Earlier anti-Western movements failed to win bin Laden’s level of popular support

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

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