This is informative

I think most people with any knowledge of history, or old enough to remember Khrushchev and his shoe, will recognize that the Soviet threat was not invented by the Neocons.

You should also know that "Jahiliyya" literally means "ignorance" and refers to the state of illiteracy and polytheism that the pre-Islamic Arabs lived in. That this "ignorance" of God and of the benefits of civilization is something Sayyid Qutb saw taking over the world speaks more to his own troubled mind than to reality.



N.B. Most, almost all, Islamists are western educated, and have been cut off from traditional Islamic knowledge. Some of the best and most informed attacks on them have been by traditional Islamic scholars.