Islam and Terrorism by Mark A Gabriel

the Egyptian government would see this book as a plan for a new Islamic revolution to overturn their government.
    Or perhaps he feared the government would be angry with him because his thinking was so similar to Sheikh Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, the leader of the Islamic movement in Pakistan. (This is the author whose words I used earlier to define jihad.)
    However, an average reader who can read between the lines would conclude that Qutb envisioned the following type of group to carry out the call of Islam:
•   This group would be purified from any and all inclination to lean toward the pagan world. They would eliminate all sources of spiritual beliefs that would compete with Allah and the Quran. This includes destroying books and man-made Islamic commentaries.
•   They would accept no authority but Allah for beliefs, worship, systems, laws, and constitution.
•   They would experience tremendous resistance from the rest of the world. Existing governments and authorities would cause them financial difficulties. Their families and society would reject them.
•   They would claim that the new Islamic world could exist only if their group obtained a great deal of power and force to gain the respect and submission of the pagan world. They would use armed forces to overthrow governments, just as Muhammad did.
•   There would be no mercy or compromise in this war.
•   This Muslim group may have a difficult start, but as soon as true believers hear the call, the numbers will multiply to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and then throughout the world.
“D EFEATED ” M USLIMS
    Qutb was very frustrated with Muslims who questioned the call to jihad as a command to be followed by all Muslims of all time. Qutb asserted:
The order in which Allah gave Islam to Muhammad was gradual and progressive to maximize positive results toward Islam. Many Muslims take the early verses of this progression of teaching out of context as if they are Allah’s final and complete instructions. These Muslims strip Islam of its power and build their own theory on these verses.
The results of this type of interpretation of Islam are Muslims who are living a defeated life spiritually and mentally. They are under the pressure of the hopelessness that they cannot spread Islam any longer.
These people are only Muslims by name. They only have the title of Islam but not the power. They only fight to defend their beliefs.
These are the same Muslims who like to carry the title of Islam without the responsibility of overturning the entire earth with all of its politics and earthly governments. These Muslims choose to compromise the message of Islam by not forcing high taxes on people who refuse the message of Islam. 6
    Qutb expressed deep frustration about the people whom he described as “defeated Muslims, spiritually and mentally.” He complained about them distorting the meaning of jihad. “These Muslims write about jihad in Islam as just a spiritual jihad against evil.” He said that the truth is:
Islam is nothing but Allah declaring his liberation to the human race on earth from slavery. Allah declares his lordship over the entire earth. This means that Allah greatly protests all man-made government and authorities. Absolute rebellion is a must against anything on earth that conflicts with Islam. We should eliminate and destroy with great power anything that stops Allah’s revolution. 7
W ORDS B ACKED BY A CTION
    Following Qutb’s philosophy, the Muslim Brotherhood attempted to kill Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser twice—once in 1954 and once in 1965. These terrorists planted bombs in many different places of gathering. Bombs were planted in the Cairo Bab El-Kalk Court and many police stations. They murdered many Egyptian policemen.
    To defend itself, the Egyptian government placed many of the leaders of these groups in prison. Many of them left the prison in their coffins without a trial. President Nasser ordered the