The wages of worship is death.

“It is the duty of all Muslims to kill infidels, especially Americans” thus spake Osama Bin Laden; who had the soft demeanor of a sage and not a killer, though one could detect a predatory quality extolling terrorism and conquest “prophetically”. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia then helped the Mujaheddin fight the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, then built al Qaeda as the base, from which he outsourced it to the world. Though he has no political ideology nor was considered a visionary yet in American culture and urban legend he is the sinister guru of the violent and the deranged. His hatred of Americans and the Bible belt was a valuable moral stimulant that would energize zealous Muslims to violence and martyrdom.
His obsession was to drive out infidels establish Palestine and destroy Israel and eject the “heretics” who ruled Saudi Arabia. Wahhabist fundamentalists used Osama’s elitism and scorn of the west as a weapon to fight against the Americans. He argues that we must purify Islam with a violent form of Jihad; the holy duty of all Muslims is to continue to fight to make Allah’s word victorious by using the eye for an eye justice system. He was a leader who rallied against the pretensions of despotic rulers and their orthodoxies in an age that was clamoring for revolt against inherited and dynastic authority. He was the king of terrorism who sat in his parlor and ate yoghurt and honey which he loved, and took his children to the beach to sleep under the stars, according to his 5 wives.

A man who as no other embodies in himself all the hatred, pain, sickness and violence, all the age, galvanizing the youth of our tortured times; Osama Bin Laden the patron saint of religious violence and terrorism. A man whose mind has been inoculated with the worst symptoms of the violent disease of violence and wanton destruction. Cushioned and contained by the sanctity of religion, his challenge to peace and humanitarianism is in sharp contrast to truth and goodness which for him are essentially meaningless terms. The abject decadence of religion and animalisization of the human being were all part of his essence before the bullets of the Special Forces cut him down and at the same time exalted his station. The polite, pious boy under the tutelage of Abdullah Azzam became the coldest of the cold monsters. Americans love life, Muslims love death he stated after 9/11. Mounted like the prophet on a white horse, he claimed that he had destroyed the myth of the superpowers. Though he is stone dead, his dream lives on through al-Qaeda.