Reading 190, on Fundamentalism

Humanity today is living in a large brothel! One has only to
glance at its press, films, fashion shows, beauty contests,
ballrooms, wine bars, and broadcasting stations! Or observe
its mad lust for naked flesh, provocative postures, and sick,
suggestive statements in literature, the arts and the mass
media! And add to all this the system of usury which fuels
man’s voracity for money and engenders vile methods for its
accumulation and investment, in addition to fraud, trickery,
and blackmail dressed up in the garb of law.
Sayyid Qutb ( Malise Ruthven, Fundamentalism, A Very Short Introduction, pg. 26.)

…Crucially, it allowed me to realize that whatever the motive cause
was that drove these young men to kill themselves and take too
many others with them, the key context where we need to look for
understanding is not ‘Islam’, but the failure of traditional religion to
encompass modernity. ( Ruthven, pg.1)