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What evidence do you have please? Seriously, there are just so many conjectures here. What Al Quaeda fundamentally likes or dislikes for instance, may have nothing to do with the actual reason pushing a young suicide bomber to accept the task. Many known cases of westerners becoming terrorists show a personal history of extreme religious views, which this sort of customs treatment can only serve to exacerbate, no?

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bin Laden has been fairly clear on this point: he doesn't think the United States should be involved in the affairs of Muslim nations. He thinks its an outrage that US troops are stationed in the same country as Mecca. There are other offenses on his list, to be sure, but this is the big one.

Sounds quite similar to this viewpoint: "In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple....meddling as little as possible in [other nations'] affairs where our own are not involved." — George Washington

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