Naomi Klein caused a stir last August when she argued that Sayyid Qutb, “generally viewed as the intellectual architect of radical political Islam,” arrived at his dim view of America after encountering “what he later described as America’s ‘evil and fanatic racial discrimination.'”
In this piece at TNR, Joseph Braude quotes Qutb on jazz: “this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires, and their desire for noise on the one hand, and the abundance of animal noises on the other.”
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