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Yes, obviously. What did you imagine it was? Something mind-numbingly ignorant like "they hate us for our freedoms"?

Here is a free clue for you: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796

And some notes on his influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27alim_fi_al-Tariq

They do indeed "hate us for our freedoms" and the mind-numbingly ignorant position is to deny it.

Wow this place has really gone down if people like you feel comfortable expression your ignorance so openly. "Hate us for our freedoms" was the idiotic excuse Bush used because he wasn't intelligent enough to give us anything meatier. Only the simplest of the simple ever actually believed it.

I would tell you to go educate yourself but if you honestly buy this line now in 2013 I don't suppose there's anything more than can be done for you.

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