I think a group of characters whose chief talent is nursing grievance conspired to muck things up for the crowd they blame for every ill in their world.

Not that we don't have some culpability for some of the ills in their part of the world, I just don't buy their belief that if we were wiped off the face of the earth, the paradise that Allah has promised them will be ushered in.

Look at OBL's face. The guy is filled with arrogant delusion. You can see it in that dopey smile. A couple of passages from the Buddha's Dhammapada come to mind regarding those characters:

Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm.

Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good than one's own well-directed mind.

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