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>Qutb added that:

>‘America has forgotten one thing: one thing has no value here – the spirit (روح). Here, a PhD student submits a thesis on the best method for washing the dishes.This is more important than a thesis on the Bible, if not more important than the Bible itself....America is good as a workshop for the world . . .but, certainly, it will be a disaster for humanity if the world became America.’

>Qutb emphasized that America has a fascinating civilization, but that ‘absolute pleasure that is free from any form of restriction or customs’ tends to forget to balance material and spiritual needs. The balance that distinguishes humanity from other beings, as Qutb noted, could not be achieved because the Americans were ‘exhausted’. Speaking generally, Americans did not ‘have a balance as regards either their own assets, or their Greek and Roman intellectual heritage.’

On jazz
>The American is primitive in his artistic tastes, whether in his judgment of art or his own artistic works. Jazz music is his music of choice. It is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires, and their desire for noise on the one hand, and the abundance of animal noises on the other. The American’s enjoyment of jazz does not fully begin until he couples it with singing like crude screaming. And the louder the noise of the voices and instruments, until it rings in the ears to an unbearable degree, the greater the appreciation of the listeners. The voices of appreciation are raised, and palms are raised in continuous clapping that could deafen ears.

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>The only thing that matters is the silent endurance

>to create new relationships, new distances, new values

It doesn't work that way. Rather by doing nothing the godless will obliterate your relationships and values, they will tear your family to tiny pieces and make you assent to their values even if you dislike it and indoctrinate your children with them and make you cower before the rainbow flag

>>17520743
Shia are not Muslims lol. You have no clue about the political situation in Iraq. Absolutely none. Sunnis watched their people being raped and tortured by Shia either collaborating with America, or working as proxies for Iran. None of what the Shia did got covered in the west because America hardly minded it, they rather wanted to uproot ISIS and AQ. The Shia established themselves in Iran through genocide and repeated the process in Iraq and Syria, and non secularized Sunni is under the worst harm, they call in American and Russian air strikes to kill us. You are absolutely ignorant. And falling for the same exact thing everyone in the west did when they said Osama was just a crazy fanatic attacking innocent people without provocation or reason. Now that the truth about Shaykh Usama is no longer a threat, America doesn't care about hiding it. Indeed trying to paint him as the "good guy" is actually permissible even on their social media so long as it's done with the intent to demonize ISIS which he lauded. AQ is getting lobotomizes into nationalist chapters like HTS because Zawahiri is thinking that is safer than open transnationalism and this is why America hasn't killed him.