Explanation: Sayyid Qutb of the Muslim Brotherhood was a major thinker whose fascist-inspired writings contributed significantly to the development of modern Islamist ideology, despite its breaks with traditional Islamic theology.
Gamal Abdel Nasser was the president of Egypt during the 1950s. He ran a strongman regime that afforded less-than-stellar civic participation, but was also genuinely popular with the Egyptian people. He was a pan-Arab socialist and secularist.
Sayyid Qutb would end up being arrested and, eventually, executed by Nasser’s government for his radical ideology.
One of my favourite facts about Nasser that he was awarded “Hero of the Soviet Union” medal, despite also being quite a staunch nationalist, and also despite his cooperation with Nazis
inafter WW2. 🌚Vladimir Vysotsky even had next verses in one of his songs (tough translation):
Take away the medal from Nasser.
Nasser is not fit for our medals.
So yeah, for Soviet citizens did not approve that.
You sure about the Nazi bit? To my recollection, Nasser wasn’t particularly involved in political circles before '48.
That being said, I’m reminded of Nasser banning the Soviet-aligned Communist Party and the Soviets just shrugging, lmao.
Oh, I mixed it up, my bad. The controversy involving Nasser was about Egyptian cooperation with nazis after WW2, with technocrats like Willy Messerschmitt and also propagandists and most importantly - ex-Wehrmacht officers.
