Two Questions at the Heart of Bin Laden’s Jihad: Lawrence Wright
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Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- When Osama bin Laden began his waron America in 1996, he was posing two questions. The first was:What is Islam?
Al-Qaeda’s definition of the faith is one that ispermanently in conflict with nonbelievers -- a category thatincludes all Muslims who don’t subscribe to the narrowfundamentalism of bin Laden and his cohort. Measured by its bodycount, the real Clash of Civilizations was waged inside Islamitself.