That's actually quite easy: Sayyid Qutb...was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s. In the West Qutb is known for his intense dislike of the United States and is sometimes described as "the man whose ideas would shape Al Qaeda." From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study the educational system... Qutb concluded that major aspects of American life were primitive and "shocking". His experience in the U.S. is believed to have formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards radicalism upon returning to Egypt. Resigning from the civil service, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1950s[16] and became editor-in-chief of the Brothers' weekly Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, and later head of the propaganda section, as well as an appointed member of the Working Committee and of the Guidance Council, the highest branch in the Brotherhood. Qutb is considered one of the most influential Muslim thinkers or activists of the modern era Qutb had influence on Islamic insurgent/terror groups in Egypt and elsewhere. His influence on Al Qaeda was felt through his writing, his followers and especially through his brother, Muhammad Qutb, who moved to Saudi Arabia following his release from prison in Egypt and became a professor of Islamic Studies and edited, published and promoted his brother Sayyid's work. One of Muhammad Qutb's students and later an ardent follower was Ayman Zawahiri, who went on to become a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and later a mentor of Osama bin Laden and a leading member of al-Qaeda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb
"Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them" By Amiram Barkat A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face. Advertisement The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they cannot. On Sunday, a fracas developed when a yeshiva student spat at the cross being carried by the Armenian Archbishop during a procession near the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City. The archbishop's 17th-century cross was broken during the brawl and he slapped the yeshiva student. Both were questioned by police and the yeshiva student will be brought to trial. The Jerusalem District Court has meanwhile banned the student from approaching the Old City for 75 days. The rest of the article found at; http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/...D=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=487412
actually, that's why i did it - reverse psychology start a thread criticizing support of israel, and everyone calls you an anti semite start a thread asking for more support, and everyone thinks up what I was going to say anyway