It was these courses that led Ben Laden to a thoroughgoing interpretation of Islam, and Lisa Beyer (2001) writing for Time asserted that Ben Laden's life index have been varied if he "had drawn a different teacher for Islamic Studies rather than a charismatic Palestinian lecturer who fired his religious fervor."[vii] She pointed out that the components needed for 9/11 to occur-"planning, patience, money, cool, stealth and extraordinarily committed operatives"-were all commodities that Ben Laden possessed.[viii] The teachings that influenced Ben Laden so greatly were not the traditional ones that Muslims regard but a "radical redefinition" of several important Quranic concepts, in particular takfir, tawhid, and jihad.[ix] Qutb changed the concept of takfir, for instance, by stating that what Allah has made unlawful is, in fact, lawful.[x]
Because of his radical beliefs, Ben Laden became involved in Muslim terrorism, offspring a "Declaration of Jihad" in 1996 that defined his goals as the overthrow of the Saudi regime and the
ouster of U.S. forces.
[xi] His operatives bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that same year, provoking a U.S. rocket attack on an Afghan site used as an al-Qaeda base.[xii] He has been eluding U.S. apprehension ever since, and til now if he were caught, it is not certain how he would be charged, since his " very(prenominal) place in the terror franchise he's associated with is somewhat nebulous."[xiii] He is striving to create "a worldwide Islamic state," but has so far occupied himself primarily with expelling infidels from Islamic countries.[xiv]
[vii] Lisa Beyer, "The Most Wanted Man in the World," Time, 2001.
[v] Osama Bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence, and throng Howarth, Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, Brooklyn: Verso, 2005, xii.
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