Hypersonic

I have posted this before:

Bin Laden:
"As to the relationship between Muslims and infidels, this is summarized by the Most High's Word: "We renounce you. Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us — till you believe in Allah alone." So there is an enmity, evidenced by fierce hostility from the heart. And this fierce hostility — that is, battle — ceases only if the infidel submits to the authority of Islam, or if his blood is forbidden from being shed, or if Muslims are at that point in time weak and incapable. But if the hate at any time extinguishes from the heart, this is great apostasy! Allah Almighty's Word to his Prophet recounts in summation the true relationship: "O Prophet! Wage war against the infidels and hypocrites and be ruthless. Their abode is hell — an evil fate!" Such, then, is the basis and foundation of the relationship between the infidel and the Muslim. Battle, animosity, and hatred — directed from the Muslim to the infidel — is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them."


Bin Laden has been extremely clever ....his speeches designed for Westerners (and other non-Muslims) talk of Palestine and Israel and US foreign policy etc; While his speeches aimed at his own followers never mention these things at all. Bin Laden doesn't care less about US foreign policy or the Palestinian people -- he views the US as the leader of the infidels ...."the great Satan". But how wonderfully convenient to have half the western world undermining the "Leader of the free world" by blaming its foreign policy for all the problems in the Arab world.

And he is not the only one, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly stated that he has been divinely chosen as president for the sole task of provoking a "clash of civilizations" in which the Muslim world, led by Iran, takes on the "infidel" West, led by the United States.