The very first paragraph (see below) of Milestones by Egyptian Islamist author Sayyid Qutb contains two rather extreme (even outrageous) claims, namely, that the Western world has no healthy values at all, and possess nothing at all to satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence. The truth of course is that the West is a highly complex and multifaceted civilisation containing considerable good and also much evil. Such simplistic dismissals are surely unacceptable. The book however is of such seminal importance to understanding the development of radical Islamist thought, I will persevere to the end of the work.
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Sadly this is common amongst islamist oriented groups linked to the ideas of qutb etc. I don’t think they have really immersed themselves in western litterature, philosophy or spirituality. Moral, ethics, the control of impulses and desires were all stated by many western writers such as Plato, Cicero, Augustine, Eckhart to mention a few.
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Good points.
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Is it correct to describe Plato,Cicero et al as Western?!
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of course!
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