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Not sure where you're going with the quotes...you're not proving much of anything.
Several of the 9/11 hijackers were are strip clubs boozing it up before the attacks...these don't sound like religous zealots to me.
Bin Laden was very clear that 9/11 was (in their mind) a defensive attack in response to negative Western influence in the Islamic world. It's about the Palestenians, Chechens, Iraqis and supporting the Saudi Regime etc...
Their aims are political, but wrapped in the Koran. The desire to establish a caliphate and central Islamic state is a political goal driven by what they see as failures in democratic and socialist systems. They are fighting to give Muslims a better way...in this they are like Trotskyites.
The war is political, but the opponents fight as devout Muslims. Hence Bin Laden offering for Americans to convert etc...it's in the Koran. Concepts like jihad are abstract and subject to wild interpretation.
I could go on and on...but I'd suggest reading some good literature that presents a wildly different point of view. The truth as is often the case lies in the middle.
-spence
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