Explanation
The text presents Bin Laden as an actor who rehistoricizes hostility toward the United States through a narrative of humiliation, the dismantling of the caliphate, and the Crusades. He is also a model of a discourse that fuses theology with violence and turns jihad into a sacred war with a global mobilizing horizon.
Referred to by
- Afghanistan must be understood within a political network, not as an isolated target
- Globalized Islam differs from true Islam
- Jihad turns into a sacred war
- Jihad is redefined as a sacred war that goes beyond defense
- The Crusades symbolically direct the conflict
- Modern hostility is understood through a long historical narrative and a symbolic construction of the enemy
- The United States embodies the historical enemy
- Less destructive alternatives
- Bin Laden and the revolutionary Guevara
- Bin Laden rehistoricizes hostility
- Bin Laden is presented as a global theological revolutionary
- The dismantling of the caliphate expands the conflict
- Discourses of the enemy, jihad, and al-Qaeda produce transnational sacred violence
- Linking Bin Laden to Mullah Omar
- The rise of power after bipolarity
- The necessity of disabling the network
- An ideological reading of Islam
- Bin Laden’s theological reference frame