that's not true.

you need to look at the organsisations individually. you have your chechnyan rebels wating an independant state, you palestinians wanting palestinian land. then you have your al-qaeda's which require a brief history lesson.

must of the arab world was owned by western governments. then we left during the first half of the 20th century and enplaced democratic governments. these though were mostly corrupt and were over thrown. these coups were down my military types and they instated a dictatorship (libya, iraq). and they tried to be all western. one country was an anamoly. iran. it reversed this trend. went back to the muslim routes. but still took in western ideas. (unlike afghanistan). it was the worlds first muslim state. and this seemed like a good idea. so people tried their own little revolutions to imitate it. these in suadi arabia, libya, iraq, egypt all ended in bloody miserable failure. after the fall of the berlin wall and the rise of the taliban in afghanistan (people there believe they not the west crushed russia). one man stood out. bin laden. he liked these new islamic state ideas and after sudi arabia rejected his idea to fight against iraq after the invasion of quwait. they rejected him and he became very bitter about this tried his own little revolutions and was eiled to sudan. in sudan he would lead another revolution which is successful and put in place the sudanese government which is now busy committing genocide.

bin laden and his general had a brain wave. attacking all these small arab states was not the answer. they were all aided and helped by one country. america. to remove the head of the snake was the new plan. this would have two reasons. it would make creating islamic states easier because you would limit resistance without american aid. and you would impress would be followers by showing that you had the power to defeat the super power.

this idealogy resulted in the embassy bombings after which bin laden was kicked out of sudan and returned to afghanistan (now even more bitter than he was before after being exiled twice). he had the idea of the big attack. the pearl harbour of terrorism. 9-11. the actual plan was in fact bigger than what happened. it was limited due to various arrests and lack of funding. there werw a few other attacks planned that were foiled. blowing up a few planes of the pacific. the assination of the pope in his plane. etc.

al qaeda was formed on the basis of the creation of a fully islamic arab world in the same way iran is/was.

there are of course other organisations. ones fighting for a sole cause like iraq. ones that are extreme right wing wanting the death of all jews in israel. but the vast majority are not.

frankly these people have been screwed over again and again and again. in palestine, iraq, iran, turkey, arabia, chechkya, kashmire, before that when europe controlled the middle east. and the islamic state idea was the answer.

but these people are angry and with good reason.