Yep Arafat is a constant house guest right?
No, thank God the Bush Adminstration has more sense than that.
The point is, radical Islam doesn't begin and end with, Arafat. What's apparently happening is that we're seeing the fruits of Wahhabist seeds sewn by the Saudis throughout America for the past several decades. And, unforutnately, Wahhabism has affinities with terrorism and jihad.
Here's a link to a thread about a new book on Saudi Wahhabism... Hatred's Kingdom