The Looming War On Islam

There has never been an actual war on Islam, except in the minds of some of Islam’s most radical theorists and politicians. Until now.

The story begins in Egypt, in 1964.

It’s been half a century since author, Sayyid Qutb, was hanged for plotting to assassinate Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Before he died, Qutb was able to plant the seed of an Islamic war with West which, half a century later, is bearing  fruit.

Two years before his execution, in 1964, Qutb penned “Milestones”. In it, he first voiced the idea of a war between Islam and the West.

The Western ways of thought … [have] an enmity toward all religion, and in particular with greater hostility toward Islam. This enmity toward Islam is especially pronounced and many times is the result of a well-thought-out scheme the object of which is first to shake the foundations of Islamic beliefs and then gradually to demolish the structure of Muslim society.

Qutb’s ideas thread the cloth which shaped the thinking of Ayatollah Khomei…