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Qutb, the leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood, studied in Greeley, Colorado, from 1948–50, and wrote a book, The America I Have Seen
based on his impressions. In it he decried everything in American from
individual freedom and taste in music to Church socials and haircuts.[50]
"They danced to the tunes of the gramophone, and the dance floor was
replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists,
lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was
full of desire..."[51]
Qutb's writings influenced generations of militants and radicals in the
Middle East who viewed America as a cultural temptress bent on
overturning traditional customs and morals, especially with respect to
the relations between the sexes. As Paul Hollander has written: "The
most obvious and clear link between anti-Americanism and modernization
is encountered in Islamic countries and other traditional societies
where modernization clashes head on with entrenched traditional beliefs,
institutions, and patterns of behavior, and where it challenges the
very meaning of life, social relations, and religious verities. What
becomes of the world when women can go to work and show large surfaces
of skin to men they are not related to? In a recent case, the indignant
male members of a Kurdish family in Sweden were 'provoked' by the
transgressing female of their family who had the temerity to have a job
and a boyfriend and dress in Western ways. She was finally killed by her
father."[4]
Qutb, the leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood, studied in Greeley, Colorado, from 1948–50, and wrote a book, The America I Have Seen
based on his impressions. In it he decried everything in American from
individual freedom and taste in music to Church socials and haircuts.[50]
"They danced to the tunes of the gramophone, and the dance floor was
replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists,
lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was
full of desire..."[51]
Qutb's writings influenced generations of militants and radicals in the
Middle East who viewed America as a cultural temptress bent on
overturning traditional customs and morals, especially with respect to
the relations between the sexes. As Paul Hollander has written: "The
most obvious and clear link between anti-Americanism and modernization
is encountered in Islamic countries and other traditional societies
where modernization clashes head on with entrenched traditional beliefs,
institutions, and patterns of behavior, and where it challenges the
very meaning of life, social relations, and religious verities. What
becomes of the world when women can go to work and show large surfaces
of skin to men they are not related to? In a recent case, the indignant
male members of a Kurdish family in Sweden were 'provoked' by the
transgressing female of their family who had the temerity to have a job
and a boyfriend and dress in Western ways. She was finally killed by her
father."[4]
