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Book review: Is ?Marxist Islamism? behind contemporary terrorism?

By Alliance Alert

Emina Melonic reviews The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly at The Catholic Thing: "Islamism's strange theology (or lack thereof, depending how one looks at it) is really an ideology, not a religion. In fact, Mr. Reilly writes that Islamism is structurally quite similar to Marxism . . . The most significant modern philosopher behind Marxist Islamism was Sayyid Qutb, one of the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood. He saw the West as a debauchery that must be saved and obliterated by Islam. He applied Marxist rhetoric to a religion, calling Islam an 'emancipatory movement' with 'an active revolutionary creed.' Such an unreasoning and ahistorical view yields nothing but the most dire consequences for the world."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).