ONE MAN triggered MILITANT ISLAM Hassan Al Banna's Story

In 1920s Egypt, as the Muslim world reeled from the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and the shock of British rule, a young schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna began building an ideological machine that would redefine political Islam for the next century. What started as a moral revival movement soon evolved into a blueprint for a totalitarian Islamic state, grounded in his radical idea that modern societies lived in a new age of Jahiliyya. Through a powerful mix of grassroots organisation, puritanism, and political militancy, al-Banna’s vision spread from Cairo to Kabul, shaping the doctrines of groups like the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and modern Islamist movements. This video explains how one man’s ideas, born from humiliation, colonial trauma, and a quest for purity, became the intellectual engine of contemporary extremism.