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"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is mentioned in a key passage from The America I Have Seen, a 1951 book by the influential Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb.[8] He described the scene as a record of the song was played at a church dance in the town of Greeley, Colorado: "The dance hall convulsed to the tunes on the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs ... Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion." In Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower," Wright records how this song helped form the anti-American feelings of Qutb, and Wright records that he came home to Egypt "even more radicalized." Qtub was part of the Muslim Brotherhood when he returned to Egypt, was imprisoned twice, and executed in 1966. Wright recounts the effect of Qutb on Mahfouz Azzam, whom Qutb instructed in third grade, and Azzam's similar effect on his fatherless nephew Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current head of Al-Qaeda. [9]