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    1. Sayyid Qutb was the intellectual backbone of the Muslim Brotherhood and a hero of Osama Bin Laden. He was also a major creep who was obsessed with Western women’s sexuality and never married because he couldn’t find a woman righteous enough for him (I’m guessing some combo of ace or incel before incels)

      >One of the earliest critiques (of ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside) came from Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian writer whose work influenced modern Sunni Islamism and who went on to become a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Upon visiting Greeley, Colo., in 1949, Mr. Qutb wrote angrily about a church dance where the minister dimmed the lights and went to the gramophone to put on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

      >The ‘Father’ waited until he saw people getting into the rhythm of that erotic song,” Mr. Qutb wrote in an article for an Egyptian magazine.

      The NYT. Other stuff:

      Qutb frequently described a college dance where “the room convulsed with the feverish music”. He was disturbed by the intermingling of the sexes, noting, “Dancing naked legs filled the hall, arms draped around the waists, chests met chests, lips met lips”.

      Qutb was shocked to observe similar social mixing and physical contact occurring inside church spaces, which he viewed as a loss of religious morality.

      He claimed American women were “well acquainted with [their] body’s seductive capacity”.

      He wrote that women used their bodies “from their lips and legs to their curves” to manipulate men, transforming basic interactions into transactional, animal-like behavior.

      In his theological works, such as *In the Shade of the Qur’an*, Qutb emphasized that women’s true nature is suited to nurture, and that the “laxness” of Western individualism destroyed the traditional family unit.

      He was a major leader, philosopher, and martyr of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his writings were hugely influential in the rise of modern Islamism generally, and Al Qaeda specifically.

      From my other meme on this

    2. Chalky_Pockets on

      I dunno anything about this particular context, but that song is rapey as fuck and it creeps me out every December. 

    3. This guy was basically one of those classic “moral guardians” who start clutching their pearls the moment they see something even slightly objectionable, and yet have surprising trouble practicing what they preach in private.

    4. GustavoistSoldier on

      Nasser once laughed when this guy suggested women should be forced to wear hijabs

    5. ClipperKnight on

      I first heard about this guy when my history professor (right before the pandemic) had us watch a British documentary called “The Power of Nightmares”. The documentary makes a lot of comparisons to neoconservatism and radical Islam.

    6. vampiregamingYT on

      Tbf, it is a little weird a guy keeps trying to pressure a girl i to staying late, when she clearly wants to leave.

    7. Ajaws24142822 on

      No one is wants to be the loser fundamentalist Qutb, everyone wants to be the based secular chad Nasser

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