DeLong-Bas has expressed the view that there is too much negativity towards Wahhabism in the West , and in her writings has argued that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was " not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements " , but " a voice of reform , reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought . His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in which Muslims , Christians , and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations . " DeLong-Bas believes that extremism in Saudi Arabia " does not stem from " Islam , but from issues such as oppression of the Palestinian people , " Iraq , and the American government 's tying the hands of the U.N. and preventing it from adopting any resolution against Israel , have definitely added to the Muslim youth 's state of frustration . " In an December 21 , 2006 interview in the London daily '' Asharq Al-Awsat '' , DeLong-Bas was quoted as stating that she did " ... not find any evidence that would make me agree that Osama bin Laden was behind the Attack on the Twin Towers " . A month later in '' The Justice '' — the student newspaper of Brandeis University ( where she was teaching at the time ) -- she disputed the quote , stating : " Of course he did . He 's the CEO of Al-Qaeda and the leader of their political agenda . All I claimed was that he did n't have anything to do with the logistics or the planning of the attacks themselves . " DeLong-Bas 's book '' Wahhabi Islam : From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad '' was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press . It is based " on a close study of the 14 volumes " of collected works of Wahhabism 's founder , Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and has been called " the first extensive explication of the theology " of Wahhabism . It is divided into sections : a brief religious biography and history of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab , theology , Islamic law , women and Wahhabism , jihad and the evolution of Wahhabism
Attack on the Twin Towers
September 11 attacks
Natana J. DeLong-Bas