A letter to the bin Laden fan club

The Talk of the Day Thursday was the breaking story that some 25-year-old Left Coast “influencer” had discovered a tape of Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America” and posted it on Tik Tok, and received thousands of “likes” and positive statements from ignorant sheep viewers, mostly young.

This letter is to them.

What makes the mass murderer’s anti-Semitic message resonate was his alibi professed motivation: the U.S.’ support of Israel. The U.S. does. That is true. Almost everything else he said isn’t.

Unfortunately, Tik Tok (under fire by the Administration, many members of Congress, and from both Left and Right critics) responded to the blowback by deleting the video. The Guardian newspaper, which had published the text, also deleted it, followed by every other platform I checked, including Bryn Mawr college. It has been banned worldwide, shoved down the memory hole. 

This is precisely the wrong thing to do, because bin Laden talked about how the power structures lie, and this seems like an attempt by them to hide their sins.

It would be like banning Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” It is ugly, but instructive. 

One fragment of bin Laden’s letter did survive the purge.

Speaking of the U.S., he said, “They threw hundreds of thousands of soldiers against us and have formed an alliance with the Israelis to oppress us and occupy our land; that was the reason for our response on the eleventh.”

He hates America.

But not that much because he accepted American money, arms and intelligence when he was an Afghan “freedom fighter.” As such, yes, he was a shill for America in that proxy war against Russia. That makes him a hypocrite.

In the statement above, the only time we “threw hundreds of thousands of soldiers” against them was after he killed 3,000 innocent Americans on 9/11.

We have no alliance with Israel to oppress Arabs and occupy their land.

But bin Laden believed that Israel is Arab land, despite Jews having a presence there for at least 2,000 years. He probably believed that until his ticket was punched by Seal Team Six.

While he sent others out to fight the infidels, bin Laden remained in hiding for 10 years, and when the end came, he was hiding behind his wife. That makes him a coward.

Ar the time of 9/11, America did have troops in Arab countries, as bin Laden said. What he did not say is that the U.S. soldiers were there at the invitation of the Arab nations to protect them from, yes, terrorists like bin Laden.

Tik Tokkers, you have to understand that bin Laden didn’t just hate Israel, he hated America, and Americans. That’s why it was so easy for him to justify the mass murder, in the name of Allah.

And he did not just hate Israel, and America, and you. He hated the West,  and Western values.  He wanted sharia law, everywhere. He was leading a worldwide global jihad against the values that allow you to have a cell phone with which to follow influencers like Lynnette Adkins, who’d be wearing a burka, if he had his way.

And your LGBTQIA+ and trans friends? You want to guess what your shining blight would have in store for them?

If you use Tik Tok, you are probably young, so let me bring home his evil to you in terms you will understand: He would behead Adam Sandler.

In the Way Back Machine, I know a lot of campus types were enthralled by Adolf Hitler in the ‘30s, with him promising a better life for the oppressed. Not just college students, but even an American hero like aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Yes, stupid is, as stupid does, when you are unable to see the enemy for who he is.