OBL: THE WEST’S VERY OWN CELEBRITY TERRORIST: “Whether he was droning on about climate change or consumption, OBL’s ‘ideas’ were born and bred in the West,” Bill Durodié wrote yesterday at Spiked.

And of course, Osama wasn’t the only member of Al Qaeda to sound like a western postmodern academic, there was also “Mohamed Atta, Socialist Critic of Capitalism.”

All of which brings to mind what Mackubin Thomas Owens, a Naval War College professor, wrote in September of 2002: “9/11 revealed an emerging geopolitical reality: that the world’s most important fault line is not between the rich and the poor, but between those who accept modernity and those who reject it.”

Update: Rand Simberg isn’t surprised on the western sources of Osama’s ideas: “Most ideas that kill millions were born in the West.”