Osama bin Laden has been able to manipulate Islam to fuel his jihad. ... Scheuer (2011) also pointed out that after the death of the father, the bin Laden brothers continued to establish a distorted Islamic stronghold over Osama by setting up meetings and between the young Osama and Islamic scholars and figures (p. ... Scheuer (2011) illustrated how Islamic scholars influenced him into throughout his life: "Until well into the 1990s, a central aspect of Osama's faith was his belief that all Islamic scholars merited respect and that the best of them were the natural leaders in reforming Mu...

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