Osama Bin Laden: Criminal Values

Osama Bin Laden is the most famous criminal born in Saudi Arabia, more than all because he planned the attack to the twin towers in New York, the 9/11 tragedy. Now is considered the enemy number one of United States and is the most searched criminal.

Despite of that, from the Bin Laden's perspective he didn´t do something bad. All the opposite, according to his beliefs and the way that he interpret his religion, he did a great and good thing and the people that share his beliefs now consider him as a hero, because he attacked what the islamic fundamentalists called the evil, the United States, the huge civilization. Taking that on account, we can think that Osama Bin Laden, despite of be considered as a terrorist for the most of the people, is possible that he has some important values.

The values that has Osama are basicly the Jihad values. This values have relation to the term "saint war" and it refers principally to combat in way of God against the devils, the people that attack them. So the Osama's values are faith, struggle, fortress and bravery and are focus on the way to reach the desires of his god. According to that, we can say that Osama is a person with significant values.

But in my opinion the values that this criminal has are focused wrong and maybe he misinterpret the teachings of the Koran and their god, because in the Koran is said that attack your enemies and the people that are not believers of the Islam, but also the Koran says attack when those people have attacked you and never be the aggressor. This means that, although Osama has some important values that induce him to act according his beliefs, not necessarily the causes are appropriated.

In conclusion, Osama is a famous criminal with values like faith, struggle and bravery but he do not focus these values in a good way, so because of that he is a terrorist. He has the desire of apply the teachings of the Koran, but he maybe misinterpreted these teachings.


Source: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions. (1999). Ed. Wendy Doniger. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 087-7790442. , Jihad, p.571