For almost ten years I have conducted extensive and intensive research into not only the 9/11 attacks but also into the history of radical Islam.
Prior to 9/11, I had very little knowledge of the Muslim religion, I knew of course that there were Muslims in the middle east, but as far as I was concerned they had their thing and I didn't really care what that might be. Then when the attacks came on 9/11 and we learned within just a few days that Islamic terrorists were the suspected perpetrators, I grew quite curious about just what in God's name made these people tick. So, I began my own research.
As time passed, I read the 9/11 Commission Report, the NIST investigation, the FEMA reports, and whatever I could find in FBI archives and elsewhere. As extensive as it all was, I wasn't completely satisfied with what I had learned and this inspired me to go even deeper. So I began looking into Islam itself. As a starting point, I read quite a bit of the Qu'ran and other Islamic scripture. I discovered the Qu'ran prohibits Muslims from committing suicide, so I wondered what in world inspired Muslims to kill themselves in executing such a terrible act of terrorism.
Then I came across the name Sayyid Qutb and the picture completely changed. Things began to clear up a bit. Qutb was an Egyptian author, poet, journalist and teacher who was an outspoken critic of the Muslim world and he voiced an intense disapproval of the United States which he saw as materialistic, and obsessed with violence and sexual pleasures. To confirm his feelings about America, he came here in 1949, spent two years working and studying in Washington DC and Colorado. When he returned to Egypt in 1951, he was thoroughly radicalized.
Qutb then put all of his writing and journalistic skills to work in expounded the concept of
violent Jihad. He usurped the teachings of the Qu'ran and began a campaign for
Pure Islam. His writings, pamphlets, and speeches inspired many young Muslims with the doctrines of martyrdom and terrorism to achieve that goal. Among them were Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In fact he befriended these two men among others. One of those young Muslims inspired by Qutb and bin Laden was Mohammed Atta, the field commander of the 9/11 attacks. ,
Considered the god father of the Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb's efforts bore fruit, poisonous though it was, and violent Islamic fundamentalism was born. The foremost goal in Qutb's mind was to take down the secular government of Egypt and replace it with a purely Islamic theocracy much like that of the Iranian regime. Qutb called all true Muslims to jihad, or Holy War, against
jahiliyya—which is to say, against modernity, which America so powerfully represents.
This philosophy led to Qutb’s execution in 1966. Proud to the end, he refused to accept the secular Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser’s offer of mercy in exchange for Qutb’s repudiation of his jihad. Nasser may have silenced a critic, but the martyrdom of Sayyid Qutb accelerated his movement. The same year the philosopher was hanged, the teenage al-Zawahiri formed his first violent cell, dedicated to the overthrow of the Egyptian government and the creation of an Islamist state.
At the conclusion of his book "The America I have seen" Qutb wrote, “Humanity makes the gravest of errors and risks losing its account of morals, if it makes America its example.” In other words, he pinned a bulls eye on the United States.
Qutb's writings and his martyrdom heavily influenced bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and many other now radicalized Muslims into their terrorist campaigns to punish, even destroy, not only the United States but any secular government running a Muslim country.
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, his book
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is the definitive work on the history leading to the seminal event in Islamic terrorism.
"What a riveting tale Lawrence Wright fashions in this marvelous book. The Looming Tower is not just a detailed, heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11, written with style and verve. It's a thoughtful examination of the world that produced the men who brought us 9/11, and of their progeny who bedevil us today . . Wright has unearthed an astonishing amount of detail about Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri... and all the rest of them. They come alive . . . The portrait of John O'Neill, the driven, demon-ridden F.B.I, agent who worked so frantically to stop Osama bin Laden, only to perish in the attack on the World Trade Center, is worth the price of the book alone. The Looming-Tower is, a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too."New York Times book review
During his investigation, Wright interviewed over 500 people both Americans and Muslims who were directly involved or connected in some way with this history. Among them were some members of Osama bin Laden's family.
Israel had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks on 9/11, and this WAS NOT a false flag operation. Islamic terrorists planned, financed, and executed the attacks.For almost ten years I have conducted extensive an... (