Not really. America, and Israel, were obviously part of the reasoning from Bin Laden, but really it was about his idea of a Pan Islamic Caliphate, which was a hodge podge of theological nonsense, <deleted> history and general crack potness. Part of getting to that was get rid of the Americans. he was a Salafist, specifically a Salafi jihadist, which broadly meant achieving the Salafist world through violence. Salafist jihadism isn't some ancient creed of Islam. Its thoroughly modern, and emerged in the 1950s as an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist movement, which wanted to go back to what their ideas of what "pure" Islam meant, which means whatever the hell they wanted that to be, and then evolved in Soviet occupied Afghanistan. Salafism itself was a 19th Century movement, that tried to reject Western influence. These "Quietest Salafists" were quite anti-politics, considering it corrupting, and non-violent. They consider Bin Laden's version to heretical. Al Qaeda isn't the first movement to pick up on some fictional idea of the "good old days" to try and inspire people Hitler, or more precisely, Himmler did the same, with their idea of the German Volk and the return of the Teutonic Knights, and a bunch of made up folk festivals. It was as if Ivanhoe was based on history. See the same nonsense symbology with movements like Britain First, and their Crusader nonsense. Now look up Alek Yerbury. What a pathetic <deleted> stain he is.
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