What is the cost of curing the World Water Crisis?

If only America gets involved. Roughly 32.92 dollars per person.

Estimated US population (July, 2008): 303,824,640 people.
Estimated cost to solve the water crisis: $10,000,000,000

The price, I would guess, would be closer to $50 per person, if you include the people who can't and won't pay. This does not include those who are willing to pay more. This does not include non-Americans. If there was/is an organization that most American's could donate $50 to, and get a $50 tax break for it, I believe this problem could be solved.

Why bother? The lack of clean water is responsible for death of more people everyday than anything else. This is a serious problem, to say the least. Humans are dying. Our brothers, our sisters, our young ones. Dead. Never to breath again. Humans are the only species created with God's image, and we are letting them suffer.

Why has nothing been done? My guess, a lack of awareness, a lack of organization, and a lack of resources.

What do I propose? Someone with a voice needs to step up to the plate. Become the voice of an organization that can solve this problem, and provide the appropriate tax breaks for donations. I would like to see a plan form to get $10b on Christmas day 2009. Run commercials, have conventions, throw rallies, organize concerts, start websites, get the word out. Then, on Christmas day, provide the necessary funds to save millions around the world. Remind everyone that Christmas is about hope, salvation, and love.


Crazy, ain't it? I don't think I can do anything about this, but I figure getting the word out can't hurt.

There is so much more I want to put here, but much more and this will get dull.

http://adventconspiracy.org/
http://www.waterforpeople.org/
http://www.globalcitizencorps.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJvfApGzpc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K14c4NGuhDI

Sayyid Qutb (incomplete rough draft)

Alright, I am supposed to have a 5 page paper on this guy by Friday. Currently, it is about three and half. My goal is about four and half. If anyone sees mistakes feel free to point them out. Sorry if it is repetitive at any point. Trying to get quantity with quality.

Sayyid Qutb



Sayyid Qutb was one of the most influential Muslim extremist to ever live. His thoughts have influenced Al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, and many other Muslim extremist and groups. Although his works focused on Egypt, they managed to change Islamic extremist in across the entire world.

Sayyid Qutb was born on October 8, 1906 in Egypt. He was raised in the village of Musha, and moved to Cairo, from 1929 until 1933, for a Westernized education. After this he began his career as a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction. During these early years of his life, Qutb spent much time as a literary critic and author. In 1939 he became a functionary of Egypt’s ministry of Education. It was during this time (1948-1950) that he received a scholarship to study at the University of Northern Colorado. This was a major turning point in Qutb’s life.

When Qutb finally got to the United States of America, he was shocked to find the corruption in the spiritual and moral lives of the people. Everywhere he looked he saw things that the prophet had specifically told Muslims not to do. Qutb was even in awe of the depravity in Americans Churches. Commenting on a dance held at a church he stated “Every young man took the hand of a young woman. And these were the young men and women who had just been singing their hymns! Red and blue lights, with only a few white lamps, illuminated the dance floor. The room became a confusion of feet and legs: arms twisted around hips; lips met lips; chests pressed together.” All of this would have shocked any good Muslim of the time. He commented on how American women knew how to use their bodies to get what they wanted, and he was disgusted by it. He also noticed the American’s taste in music, Jazz, and stated “Jazz is his preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires…” Qutb’s impressions of America came mostly from a short stay in Washington DC and his two year study in Colorado. He stayed in the small town of Greeley, which was a town with many churches and no bars, but he still considered the residents barbaric. His impression of the citizens of Greeley quickly became his impression of all Americans, who commited crimes such as salting watermelon, and drinking unsweetened tea. Qutb experiences in America led him to reject all things Westernized. This would cause major problems when he returned to the Western friendly Egypt.

While in America, Qutb had become a radical Muslim. He quickly resigned all his government positions, and joined the Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan in the early 1950’s. Later he became editor-in-chief of the Brothers' weekly Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, and soon after that became the head of the propaganda section. Soon he became an appointed member of the Brotherhood’s most powerful branch, the Working Committee and of the Guidance Council. His work with the Brotherhood helped solidify his radical views, but would lead to his eventual imprisonment.

After the attempted assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the government cracked down on radical organizations and arrested Qutb and many other leaders of the Brotherhood. Qutb was brutally tortured in prison, but eventually found time to write. This is where his most influential work was done. He wrote the influential Malim if al-Tariq or Signposts in the Road. In this he explained that all societies where either Nizam Islami (truly Islamic) or Nizam Jahi (pre-Islamic ignorance and barbarism). This allowed him to view the world in black and white. More important than than his explanation about societies, he managed to find a way to justify the assassinations of political leaders. Muslims would not kill their leaders in the past, because killing another Muslim is forbidden by the prophet, but Qutb argued that if a regime did not follow Islamic values, then it was not Muslim at all. This meant the Egyptian leaders where infidels, and could be killed without any fear. This was a dangerous idea in for Qutb for, according to Islamic tradition, if a Muslim falsely accuses another Muslim of being an infidel, he will not obtain paradise. Also during his time he wrote a commentary on the Qur’an Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an).

In 1964, at the request of Abdul Salam Arif, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Qutb was finally released from prison. During this time, he became the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. This was not only because the former leader had been killed, but Qutb was considered a great Muslim. After a short 8 months, Qutb was arrested again because he was suspected in a plot to overthrow the government. Most of the charges in the trial were taken directly from his own writings, which he supported whole-heartedly. After the trial, he was sentenced to be hanged for treason, along with a number of others from the Muslim Brotherhood. It was later discovered that he actually had no part in the plot. His death was at the end of the year 1964. By many, he is considered a matyr.

Why is Sayyid Qutb considered a great worldview leader in Islam? It is mostly because of his work in prison. He rationalized the killing of political leaders, by saying they were infidels. This simple doctrine has spread to many terrorist organizations, and prominent terrorist. It has been used to justify the overthrowing of many countries in the Middle East. This is only one of the reasons he is considered a great Muslim by the extremist groups of Islam.

Another reason he is so popular is because he is the “Father of Modern Jihad”. He explains that many Islamic governments do not follow the Sharia law, therefore they are not Islamic at all and must be destroyed. He proposed that the only true form of government was anarchy. Muslim nations would follow Sharia law, and would not need police or government. He stated that all Muslims should resist every system in which men become servants of other men. He thought all government was wrong, even that which was ruled by the pious, or even that of his own country. He stated that these governments must be torn down with violence.

Sayyid Qutb left a legacy for other extremist to view. His writings directly influenced the work of Al Qaeda and many individual terrorist. His brother, Muhammad Qutb, was close to Sayyid and moved to Saudi Arabia after he was released from prison. In Saudi Arabia he became a professor of Islamic Studies and strongly promoted Sayyid’s works and ideas. One of Muhammad Qutb’s students was Ayman Zawahiri, who went on to join the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and later became the personal mentor of Osama bin Laden. Zawahiri was only able to learn from Qutb because of his uncle, Mafouz Azzam, who was a close friend of Sayyid Qutb’s. Mafouz Azzam was Sayyid Qutb’s student, personal lawyer, executor of estate, and one of the last people to see him alive.

Just made a blog

I will eventually do something here. I just felt a need to make this. Is that so wrong?

Am I supposed to put to spaces after an ending punctuation?