“In a line worthy of Robespierre, Sayyid Qutb said that a “just dictatorship” would “grant political liberties to the virtuous alone.”26 Hassan al-Banna, whose bedside reading was al-Ghazali, also regarded the Soviet Union under Stalin as a model of a successful one party system.” Soviet UnionAl GhazaliRobespierre Book:The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis