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FreedomWorks, Virginia Murr, and me

Education, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Religion / Stephen Hicks

Congratulations to Virginia Murr (Rockford College class of 2006) for her First-Prize-winning essay in the FreedomWorks entrepreneur essay contest. Virginia was in the college’s rigorous honors program and a philosophy major, and since graduating she is developing her own writing career. Even better, especially for me, is the theme of her winning essay: Dr. Stephen […]

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Murr on Qutb

Leave a Comment / Politics, Religion, Worth Reading / Stephen Hicks

Virginia Murr on the philosopher of Islamist terrorism: “The Power of Ideas: Sayyid Qutb and Islamism” [pdf]. Her extended essay explores the Qutb’s connection with historical Islam and contemporary movements such as Al Quaeda. (This essay was first posted at StephenHicks.org on September 4, 2004.)

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