Bin Laden's death marks a key historical juncture, in that it offers us an opportunity to break away from the polarizing, divisive atmosphere he helped ignite and the paranoia and fear-mongering we unfortunately allowed to ensue in our culture as a result of it. For almost a decade, we have played into bin Laden's hands by allowing him and his outfit to dominate our national discourse on Islam and Muslims.

"It [Bin Ladens' death] brings closure for the families of 9/11, and all Americans, and hopefully brings closure on an era," said Rehab. "I hope now we can usher in a new era that focuses more on the Arab Spring which is the reality now, and less on the so-called War on Terror."

“The relevance of bin Laden should be overshadowed by the wave of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East,” said Yaser Tabbara, a Chicago attorney and member of the board of directors of the Council on American Islamic Relations. “Bin Laden was already marginalized, I’m someone who goes to the Middle East quite a bit and I haven’t heard his name in a very long time.”

"It is a double-edged sword and it has to be balanced out against the conspiracy theories that are likely to come out if there is no evidence provided by the government that this was Osama bin Laden," says Rehab.

"I think Obama should issue proof to the public that this was indeed bin Laden. We don't need to see gory photos. We don't need to put ourselves in a worse spot in terms of our national security, and so the DNA report, rather than the photos, can accomplish that," said Ahmed Rehab.

"I think Obama should issue proof to the public that this was indeed bin Laden. We don't need to see gory photos. We don't need to put ourselves in a worse spot in terms of our national security, and so the DNA report, rather than the photos, can accomplish that," said Ahmed Rehab.

"In Islam, people may pray for "justice, prosperity, for the nation and its leaders," said Ahmed Rehab. "Getting people from different faiths to pray together for the common good, the good of our nation, is positive."

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

"I don't think anything justifies torture. We as a civilized nation should be anti-torture. Many governments in the Western world, and the world in general are against torture. We don't want to be known as the ones who are employing a Spanish Inquisition torture technique to keep ourselves safe," said Rehab.

"I wish it would have happened sooner, so as to save trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. But nonetheless justice delayed is better than justice denied. We're very thankful for the fact that this man has been apprehended and eliminated," said Ahmed Rehab of CAIR-Chicago.

I sincerely appreciate that President Obama made that statement, and wholeheartedly agree that Osama bin Laden isn't an Islamic leader; that in fact, he's a mass murderer of Muslims," said CAIR-Chicago Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

"We've politicized 9/11, we've had costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with surges, military personnel, with trillions of dollars spent. And then at the end of the day it takes what we've been saying all along - good, hard intelligence and a committed group of surgical strikes," says Ahmed Rehab.

"I'm just waiting to see if this is going to change anything in terms of our foreign policy, our strategy in Afghanistan and the war of terror, and if it will change anything in Muslim-West relations," said Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

"I'm just waiting to see if this is going to change anything in terms of our foreign policy, our strategy in Afghanistan and the war of terror, and if it will change anything in Muslim-West relations," said Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

"We are optimistic; we are looking forward to a better day in which we can cooperate together for justice," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago.

"We are optimistic; we are looking forward to a better day in which we can cooperate together for justice," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago.

Amina Sharif, spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Chicago, sought to distance Islam from bin Laden during a news conference Monday. "Bin Laden never represented Islam and was never seen as a Muslim leader," Sharif said.