid Qutb is considered as "the Father of Salafi-Jihadism", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of Global Jihadist organisations such as Al Qaeda and Daesh.
