A New Milestone in the War on Terror

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A New Milestone in the War on Terror

Illegal: The 60s Syed Qutb classic, Milestones, was readily available in Egypt during the Mubarak regime. The dissemination of this version, published by Maktabah booksellers in England, was made illegal because of the appendices which include the syllabus of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

Landmark conviction of Ahmad Faraz for distributing and publishing books exposes extremely serious implications for society at large and Muslims in particular

In August 1966, Egyptian thinker and writer Sayyid Qutb was convicted in Cairo of conspiring against the State. The evidence used to incriminate him consisted primarily of extracts from his book Milestones, a treatise on Islamic governance written by Qutb during a previous stint in prison. For Egyptian President Nasser, the ideas contained in Milestones were as threatening to his position as the birth of Moses was to the Pharaoh thousands of years earlier. Nasser’s solution to his dilemma was little different from that of the Pharaoh. Kill the ideological revolution in its infancy. Qutb was executed in prison on 29 August 1966. All known copies of the book were confiscated and burned by military order, and anyone found in possession of it was prosecuted for treason.

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