<And also, after 9/11, refusing in many circles to even ask "why" and merely consider them shortsightedly as evil, isn't an helpful way to avoid this to happen again.

I remember asking myself: how can they all have waited patiently and with such a methodical plan to take their own life, all together? It isn't just brainwashing (otherwise they would have been spotted as going "strange" or "crazy") but there was a commitment. A commitment motivated by recognition which they thought they only found in the way they died than in the way they were unable to get by leading a normal life.



Might be a good idea to go back and read bin Laden's letter again. Then tell me how we rationally deal with something like this.