Is Al-Qarda's danger overrated?

A question to fevered minds:

Is Al-Qaeda’s danger to the world overrated? Let’s face it - These are barely literate people, living in caves, milking goats, impoverished,, far away from our shores, without access to a banking system, using obsolete weapons we gave them decades ago..

How much of a danger are they really to us? - How is it possible that we have become so gullible to media propaganda?

Who benefits from this hype?