Posted by
Sue on Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:01:56 PM
For some weird reason I thought I had published this way back before Horrorism II....sorry, here is the Part I. (02/24/07)
I finished reading "Horrorism" by Martin Amis. I had never heard of him before, but I followed a link on one of my "daily reads" and so ended up reading his Essay. Well, it was very, very informative, scary and highly thought provocative. I had to put aside my distaste for his secular views and his tiny rant against religion (if you're a secularist can you do anything else?), his lack of understanding of millions of deaths attributable to horrors like Stalin, Mao and Hitler to name just a very, very few of the villains of the past century. But, once that was set aside, it was a great essay on the world's Muslim problem. I highly encourage everyone to take the time to read it and learn. His essay is published on the Observer, UK.
"Fate" some would say is, well, a given, if you believe in fate, and I do. As it happens, I, again through a link and some information garnered there the evening before, came across a Report . It presents an outline of the history of Islam as it relates to terrorism and explains the triad of Muslim thought and leadership. Stuff I didn't know. Names I had never heard and couldn't pronounce even if I had. But in the course of reading that report, I did a visual aid to help me sort things out. Lo and behold, the name Sayyid Qutb was not only part of the Report, but of Martin Amis' essay. In my visual aid, you see, it clearly showed that Sayyid Qutb was, in essence, the founder of the group: The Muslim Brotherhood. In actual fact, terrorists, who subscribe to the Sayyid Qutb branch of Islam are the terrorists that have been most active in the slaughter in the world for decades.
Who is Sayyid Qutb and why should we call the terrorists who have been slaughtering tens of thousands over the past 5-6 decades QUTBISTS? Because they are the direct descendents of Sayyid's twisted, tortured, and psychological hang-up.
As the founder of the most recent of the the triad of Muslim leadership groups, Sayyid Qutb was a large part of Martin Amis' essay, which I casually linked, ended up reading three times, and his thesis that what Islam needs is a renaissance. Sayyid's life story and its resultant achievements, albeit horrible, in the world puts some perspective on this terrible problem in our world. His life gives new meaning to paranoia and delusion fueled by his virginity unto death. I am no scholar. I am no psychiatrist. But I am a mother, grandmother, wife, sister and daughter. I understand the problems with sexual repression and possibly, orientation to boot. The world may have changed a great deal since I was a girl, but the basics are the basics. The only difference is that we get to read, study and learn about things today, upfront, publicly. It's out there for all to see.
But, if my read is right about Sayyid Qutb, it won't make a lick of difference to the Qutbists out there murdering anyone, anywhere. For, in the end, do you not try to be most like your parents? And, do you have a choice?
Well, as to that "parental choice" maybe not. There are a couple of recent studies that are showing a hardwiring of our brains by our upbringing. It seems that when you show the test subject the opposite of what they believe or pictures of people they don't agree with, the negative response clearly shows up in the brain of these people. So, who knows?