Edited sentence: An even greater number regard him as a dangerous heretic, bandit and murderer, whose alliance with the Saud family resulted in the massacres of traditional Sunni Muslims in Mecca , Medina and Taif, as well as the continued destruction of traditional tombs and Mosques marking historical sites.On the other hand, there are many Islamic scholars who have observed that Salafism is divided into two or more subsects, one of which believes in obedience to the government and another which is willing to take up arms.Osama Bin Laden allegedly falls into the latter category.To Western observers, the terms "Wahhabism" and "Wahhabi" have become synonymous terms for "Islamic extremism" and "Islamic extremist"[] due to the events of [September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11, 2001], even though the salafi scholars refute this as being done by the salafis, because Osama Bin Laden was allegedly influenced in part by Sayd Qutb, and not exclusively by the Wahhabis