Good post, Russ!
Extremists like Bin Laden view anything new (even things like cars) as bida'a which in Arabic means "innovation", but not innovation in the sense of progress, but innovation as in "perversion". There's nothing in Islam that forbids things like TV, computers, or technology in general. They just see only the negative aspects and declare it bad without realizing that there's a lot of good in technology as well.
Frankly, I hope we take a bit of our technology and pay him a visit, so to speak.
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