It is most important to look at the main objectives of Al Qaeda and for that matter most Islamic fundamentalists.
Al Qaeda has convinced a significant number of Muslims in the Islamic world and the West that it is their religious duty to fight the Holy War [Jihad] against powers “ conspiring” against Islam. Al Qaeda wants to create an Islamic Caliphate [super-state] across the Muslim world that removes secular regimes and restores Islam to global dominance.
It’s interesting to note that the UK probably has the worst levels of Islamic radicalisation in the Western world and will continue to be under threat until the extremists are rooted out. We should not delude ourselves into thinking for instance that solving the Palestinian problem [if that were possible] and removing any Western influence in the Middle-East in general would solve the extremist problem. Al Qaeda and it’s like have a far larger agenda which threatens Western civilisation.
