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Originally Posted by Joe
That's the message to the most radical of his followers - but he's a pragmatist in a lot of ways, he does not believe he can conquer the world. Realistically, he'd be more than pleased to drive the Saudi Royal Family from power and oust the infidels from the three cities holy to the Islamic faith: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem...
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A very good observation.
Bin Laden believes he's in a defensive struggle against the West, and it's advances upon Islam. His called to conversion are part of the old Islamic process for making war, sort of a code or tradition.
We really don't understand much of how Muslim leaders use religious language to community policy...instead just laugh at how wacky they sound. It results on Bin Laden sounding not that wacky to mainstream Islam were terrorim feeds.
-spence