With all of our hysteria over terrorism it needs to be emphasized that the Islamic rebellion movement was caused by two Americans: Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson.
Thomas Jefferson, with his call of equality and liberty for all men, lead to not only the French Revolution and other anti-colonial movements, but the current Islamic rebellion now since Jefferson himself said that every government arises from the consent of the governed, something Arabs have taken to heart as they oppose the American Empire and Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, needs to be examined not as a docuмent of awe-inspiring truth, but as war propaganda used to legitimize the American Revolution with the higher cause of liberty for all men.
Woodrow Wilson, with his calls of self-determination of all men, also caused it because Arabs and Islamic peoples take that to heart as well, as they wish to rule themselves and to control their own destinies.
Finally it needs to be emphasized, that we consider 9/11 an act of evil, while Al Qaeda saw it as a legitimate target since we ignored their bombings of military and political targets. The same could be said of our bombings of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Dresden, all sanctified by us as a legitimate act of war, though considered by Germans and Japenese terrorism, and it was indeed war terror.