DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - in life, Osama bin Laden was burned in the Muslim consciousness in innumerable ways: the lion of holy warriors, the untouchable West nemesis, the evil zealot who soiled their faith with blood and intolerance.
Death, however, the voices around the Islamic world are now relatively tempered sharp counterpoint to the rage and shame - or hero-worship - that he has long inspired. .
For some, the account of the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid of U.S. early Monday on his compound of Pakistan is still much too much to accept. Application for a position on a militant Web site: "A really dead Sheikh."
But a more complex explanation for the relative calm on Muslim street is, in fact, on these same streets.
Across the Arab world pro-democracy uprisings suggest to many fist tight with al-Qaida ideology has little room for a new generation seeking Western-style political reforms and freedoms - even if al-Qaeda branches still keep soil in places such as the Yemen and Pakistan.
"Ben Laden dies in Egypt before being killed in Pakistan," said Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, Professor of political science at the University of Emirates. "Youth who successfully challenged the status quo with peaceful means proved to change the way in which the bin Ladens - the violent way, Jihad way - has not been."
Janitor Lebanon Saad Hariri, Prime Minister - which took office after his father Rafik Hariri was killed in a truck bombing 2005 - Beirut said dead Osama bin Laden used to something of a moment of silence for those killed by al-Qaeda or groups that borrowed their creed of violence.
"Any Arab or Muslim, who believes that terrorism is destructive and harmful to Arabism and Islam, could not but receive the news of the fate of bin Laden with feelings of sympathy to the family of thousands of victims who died in different regions of the world".Thanks to him, or by his orders, "said a statement by Saad Hariri.
Even in Iraq, there were a few public outpourings of happiness or grief in a country that has suffered years of relentless bombing and attacks by groups linked to al-Qaeda targeting forces American or U.S.-backed supporters of the Government.
A political analyst based in Baghdad, Hadi Jalo, said that it seems to reflect a change in the Sunni insurgent groups that called for an Islamic Caliphate of medieval style in Iraq once. They are now more and more plotting ways to influence the political world of the Iraq with American troops had to leave at the end of the year.
"Iraq today is different from the Iraq in 2004, 2005 and 2006," said Jalo. "If the news of the death came at this time, we would see mourning ceremonies in different areas where the insurgents of al-Qaida were active."
In the neighbouring countries of the Iran - which supports the Shiite militant enemies of militants of al-Qaeda the Iraq - death of Osama bin Laden brought few of reactions in public, but it has been used by the Islamic rulers of jab at Washington. Comment Wednesday by the Iran unofficial Fars News Agency fun hunting epic costs about these past ten years for most wanted American figure and its wars in the region.
"American lives are lost." Innocent civilians are killed. Many of the conflicts seem to be aware of to continue during a long period of time, ", said the Agency, which is closely aligned with powerful guards the Iran of the revolution."
The absence of major public outpourings or statements of al-Qaida also add another layer of speculation on his future. Most assumed that the top of the page helps Ben Laden, born in Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, is the heir apparent al-Qaeda. He there has been only isolated calls for quick revenge against the United States of demonstrators or on jihadist Web sites.
A few hours after the announcement of the death of bin Laden, however, Director of the CIA Leon Panetta warned that "terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge" the assassination of the brain behind the terrorist attacks of September 11.
"Bin Laden is dead," Panetta wrote a memo to the staff of the CIA. "Al-Qaeda is not."
In southern Karachi of Pakistan on Wednesday, about 1,000 lament joined prayers for Ben Laden arranged by a charity linked to the militant. But there was some other protests in the country that bin Laden has used as fugitive base for years.
In the pre-9/11 bin Laden stronghold, Afghanistan, many people still refused to believe that he was dead in spite of positive DNA tests Washington. On Wednesday, President Obama said that in the United States does not publish the photo of the body of Osama bin Laden was taken after that he was killed.
"I do not think that he is dead," said Salam Jan Rishtania, a student of 26 years in Kandahar. "I do not trust the Americans because they are playing games here.". This can be a part of their game. ?
Yet, there are some acts of homage in other parts of the Muslim world.
About 25 people in the Gaza Strip held photos and posters of bin Laden Tuesday. On the podcast of the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera channel, some leased bin Laden messages among several others denouncing him.
"You are the Sheikh of the Mujahideen (holy warriors)." "God can grant you heaven," said a position. Another read: "You are in the sky, Sheikh Osama."
Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of Gaza controlled by Hamas, has interpreted bin Laden as the victim of a funded by the State "terrorist act."
"We disagree with the vision of the Holy Warrior Osama bin Laden, but we condemn this terrorist act," Haniyeh told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "That the United States is not a heroic action, but a targeted assassination." ... To pursue and kill in Pakistan, which is a Muslim land, means to us another intervention in the lands of Islam. ?
But in Somalia, where a radical Islamist group dominates over large parts of the country, demonstrators marched lost through exhibits hosted by the Government of the capital Mogadishu and burned a flag, that they said represented al-Qaida.
They chanted "terror, terror go away." "Little children want to play."
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