Don't know about Al Qaeda, but Aum Shinrikyo (the Japanese cult
responsible for the Tokyo subway Sarin gas attacks) founder Shoko
Asahara used Foundation as a blueprint for the millennium and
beyond, modeling himself on Hari Seldon. Like Asimov's scientists,
Asahara preached that the only way to survive was to create a
secret order of beings armed with superior intellect,
state-of-the-art technology, and knowledge of the future. This from
the fellow whose goal, when he graduated from high school, was to
become the supreme leader of a robot kingdom. (Source: 1999
Congressional Research Service, reprinted as mass market paperback
entitled "Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why.")
Further evidence of SF's infiltration into the narrative of
consensus reality.
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