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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio

I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.
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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 06:54 AM

    The Looming Tower

    "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" is a magnificient book, though I'm not sure Hugh and I read the same text. Brutilization and shame are key elements in the foundation of the ideology founded by Sayyid Qutb. There is a passage in the book that describes Qutb's time in prison in Cairo, Egypt, where torture was rampant; I'm paraphrasphing: It is often said that the roots of the ideology of al qaeda were born out of the prisons of Egypt.

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