[breppp]

Saying the presence of American troops is the reason Bin Laden was anti-american is ideological flattening of Islamism, a movement from at least the 1920s that sees the entire failure of Islam in modernity as a product of western imperialism (a word that is very abused in their ideas), culture and ideas

[_DeadFred_]

OBL stated his reasons including the stationing of American troops in Saudi Arabia.

[breppp]

This is an overly US centric view which misses a lot of substance.

Bin Laden major start in jihadism was in afghanistan, while there were already US soldiers in his home nation of saudi arabia. for some reason that deployment wasn't deemed important enough to fight.

If you read a bit into the ideological influence of bin laden, such his teachers you would know the ideology is heavily based on the Muslim Brotherhood.

They do not only see a problem with western imperialism, which he incorrectly deduced the US deployment to be.

It also sees a major threat in western culture to Islamic values. The reason why the west needs to be fought in NYC rather than the troops in Arabia is because they felt Islam is under attack culturally. As in, everyone will throw their religion away, families will devolve and immodesty will be rampant.

So it is naive to think that if the US would not be involved in the Middle East then it won't be attacked, and it is replicating the pre-ww2 thought which was mildly unsuccessful

[_DeadFred_]

In this case we have OBLs primary writing to go on, and he is who laid out this motivation claim. I'm not sure your age, but this was talked about quite in depth at the time.

[breppp]

I'm sorry, not everything that was talked in depth in American media due to someone's propaganda pandering US isolationism can erase 80 prior years of written ideology

[_DeadFred_]

But the dudes OWN WRITING sure as heck can.

Keep on your agenda and ignore reality I guess.