Both Bush and bin Laden framed the world as bifurcated into modernity and medievalism
Evidence
- Bush and bin Laden provided similar visions of a world bifurcated by modernity and medievalism. Both utilized religious language and outlined who the enemy was (for Bush, radical Islamicists; for bin Laden, anyone but radical Islamicists). See Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003), 29. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 762