| I think some people overlook what might be the personal phychology of Bin Laden and why he felt movitated to preach about attacking America.
His mother was the 7th bride to his father, and in Islamic systems the first born son is the most important, that would put him way down on list of importance, meanwhile his brothers ahead of him got most of the attention from the father while he felt un-noticed and nearly fatherless relative to personal contacts. None the less he did get his fair share of money when his father passed away.
He secretly resented his father and his other brothers for being left out of the loop. His father was very wealthy and was involved in a number of busness deals with Ameirca. Much of his own family even lived in America and were active in our capitalistic world, they were in the construction busness and built buildings and other things. They even built some of the buildings used by the company the Vice President worked for, and had attened meetings involving perhaps the Bush family or other important people who later were voted into office during the last election.
And so in my own review of Bin Laden motivations I think he was expressing his resentment towards his own wealthy father and family, the image of Ameirca represented in his mind the image of his own father who became wealthy mostly because of deals made with us. He saw America as the dark monster haunting his soul because he could not bring his self to hate his own father directly in his consciousness so he selected alter-image to point blame at. In phychology they know about such idenity shifting but I forgot the name they use for it. It is like when someone who attacks women in general might be expressing a deep seated resentment of his own mother that he has blocked out.
The World Trade Center would have combined his disslike for capitolism (the wealth of his father) and as a symbol for the power his father had in the worldly community, or that of his brothers.
Although Bin Laden has lots of money in a bank he lived a life of poverty, in caves and poor places, even rejecting his own country for being under the thumb of wealth within the ruling class. Representing his own rejection of the wealthy family he was part of.
He then used religious sounding speeches as a Sage to gather support for his personal cause, to gain justice for his rejection and abuse as a child, and because he had transfered his dislike of his father to a dislike of the American image he, and his following, thought they were attacking the devil (America), not seeing the real demons that haunted them from the past.
He should have used his money on a good shrink.
That is my own opinon. Technosoul. |