We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Bin Laden's criticism of the Saudi monarchy led them to try to silence him. "
This belief in conjunction with violent jihad has sometimes been called Qutbism after being promoted by Sayyid Qutb. The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan where bin Laden spent many years.

He studied there in college until 1979 when he joined the mujahideen forces in Pakistan against the Soviets in Afghanistan. : /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɨd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎ ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10 1957 – May 2 2011) was the founder of al-Qaeda the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.