One of the stated goals of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born leader of Al Qaeda, was to drive Western military forces out of the kingdom, the birthplace Islam and home to its two holiest cites, Mecca and Medina.
That presence, in a kingdom that is home to Islam's two holiest cites, has been cited repeatedly by Osama bin Laden, whose Saudi citizenship was revoked in 1994, and by some militant Saudi clerics as the main justification in their calls for a holy war against the United States and its Saudi allies.
At an interfaith service, he read from the Koran, Islam's holy book, citing a section about Cain and Abel that says that if one saves a single life, it is as if one has saved many.
In August, just weeks after an firebomb attack on the Church of Loaves and Fishes in northern Israel, Gopstein appeared to justify arson attacks on Christian holy sites, citing the teachings of 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides on destroying idol-worship.
Even after the Riyadh bombing, anonymous writers on the internet chat sites where militant views proliferate have cited holy scripture to explain that the end justifies the means.
Newspaper reports from that Holy Thursday, April 11 , 1963 cite Rastafarians armed with machetes and guns who set fire to a gas station, seeking revenge for expulsion from the owner's land.
In Ethiopia, stigma and preference for traditional medicine and "holy water" were cited as some of the reasons for loss to follow-up from ART clinics [ 45].
He cites the contribution to what he describes as the "holy war in search", the battle between Google and Microsoft's Bing.
Bin Laden accused the Americans of "desecrating holy Arab soil", and cited Qur'anic verses forbidding the presence of two religions in Arabia.
"Holy, backlash," TVLine said, citing the "firestorm" that erupted after Katic's ouster.
