re: #375 Gus

How is it possible to start the task of reviving Islam? It is necessary that there should be a vanguard which sets out … and keeps walking on the path, marching through the vast ocean of Jahiliyyah (pagan ignorance) which has encompassed the entire world.

The Islamic society is born out of a [vanguard] movement … the origin of this movement [is the faith of] a single individual … As soon as this single individual believes in this faith, the Islamic community comes into existence (potentially). When the number of Believers reaches three, then this faith tells them, `Now you are a community, a distinct Islamic community, distinct from that Jahili society …
These three individuals increase to ten, the ten to a hundred, the hundred to a thousand, and the thousand increase to twelve thousand.

…the exploitation of individuals and nations due to greed for wealth and imperialism under the capitalist systems are but a corollary of rebellion against God’s authority. Look at capitalism with its monopolies, its usury and whatever else is unjust in it; at this individual freedom, devoid of human sympathy and responsibility for relatives except under the force of law…..

-Sayyid Qutb, Milestones

It’s Leninism with a veneer of Islam. And like Leninism, it has created the same revolutionary fanaticism, with an added dollop of religious fanaticism.

Needless to say, I have no use for such nonsense. Qutb and his ilk consider themselves the ‘chosen few’, sent to carry out the iron will of history God.