Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed. (Edward Said)

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

Edward Said

Related topics

bin lade land patriot prophet saudi arabia mohammed feels forces

Related quotes

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. View quote
Julius Caesar
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. View quote
Jim Morrison
Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. View quote
A. E. Housman
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. View quote
George Orwell