.. regard Bin-Laden as an eventual successor of Saladin?
In spite of Muslims denunciation of bin-laden’s atrocities (especially Muslims living in western society) he is their hero. Of course Muslims will not confess how they truly feel about bin-laden because their too scared(well most of them anyway) In one of bin-laden’s video tapes he dwells on about what the crusaders did centuries ago to Islam and uses that grudge as his motivation for terrorism. If you think about it, Muslims never had a hero since Saladin of the 12th century who took on Richard the Lionheart of England.