I’m preparing a lecture on Sayyid Qutb (to be delivered late summer), so this makes me chuckle.
The connections: Qutb was executed by Egyptian gov’t in 1966 and became an Islamist martyr. Qutb’s writings were translated into Persian by Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomenei led the 1979 theocratic revolution in Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei is his successor.
Here’s the Ayatollah’s prompting tweet:
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Had I been alive then and protested Nazi persecution of Jews I would likely have rubbed shoulders with original Antifa members.
That would not have made me a communist.
Today advocates of Palestinian rights are painted extreme left – only the Commie, rainbow-haired, Woke crowd would support those people – despite (very few) Objectivists, Libertarians and Conservatives in their ranks.