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Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his "Caliphate" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses "nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence."
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, "Why do 'they' hate us?"
Sent 17: Some also ask, "What can we do to stop these attacks?"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.

Question: Who offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world (true/0)

Question: According to the author, what questions do Bin Laden and Al Quada answer for Americans? (true/1)

Question: How do Bin Laden and Qutb rationalize the mass murder and hate of Americans and nonbelievers? (false/2)

They didnt like Americans
Those who don't share his ideas are worthy of destruction
All Muslims must take up arms in a righteous defense of an embattled faith against nonbelievers worthy of destruction
They believe that all muslims need to fight against the non believers
The prophet Mohammed said so
All Americans are dumb
There is only 2 religions to choose from, Islam and jahilliyya

Question: Which religious faith did Sayyid Qutb follow? (false/3)

Question: Who said all Muslims must take up arms in this fight (true/4)

Question: Who claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (true/5)

Question: What two aspects of Bin Laden's message attract followers? (true/6)

Question: What does Sayyid Qutb offer to those who espouse his writings? (true/7)

Offers them a kind and peaceful interpretation of Islam
They rationalize mass murder with their faith
"All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight."
Barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief
Martyrdom, his "Caliphate," and simplistic conspiracies to explain their world

Question: Who calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets." (false/8)

Question: Who warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam (false/9)

Question: Who has given answers to the questions posed by the Americans? (true/10)

Question: What questions have many Americans wondered? (true/11)

Question: How did Sayyid Qutb view Western society? (false/12)

He viewed them as worthy of destruction
He felt they should all die
He loathed western society
He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses "nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence."
He viewed it as material

Question: What is the full name of the member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government? (false/13)

Question: What are the basic themes of Qutb's writings? (false/14)

There is no middle-ground between Islam and Jahilliya
Humans have to choose one among Islam and unbelief
The world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief, that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya, and no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan
The is a middle ground between jahiliyya and Islam
World is full of jahiliyya
Eastern culture is full of barbarism
1. The world is beset with jahiliyya; Humans can only choose between Islam and jahiliyya. 2. More people are attracted to jahiliyya than Islam, so jahiliyya could triumph over Islam. 3. There is no middle ground in the struggle between God and Satan
1. The world is full of gluttony. 2. Jahiliyya is the term for gluttony. 3. Muslims must join his cause or die
Peace has to be made between multiples and the West

Question: Who warned that jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam? (true/15)

Question: What was the name and significance of the writer that Bin Laden relied heavily on and how did the writer attain this view? (true/16)

Sayyid Qutb was the writer Bin Laden relied on and he attained this view by studying in the United States
Prophet Muhammad
Sayyid Qutb
Al Queda
Sayyid Qutb was the writer and he attained this view from the Qu'ran
Sayyid Qutb, he was a Muslim Brotherhood member that visited with and loathed Western society after being sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United State in the late 1940's

Question: According to Qutb, what fight must all Muslims engage in? (true/17)

The fight against America
The fight of jahiliyya against Islam
The struggle between God and Satan
The fight of Islam against jahiliyya
The fight between God and Satan
The fight against Atheism

Question: Approximately how long after studying in the United States was Sayyid Qutb executed? (true/18)

Question: Who calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."? (true/19)

Question: Who asks What can we do to stop these attacks (true/20)

Question: Whose scholarship dismisses Western achievements as entirely material? (true/21)