Bin Laden’s appeal reached far beyond extremists to broad Arab publics

Evidence

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1767
• XREF: connects to: Bin Laden’s appeal exceeds that of prior pan-Arab and pan-Islamic revolutionaries