Saw this on Twitter and I had to comment.

“Let’s consider the evidence. Osama’s father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was the founder of the powerful Saudi Binladin Group, builders to Saudi’s royal family and Islam’s holiest sites. Already there’s a connection between architecture and religious zeal. Proving his worthiness to dad cannot have been easy for Osama, with 53 other brothers and sisters in contention, but he studied civil engineering in Jeddah evidently anticipating a place in the family business. For whatever reasons, that didn’t work out. So did his failure in construction leave Bin Laden with an architectural chip on his shoulder? Did he turn his architectural ambitions to global terror instead? Is it coincidence that “al-Qaida” could be translated as “the base” or “foundation”? Could his horrendous crimes, particularly the destruction of the twin towers, be seen as a form of extreme architectural criticism?”

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Surely, I am not the only one who thought, “Had he been accepted to art school, Hitler would have not become a dictator.”