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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/magazine/23GURU.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
(New York Times) Paul Berman - The roots of al Qaeda are not in poverty or in anti-Americanism but in Sayyid Qutb's ideas about how Christianity went wrong and how martyrdom could change the world. Qutb, an intellectual hero of Egypt's fundamentalist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, who was hanged in 1966, wrote Milestones, a classic manifesto of the terrorist wing of Islamic fundamentalism. The true confrontation was over Islam, and Christianity and Judaism were inferior to Islam.