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Al Qaedaism and communism By Arnaud de Borchgrave June 17, 2006 Communism had Karl Marx. Al Qaedaism has Sayed Qtub. Who's he, most people would ask. The ideology that nurtured modern Islamic extremism, and spawned every violent movement from Hezbollah to al Qaeda, was born in 1952 when Qtub, an Egyptian writer, returned from studying American literature at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo. The tipping point from detached observer to extremist ideologue took place at a church... Sign in to see full entry.