Qutb

It is surrounded by several other ancient and medieval structures and ruins, collectively known as Qutb complex.

Archive 2009-04-01 Jak Boumans 2009

It is surrounded by several other ancient and medieval structures and ruins, collectively known as Qutb complex.

BPN 1326 2009 WSA Grand Jury - Day 3 Jak Boumans 2009

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen recently called Qutb a "racist, a bigot, a misogynist, an anti-Semite and a fervent hater of most things American," all based on his time in the U.S.

USATODAY.com News 2011

If this is correct, the prospect of there being figures such as Qutb, who reject the right to religious freedom, need not undermine the legitimacy of the state's coercively imposing basic liberal commitments on a religiously pluralistic population.

Religion and Political Theory Eberle, Chris 2008

Were an agent such as Qutb reasonable and adequately informed, he would have sufficient reason from his own perspective to support coercive laws that protect the right to religious liberty; but also:

Religion and Political Theory Eberle, Chris 2008

That's why the founding fathers of radical Islam — such as Qutb and Mawdudi — borrowed heavily from what Ian Buruma and Avi Margalit call "Occidentalism" — an ideology with its origins in Heidegger's criticism of the West, adopted by Japanese fascists, the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge and, more recently, Al Qaeda and their ilk.

Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

If respect for persons requires that each coercive law be justified to those reasonable persons subject to that law, and if a person such as Qutb were a citizen of a liberal democracy, then the argument from respect implies that laws that protect the right to religious freedom are morally illegitimate, as they lack moral justification ” at least for agents such as Qutb. [

Religion and Political Theory Eberle, Chris 2008

Alas, for all his privilege, we know well the trail of Ayman Zawahiri—activism in secondary school, fanatical religiosity, and unbound admiration for the martyred Sayyid Qutb.

Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor Fouad Ajami 2011

In 1966, the signal figure of the Islamists, Sayyid Qutb, the most talented of their expositors, was sent to the gallows.

Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor Fouad Ajami 2011

The current Sunni terrorist movement against the west was mostly started by Sayyid Qutb, who merged the expansionist goals and terrorist means of the communists with the universal goal of Islam for world dominance.

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