The title of the story is quite interesting..someone may have spoken the truth at last. However, Rediff would do well to interview muslim intellectuals and scholars in this matter rather than quoting some third-rate maulana bent upon creating divisions and fissures in the muslim community by their pronouncements.
Osama is neither a true Wahabi...nor a true Muslim. Only God knows whether his heinous and unIslamic acts in the name of Islam have taken him out of the fold of Islam. He has done more harm to Islam and muslims than all the Islam-bashers across the globe. Thanks to his strategies and tactics, Islam has never been so misunderstood as it is today - as a violent religion. No amount of show of affection and presentation of Islam by right-minded and rightly-guided muslims as a "religion of peace" seems to have any impact on the mindset of the average non-muslim brothers and sisters. One almost suspects he is kind of "devil-in-disguise" that Islamic scriptures and the Prophet pbuh warned about 1400 years ago who would be the biggest challenge to Islamic propagation...just check the statistics on Islamic organizations and activities in the US and elsewhere pre- and post-9-11!
