The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 187
What is Islamism? Is it the same thing as Islam? Has it varied over time? What’s its relationship to Communism, at least in our present era? These are important questions, particularly in light of the undeniable force of the Red-Green Alliance currently besetting the West. Against the backdrop of American leaders naming the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, at least in limited fashion, it’s a worthwhile endeavor to explore its intellectual underpinnings, which were recorded by Sayyid Qutb in a book called Milestones in 1964, two years before he was hanged in Egypt for his radicalism. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through the introduction of this book and explains its deep similarities to the Leninist Communism Qutb was immersed in before radicalizing, particularly Lenin’s 1902 tract What Is to Be Done? Join him for insight into this important work that shapes one of the biggest movements against the West in the world today.
Milestones, Vol. 2: Jahiliyyah, the False Consciousness of Islamism
Milestones, Vol. 3: The Basic Nature of Islam
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Qutb was quite a sweet-talker!
He observed that the West was declining, and attributed this to some intrinsic “lack of vitality” in Western thought and ideas. I attribute this decline to persistent attacks from various criminal elements in the West, as well as outside of it. Marx, indeed, was one such criminal element (in my way of thinking).
Islam, thus, is no more “vital” than any other system of thought. The big question is: How impervious is that system to criminal ideas? And Islam certainly fails by that test.
It has been discovered by Brown that Muhammad was given “downloads” (essentially) by a group of ETs, posing of course as “angels.” So we may turn some of our attention to the question of what those ETs were trying to achieve. It is possible that their intentions were nominally “good,” but – as with those who brought us Christ (in the form of Jesus) – that their work was insufficiently impervious to corrupting influences on Earth.
However that may be, it remains to be seen whether any set of teachings existing on Earth today are sufficiently impervious to corruption. It is, perhaps, easier to point out the weaknesses of others’ points of view than it is to recognize such in one’s own.
ABSOLUTLY , James
I heard about this creep back in 9/11 , and Bin Laden followed him.
One of the origins of marxist Jihad bs .
He put down jazz and American culture.
Thanks for raising these important issues.
Israel isnt my enemy , marxist jihadi absolutly is
Interesting.
Now do the Judaic origins of Bolshevism. You know:
Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin, the Secret police, the genocide of 20 million Christians in ths Soviet Union.