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I think that not the US, but the Arab world were the target of the message. Al qaeda simply didn't care one bit what the average USian was thinking. The USA wa
by hyperman1 2y ago
I think that not the US, but the Arab world were the target of the message. Al qaeda simply didn't care one bit what the average USian was thinking. The USA was the stage, not the public.
Their message to the arab world was to unite against a common enemy, hated and proven vulnerable.
- yawpitch 2y agoBin Laden wasn’t all that interested in pan-Arabian unity, or even pan-Islamist unity, unless you were Sunni, more specifically Salafi / Wahhabi. Whatever his message, for the majority of Arabs it included the “oh, and follow my literalist interpretation or die, takfir”.
- dvfjsdhgfv 2y agoWe can't say anywise as the guy is dead and we can't for sure believe anything he said but based on the reaction of my fellow Arab colleagues, 9/11 had an important moral effect on them. As one of them explained to me, they felt victims for decades, and now for the first time in history they managed to have the upper hand.