Burchill says that "terrorism is a method not a cause." and " it is a mistake to conflate these attacks into a centralised and co-ordinated struggle between fundamentalist Islam and the West."
Burchill is clearly mistaken;
After the attack 9/11 Al Qaida spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said "The American interests are everywhere all over the world. Every Muslim has to play his real and true role to uphold his religion and his nation in fighting, and jihad is a duty."
" ...I want to talk on another point, that those youths who did what they did and destroyed America with their airplanes did a good deed. They have moved the battle into the heart of America. America must know that the battle will not leave its land, God willing, until America leaves our land, until it stops supporting Israel, until it stops the blockade against Iraq.
The Americans must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop, God willing, and there are thousands of young people who are as keen about death as Americans are about life.
The Americans must know that by invading the land of Afghanistan they have opened a new page of enmity and struggle between us and the forces of the unbelievers. We will fight them with the material and the spiritual strength that we have, and our faith in God. We shall be victorious.
The Americans have opened a door that will never be closed. "
