The Life of Osama Bin Laden

“Both, bin Laden and the Crusaders [Taliban] transformed the evil of vengeance into a virtue. Both exploited their religious traditions to commit atrocities” (Fadl 5). Osama bin Laden misused the Qur’an in order to gain the governmental power in and around countries with a high population of Muslims. Bin Laden’s word manipulated so many different people that a group formed called the Taliban, who believed in bin Laden’s message so much that they believed every word he said about other countries trying to destroy the Islamic faith (Fadl 2). The Taliban, following Osama bin Laden’s orders, were able to recruit and manipulate followers by letting Muslims know that other nations were senselessly torturing fellow Muslims for no reason and that these countries are trying to destroy Muslim homelands (Fadl 2). Even after bin Laden’s death the Taliban still believe that other countries, mainly the United States, were out to destroy everything that Muslims believe in. Through bin Laden’s teachings that he had learned and then taught himself, was able to influence the Taliban by making them believe Muslims were going against the Qur’an and Muslim based countries needed to go back to the old ways where religion was the basis of every thought and movement.

Osama bin Laden grew up in Saudi Arabia where he was taught the ways of Wahhabi is just one branch of the Islamic faith (Fadl 1). “’Wahhabi’ is a term used to describe a follower of the puritanical teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an 18th century militant activist who sought to quash what he considered to be the many heretical innovations and practices that had come to plague the Muslim world” (Fadl 1). Bin Laden’s Wahhabi teachings lead him to the vicious ways of getting his m...

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