As a Muslim bin Laden constantly invokes Islamic themes. "We ask Allah to bestow us with victory, He is our Patron and He is the Most Capable," he declared in a 1996 "declaration of war." But the killing of innocent people is not sanctioned by the Koran, the Islamic holy book. Bernard Lewis, perhaps the leading scholar of the Islamic world in America, said that "For many -- perhaps most -- Muslims," bin Laden's views are a "grotesque travesty of the nature of Islam and even of its doctrine of jihad…"