The Looming Tower

[Benny B]

I just completed this book, and for those of you who have not already read this work I highly recommend it.

Lawrence Wright discusses his award-winning book, 'The Looming Tower'.

Muslim Prophet Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb 1906-1966

This is from the audiobook of "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright.

To potential martyrs, your mullah and imam lied to you. 70 white grapes not virgins in the afterlife...

"Jazz is the american music created by negroes to satisfy their primitive instincts, their love of noise and their appetite for sexual arrousal." Sayyid Qutb

"The white man in europe or america is our number one enemy." Sayyid Qutb

"The white man crushes us under foot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives." Sayyid Qutb

"We are endowing our children with amazement and respect for the master who tramples our honor and enslaves us." Sayyid Qutb

"Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust and revenge in the souls of these children." Sayyid Qutb

"Let us teach these children from the time their nails are soft that the white man is the enemy of humanity and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity." Sayyid Qutb

[Benny B]

Authors@Google: Lawrence Wright
Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terrorism, The Looming Tower. He begins with the observation that, despite an impressive record of terror and assassination, post--WWII, Islamic militants failed to establish theocracies in any Arab country. Many helped Afghanistan resist the Russian invasion of 1979 before their unemployed warriors stepped up efforts at home. Al-Qaeda, formed in Afghanistan in 1988 and led by Osama bin Laden, pursued a different agenda, blaming America for Islam's problems. Less wealthy than believed, bin Laden's talents lay in organization and PR, Wright asserts.

Ten years later, bin Laden blew up U.S. embassies in Africa and the destroyer Cole, opening the floodgates of money and recruits. Wright's step-by-step description of these attacks reveals that planning terror is a sloppy business, leaving a trail of clues that, in the case of 9/11, raised many suspicions among individuals in the FBI, CIA and NSA. Wright shows that 9/11 could have been prevented if those agencies had worked together. As a fugitive, bin Ladin's days as a terror mastermind may be past, but his success has spawned swarms of imitators. This is an important, gripping and profoundly disheartening book.

This event took place September 14, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

[Benny B]

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