Ed Husain

But anyhow, so Milestones is this kind of critical text.

Sayyid Qutb leaves America, I think in 1951, with several big problems.

We talk about incels now, right?

I mean, I think he was the OG incel because he refuses to get married, refuses to have relationships with women.

And when he was in hospital here, he writes in his book about what I saw in America, you know,

He says how women are voluptuous and women want to dance with him and women are showing his thighs to him.

In other words, he opposes the entire freedom of women to dress however they wish to dress here.

That disturbs him deeply.

And he goes back and he writes against the...

the strength of women, the presence of women, the charisma of women.

So that's the first thing he takes from America, a real hatred for American women.

I think we'd call that misogyny in our day and age, but that's the first thing he takes away.

The second thing he writes about after leaving America is something called social justice in Islam.

which is really weird for most of us who grew up reading classical Islamic literature.

We don't have a thing called social justice.

In the Aristotelian sense, we have justice.

And in the Quranic sense, we have again and again, just justice, because justice is unfair to people of all backgrounds.

It's unfair to whether you're women or to men or whether you're black or white.

But he comes up with this social justice, which was then a big movement here in America.

So he Americanizes Islam and writes about social justice.