Bin Laden’s appeal exceeds that of prior pan-Arab and pan-Islamic revolutionaries

Evidence

But others in the not-too-distant past have appealed to similar sentiments, and offered similar inducements, without evoking similar support. Something else is involved, which marks him off from earlier exponents of pan-Arab, pan-Islamic, and other revolutionary movements against Western domination. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1768 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yet he remains an enormously popular figure not only with the extremists and radicals who form his main support group, but in much wider circles in the Muslim and more particularly in the Arab world. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1767 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bin Laden’s appeal reached far beyond extremists to broad Arab publics — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1767; Earlier anti-Western revolutionary movements lacked bin Laden’s popular reach; Earlier anti-Western movements failed to win bin Laden’s level of popular support — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1768

Broader Connections

• Bin Laden’s appeal reached far beyond extremists to broad Arab publics #expands (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1767
• Earlier anti-Western revolutionary movements lacked bin Laden’s popular reach #corroborates (0.95)
• Earlier anti-Western movements failed to win bin Laden’s level of popular support #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1768