, must be the central authority and its principles be applied to every aspect of Islamic life. These principles include to ways of dressing, praying, eating relations with the opposite sex and children as well as education. The general idea is to re-Islamize society as a whole. According to Banna the ending result would be an Islamic state neither capitalist nor socialist. One of the of their most influential theorists was Sayyid Qutb. Qutb wanted to see an extreme form of Islam take control with that of a break from what he referred to as the jahiliyya, a term used to describe non-believers or an impious society. Qutb was executed in Egypt before he could see his own idea take shape, but re-Islamization movements in the 1980s followed his same idea. Tat a struggle against the jahiliyya was going to take place, followed by a seizure of power and the inauguration of an Islamic State subject to the sharia. The means of doing this have very enormously, from alternative societies to that of terrorism, with the formation of Islamist political parties as an intermediate solution. In the recent decade an extreme case of Islam has emerged with a man born of Saudi Arabian decent. His name is Osama bin Laden. Saudi Arabia is a deeply religious country where Islamic practices are strictly observed. In fact they have a religious police that inforce the prohibition of alcohol and he wearing of traditional female dress, and much else makes the Saudi society very conservative. So we have to ask what would make a Saudi born man turn to an extreme form of Islam within a strict Islamic country?Despite the countrys adherence to Islamic codes, its religious standing and its generous patronage of Islamic causes, the Saudi royal family has been under much criticism from fundamentalist saying they have to strong a tie with the United States and the western world as a whole. Since the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s the Saudis have relied greatly on the ...
