Osama Bin Laden may’ve not been such a foul man in any case — not less than that is what a bunch of TikTokers assume … this after studying a post-9/11 letter he wrote, in the event you can imagine that.
This is the deal … correspondence that the notorious terrorist architect of Sept. eleventh wrote again in 2002 — in response to the query of why he and his al-Qaeda followers carried out the lethal assaults — has been going viral over the previous 24 hours or so, however in a wierd method.
Over the previous 24 hours, hundreds of TikToks (not less than) have been posted the place individuals share how they simply learn Bin Laden’s notorious “Letter to America,” through which he defined why he attacked the US.
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Primarily, a bunch of individuals on-line learn his “Letter to America” and apparently see some benefit in his arguments over why he and his fellow terrorists determined to kill hundreds of American civilians … and sure, this all has to do with the present Israel-Palestine battle.
You possibly can go learn the letter by yourself, however OBL explicitly mentions the U.S.’s function within the Center East relationship again a long time … and claims our nation has mainly given him and his cohorts no selection however to retaliate to what he characterizes as unjust meddling within the area.
He additionally notes he is a Palestine sympathizer … and that appears to be why all these Individuals now are posting TikTok responses and suggesting — “Y’know what, maybe he had a point.”
It is a wild development, and it is gone viral — a lot so, in truth, that one of many solely mainstream Western publications that also had the letter up on their web site (The Guardian) truly took it down … and their rationale boils right down to it not having their unique correct context.
In fact, it is comprehensible why they’d take away it … seeing the way it justifies committing mass homicide on many, many Individuals — one thing some of us in 2023 appear to chill with!
Like we stated, a lot of the of us reconsidering their view on 9/11 are echoing the pro-Palestine/anti-Israel rhetoric we have seen in protests for weeks now … and whereas some try to stroll the road of condemning Bin Laden’s techniques for coping with his grievances (aka, lethal terrorism) and supporting his root trigger, others are blurring the road a bit.
If that sounds regarding … properly, that is ‘trigger it’s. Those that are discovering validity in Bin Laden’s key factors are actually saying they had been brainwashed by U.S. propaganda into hating the man and supporting the American effort to root out radical Islamist terrorism within the ’00s.
Naturally, others are screaming revisionist historical past … and are beside themselves that any American might see Bin Laden as an oppressed sufferer. Speak about always remember, huh?