[Luis Gonzalez]

"This article is misguided because it looks for a deep theological explanation for Bin Laden."

Not at all, it paints bin Laden as an opportunist, using religion to gain power.

[ggekko]

I think you misunderstood my point.

Many people have become enamored with Samuel Huntington's thesis about the "war of civilizaztions". The posted article was premised on the Huntingon idea.

The simplest explanation is always preferable. In my view, we are not at war with Islam but with a series of Islamo-Facist states in the Arabian peninsula. We have relatively decent relations with several non-Arabic Moslem states such as Indonesia.