“Lastly, the radicalisation of the muslim world didn’t begin with Western intervention, even if said intervention has fanned the flames. The reactionary bigots like Qutb and the like do hate America for what it stands for.”
You are implying that Qutb, who lived in British ruled Egypt pre-dates “Western Intervention”, thats a howler boy, and renders all the rest pretty worthless,
however as to ‘reactionary bigot” there’s a lot more to Qutb, have you read al-madina al-mashura, thorns, the whole of Social Justice in Islam? he was a secularist, essayist, literary man, like most of his generation western orientated and modernist, like many many 3rd world people WW2 was a seminal event, he discovered Islam as a culture, you may come across these writings in those texts you poured over, they were utterly alienated by the horrors of the camps, the eastern front, hundreds of thousands of their sons fought in Europe and elsewhere and saw modern war up close, many many people felt very alienated from Western Civilization by these horrors, and the open and contemptuous manner the British treated the King and state, after each public humiliation, like the Mahir affair, the King would go on embarrassing public binges, again you may come across this in those texts that predate Western intervention in the ME.
lets recall that he was executed sometime ago, ’60’s, he may sound strange to a modern ear, however he was a good writer, interesting literary critic and he went to his death obdurate and brave, resisting western domination is not of itself bigoted and being an advocate of Islamic literary culture, not really popular with the people as a whole, does not automatically mark one as reactionary, it is true that he is not to my mind very good on religion, a bit Hegelian with all the beauty stuff, though he only read Arabic he was knowledgeable about Western Literary theory which he writes about extensively and very sympathetically.
Your thesis is history teaches us that they hate us, really, because a hundred years ago we weren’t intervening and still they raged?
hate is not a necessary condition for resistance, why don’t you lay out Qutb’s words and criticize them, that would be interesting.
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December 11th, 2015 
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