Yep: Qutb was a liberal snob, condescending to small-town American life.
LOL. It's always amazing how Convervatives have "values", but Liberals are "snobs" in some people's lexicons (or subconscious?).
C'mon, this is the kind of penny-ante analysis that isn't worthy.
I'm not an expert on Qutb, but his massive work, In the Shade of the Qu'ran, amounts to more than some passing snobbery. (Was St. Paul a liberal snob writing letters to the Corinthians, who enjoyed their "freedoms"?)
The type of psychological dissonance Qutb encountered while immersed in a culture alien to his sensibilities is hardly unique. Because the British covered up their own "hatred"/chauvinism by calling everyone "wogs", are we to take them so much more ... er, civilized?
All's to say, more thought required on this topic ...
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