“Despite the propaganda put out by "the West" (i.e., The U.S.), the goal of "Islamism" or "Islamists" is not to destroy the United States but rather to wage war militarily against the invasion of the lands of Islam. The U.S. has been occupying what UBL sees as his homeland and that of Islam for some 30+ years now. He sees his campaign as a defensive jihad, which is the duty of all Muslims, everywhere. Which is why a lot of 'moderates' are open to his message as well.”

Well, it is a little bit completed. The goal of the Islamo-fascist is not to wage war against the US as such; it is to wage war against the non-Muslim...
It is a political goal and a religious one, due to the fact Islam dictates the daily life, the life of the city, so it is pure politic.

The problem is we have to propaganda machines:
The Islamists, succeeding to convince the even moderates that it was a war against Islam (and forgetting the NATO intervention in favour of the Muslims in Bosnia and in Kosovo).
The ambivalence in speeches by the moderates, not keen enough to deny any right to Bin Laden to speak for them and even apparently sympathising with some a his grievances (he’s doing wrong but he’s got a point here) just give to OBL want he needed.
Even you had these stupid people, after the Knighthood of Saldam Ruzdie, giving to OBL the title the Sabre of Islam: they recognised and honoured a killer as one of them, and after they complained that the Western World doesn’t understand them…

The US President’s rhetoric based of the war of civilisations and the same kind of simplification and half and entire lies which led to the war in Iraq.

“For an example, look at the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Islamists fought them because they invaded an Islamic country and tried to wipe out the Islamic faith therein. There were no Islamic attacks on the SU prior to this, nor were there after they withdrew from Afghanistan.” It was more a war of liberation in the name of the Country and Nationalism than a war in the name of Islam.
The arrival of the Taliban recruited and trained in Pakistan, imposing Pakistani’s rules of Islam which made this war an Islamic War.
The invocation of the name of God doesn’t make a war a Religious war.

The Mudjahidin went to fight in Bosnia, in Algeria, and every where they could find a good infidel to fight... Put bombs in France as well, long before...