Jahiliya (Ignorance) refers to the time of pagan Arabs preceding Islam. Within a European Christian context, paganism is a catch-all term which has come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion (as opposed to a revealed religion of a text). ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ...

The meaning of this term was expanded by Islamist fundamentalists, such as Sayyid Qutb, in the twentieth century in which it was applied to Muslims who had deviated from the course of Islam as laid out in the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, and to non-Muslims (particularly of the West) accused of debilitating the faith. Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ... Sayyid Qutb (9 October 1906 in Musha – executed on 29 August 1966) was an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Muhammad is a common male name for Muslims. ...

Qutb and others within the Muslim Brotherhood argued that Islam granted the right to attack jahil, or infidels, and the right to jihad against a society representing jahiliya. The philosophy of Qutb and others influenced other Islamic fundamentalists such as Osama bin Laden and provides for them an ideological justification for terrorist attacks such as those on September 11th. The Muslim Brotherhood or Muslim Brothers (Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون, al-Ikhwan al-muslimoon, full title جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamaat al-ikhwan al-muslimin, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply الإخوان al-Ikhwan, the Brotherhood) is the name of several Islamic political organisations in the Middle East. ... Jihad (ǧihād جهاد) is an Islamic term, from the Arabic root ǧhd (to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle), which connotes a wide range of meanings: anything from an inward spiritual struggle to attain perfect faith to a struggle a political or military struggle to further the Islamic cause. ... Osama bin Laden Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born July 30 or March 10, 1957) (Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden (Arabic: ), is usually considered to be the figurehead of al-Qaeda, a Sunni Islamist terrorist network that has been involved in attacks against civilians... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...