Am i right, what seems to be the same today if it hadnt been for the ideas of this one particular person, and you did an excellent job in talking about it and the looming tower. It was really an illustrative example of a lack of understanding of the different mindsets. Could you comment on that . I think it always goes back to a book. You can look at any of the religions. Theres a book at the bottom of it. Every Great Movement you have marxism goes back to does kapital and even the Animal Rights group the sacred text at the bottom of it and at the bottom of radical islam is milestones along the way and its written by he came to america and hated it so much and came back and attacked it. When he was in prison he wrote a book called that he smuggled out of prison and a galvanized muslims about the obligation to muslims and jihad in the world. The answer to your question is i dont know the things would have turned out as they had without that book but that book made the movement possible.
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