Bin laden Quote by Peter Bergen

For many terrorists, carrying out an attack allowed them to become the heroes of their own story.

— Peter Bergen

Abu Musab al Zarqawi had such a view of holy war. More barbaric, more monstrous even than Osama bin Laden. So much so that…

— Michael Ware

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the…

— Maajid Nawaz

Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's…

— Malcolm Nance

“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and…

— Barack Obama

You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos that, you…

— Mohsin Hamid

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New…

— James Buchan

“the abandoning of ideological conviction – the modern surrogate for religious belief – or us-versus-them thinking won’t be easy. The experts on Islam who…

— Pankaj Mishra

When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The simplistic nature of Islamism means that it thrives on victim narratives and clearly identifiable enemies. When there is no such simple, immediate outside…

— John R. Bradley

Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as…

— Jamal Khashoggi