Imperialism is not a manifestation of a capitalist system which is nothing but “a corollary of rebellion against Allah's authority and the denial of the dignity of man given to him by Allah Almighty” (27) as Qutb points out earlier in his book. Essentially, the struggle, rather, is religious since it has existed away before the emergence of Capitalism. Despite the absence of evidence for a direct relationship, some writers associate Qutb’s idea of the Crusading spirit with prepare the atmosphere to conspiracy thinking. For example, Natana J. DeLong-Bas accentuates that “Bin Laden also echoes Qutb's theme of the global Christian, Crusader- Zionist, Jewish conspiracy to destroy Islam” (274).
