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The Re-Branding Of Al-Qaeda?

By The Daily Dish

Sep 10 2007, 10:32 AM ET

Barnett Rubin offers an interesting analysis of OBL's latest vlog:

Most of the discussion of Bin Laden's recent video seems to me to have missed the point. Bin Laden is no longer just seeking to lead Muslims in a jihad against "Crusaders and Zionists"; he is proclaiming to the whole world that the genuine revolutionary alternative to imperialism, capitalism, global warming, genocide, moral decay, confused sex roles, the decline of the family, commercialism, and whatever else ails us is Islam. In this sense Bin Laden is indeed seeking to don the mantle of the last century's false prophets.

He really did read D'Souza, didn't he?



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