As the character played by John Huston, said in Chinatown, “Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Beware, so do terrorists! The world just witnessed the burial of one reconstructed murderer in Ramallah, and if we are not careful, we might reconstruct another. It is high time to put Bin Laden in perspective. Islam is not his prime motivation. Perhaps too much ink has been spilled trying to expose Osama bin Laden to a Western audience. As many writers have thoughtfully argued, we have created the myth of Bin Laden through all our media...