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From interviews with Osama bin Laden, you can find many in the book Messages to the World

>"So we tell the Americans as people," bin Laden said softly, "and we tell the mothers of soldiers and American mothers in general that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews. The continuation of tyranny will bring the fight to America, as Ramzi Yousef and others did. This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves."

>>18450067
Ibn Taymiyyah. Ibn Taymiyyah differed drastically with al-Ghazali on multiple points, for one, he rejected divine command theory, asserting even someone who wasn't a Muslim could grasp an understanding of justice.
https://youtu.be/tyu5RqtsFj0

Osama bin Laden, working within the same perspective, makes an appeal for justice to Amery without relying on Islam (until after 9/11, when Islam becomes his exclusive point as he no longer sees appeals to justice as tenable)

>"So we tell the Americans as people," bin Laden said softly, "and we tell the mothers of soldiers and American mothers in general that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews. The continuation of tyranny will bring the fight to America, as Ramzi Yousef and others did. This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves."

But perhaps more pertinent to Azzam's writing is Ibn Taymiyyah's understanding of Qadr: he eschewed occasionalism and understood Qadr rather as destiny. This lead to a major bifurcation in the understanding of spirituality, for the Sufis it became a theoria, a peace and serene detachment expressed in poetry and symbolic dances. For the jihadists it became a matter of actualization, all spirit was realized in act, even belief and disbelief ultimately had to have a strong grounding in action to be *actual*.
I wrote more extensively on this bifurcation in my thread, Guénon vs Wahhabism
>>/lit/thread/S17477743

Questions and comments welcome

>>16082921

What did he mean by this?