Many conspiracy and political theories formed after the attack on 9/11, especially about the intentions of the US government with their actions before and after the attack. The US has always had strong relations with the State of Saudi Arabia because of their oil deals. Despite growing up in a wealthy family who owned one of the largest oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Ladin despised American presences and influences in the country, so he left to form the terrorist group Al-Queda, aimed to attack and challenge the US.
Although the current media report about the fear of religious fanaticism, I think that perhaps some of these labeled fundamental groups have a bigger political motive than we thought. Many of the Islamic fundamental groups we see on the news such as ISIS or Boko Haram are extremely violent and often acting unfaithful to the religion they try to preach. Many Islamic nations and organizations often condemn these acts, making me doubt about whether the motives behind fundamentalist are truly religion based. Osama is himself hypocritical as he benefitted from the capitalist system growing up in a wealthy household that earn by selling oil.
After the recent Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, many retaliations on the Muslim community in France occurred, sparking even more friction and tension between the Muslims and non-Muslims. Its very possible that these fundamental groups attack with a political purpose of creating Muslim hate and fear, encouraging Muslims from those places to join their cause. This also evident in Muslim discrimination that occur in the US and in Europe. The media often describes the dangers of the spread of the radical version of the Islamic ideology, but probably in fact its not the case. We’ve barely heard or cared about any fundamental terrorists attack before 9/11 happened. So to summarize, the more fear, panic and hate these terrorists create amongst a non-muslim population, the more support and influence these groups actually get. It is not they who proliferated terrorism, but us who are scared and angry and inadvertently strengthened their movement.
