Reece's lessons from Maajid: Milestones
Maajid · CIA black site, Morocco
The CIA ships Reece to a black site in Morocco to get him ready to find Mo Farooq, his old ISOF ally who has gone over to Al-Qaeda. Maajid is the one teaching him how a man ends up there, and the reading in the room covers both ends of that argument. Sayyid Qutb's Milestones is the book jihadist movements still quote. Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Islamic Awakening is a cleric's case against exactly that kind of zeal. Reece gets the pitch and the rebuttal in the same sitting, which is more prep than most of us do for a job interview.
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1Milestones
Qutb finished it in an Egyptian prison and published it in 1964. Nasser's government hanged him two years later, and Ayman al-Zawahiri later named Qutb as a major influence on the movement that became Al-Qaeda. If you're trying to understand Mo Farooq, this is page one.
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2Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism
Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who spent most of his life in Qatar, wrote this as an argument against extremism among young Islamists. Britain still refused him a visa in 2008, which tells you how hard it is to be the moderate in this pile.
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