Sayid Qutb Father of Takfiri Jihadism.
Sayid Qutb in an Egyptian prison defiantly exposing his neck knowing that he would be hanged. For all its austerity and fundamentalism Saudi Arabia did not give birth to the ideology of modern Islamism, rather its modern origins are to be found in Egypt, within the Muslim Brotherhood whose most able son Sayid Qutb, would transcend his teachers and conceive the ideology that gave birth to al-Qaeda. Today the Muslim Brotherhood is denounced as an apostate organization by ISIS and other hardline Islamist movements, yet a careful study of Islamist history will prove that their ideological father is the Muslim Brotherhood. Lawrence Wright in his book; The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 911, gave a comprehensive view into Qutb ‘ s influences, his American sojourn, his imprisonment, torture and eventual execution at the hands of the Egyptian authorities at the time. Wright described Qutb and the Egyptian reality at the time in the following: Like many of his compatrio...