What is going on in the Middle East at the present time is governed by precisely the same ideology that I wrote about twenty years ago in my paper: Death to the Non-Believers: Political Violence as Terrorism, 

 Bin Laden elaborated upon his thinking: "Allah has ordered us to make holy wars and to fight to see to it that His word is the highest and the uppermost and that of the unbelievers the lowermost."

He said that the order to carry out jihad—to "kill and fight"—comes from God, who said in his holy Koran "fight them, and God will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you (to victory) over them, and heal the hearts of the believers."

Bin Laden stated that fighting and killing are necessary in order to make certain that "Allah's words are highest and uppermost," while the words of non-believers are "lowermost." Destruction of non-believers, he said, works to "heal the hearts of believers."