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This is factually incorrect, it's an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.Yes. And who were they? Who influenced them?
theweek.com - Marxist roots islamic extremismRadical Islam, for example, is a highly potent mixture of motifs drawn from the Muslim past and Marxist-Leninist ideas imported through the writings of such polemicists as Sayyid Qutb and Abul Ala Maududi. The two most ambitious and powerful Islamist groups ' the Islamic State and al Qaeda ' do not seriously believe that their acts of terrorism against the West will lead the EU or the United States to surrender.The guy to focus on here is Sayyid Qutb, who would go on to found the Muslim Brotherhood itself and is considered one of the founders of modern Islamism.
What were his influences? Karl Marx, of course:
themadkhalis.com - Dsppw readings in elementary communism the manifesto of karl marx and frederick engels and sayyid qutb.
And it is necessary for Islaam to judge, since it is a unique, constructive and positivist aqidah which has been moulded and shaped from Christianity and Communism together, [with a] blending in the most perfect of ways and which comprises all of their (i.e Christianity and Communism's) objectives and adds in addition to them harmony, balance and justice.(Translated from Qutb's text
Ma'rakat ul-Islam war-Ra'samaaliyyah.
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