War Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ Goes Viral 21 Years Later — on TikTok - The incendiary text was removed from the website of The Guardian after becoming a top-trending link


BY MILES KLEE
NOVEMBER 15, 2023

AS A FAMOUS @dril tweet noted of the terrorist group ISIS, “You do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them.'” Yet amid the continuing horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas militants, as people struggle to make sense of the violence and escalating rhetoric, more than a few people are willing to give al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden credit for his 2002 polemic against the United States, published as an explanation of the ideology that led him to orchestrate the attacks of 9/11.

“I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read — it’s literally two pages — go read ‘A Letter to America,'” said TikTok user Lynette Adkins in a video posted to the platform on Tuesday, referring to the title often given to the text by bin Laden. “Come back here and let me know what you think. Because I feel like I’m going through like an existential crisis right now, and a lot of people are. So I just need someone else to be feeling this too.”

Commenters felt similarly awestruck by the document. “Just read it.. my eyes have been opened,” wrote one. “Read our entire existence for filth and he did NOT miss,” another said of bin Laden’s criticisms of the U.S. The clip itself went viral, with other young TikTokers also sharing the letter approvingly, encouraging followers to read it. “We’ve been lied to our entire lives, I remember watching people cheer when Osama was found and killed,” wrote a 25-year-old user who posted the letter in full. “I was a child, and it confused me. It still confuses me today. The world deserves better than what this country has done to them.”


Writing a year after 9/11, bin Laden noted in his message that he was seeking to answer two questions that had occupied American media since that terrible day: “Why are we fighting and opposing you?” and “What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?” The first section is surely the most relevant to the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as it denounces the U.S. for helping to establish and maintain a Jewish state in the Palestinian territories. “The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals,” bin Laden argued. “Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.”

Bin Laden expounded further about how the oppression of Palestine had to be “revenged,” going on to impugn Western imperialism and hegemony in broader terms, before shifting into a justification for killing civilians in his jihad. “The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq,” he wrote. “This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.”

While some of bin Laden’s judgments would not have been out of place in mainstream American politics of the era — he takes the U.S. to task for not signing the Kyoto Protocol treaty on restricting emission of greenhouse gases, for example — the letter is also interspersed with antisemitic tropes and hate speech. He repeatedly wrote that the country was dominated by Jews who “control your policies, media and economy,” elsewhere condemning homosexuality and fornication as “immoral,” and accusing the U.S. of spreading AIDS, which he termed a “Satanic American Invention.” As for what al-Qaeda wanted, bin Laden said that the U.S. had to renounce its culture of “hypocrisy” and become an Islamic nation.

The top Google Search result for “Letter to America” directs to a page on the website of The Guardian, which published it in 2002. For a while on Wednesday, social media-driven interest in the text made it the publication’s top-trending story — but then the outlet removed the letter, and replaced it with a brief message: “This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s “letter to the American people,” as reported in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002,” it reads. “The document, which was published here on the same day, was removed on 15 November 2023.” No other explanation is offered.


The deletion prompted even more discussion on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), where people questioned the editorial decision and asked for other links to the document. “Thankfully they can’t wipe our memories, or undo our further radicalization,” wrote an X user who said it was “no coincidence” The Guardian took the article down after it made the rounds online. “They really want us to stay ignorant,” wrote another. A third reader argued that bin Laden “was not the bad guy.” But many were shocked to see sympathy for — or agreement with — the terrorist who masterminded 9/11. “These so-called TikTok leftists praising Osama Bin Laden now?” tweeted one person in apparent disbelief. “How do you get radicalized to be ridiculous?”

If nothing else, it must be a sign of how polarized and angry Americans have become over a Middle East conflict that has already claimed thousands of lives, and the role the U.S. has played in the region for decades. You know things are dire when, for some people engaged in the debate, an extremist mass murderer starts making sense.



The Guardian:
Nov 24, 2002: Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' | World news
Nov 15, 2023: Removed: document
This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s “letter to the American people”, as reported in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002. The document, which was published here on the same day, was removed on 15 November 2023.
 
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Jews: Your kids are going to be retarded and you're going to like it!
Also Jews: No, not like that!

Once again the golem backfires. How retarded are kids now that they think his demand of America becoming an "Islamic State" to repent is just something the USA should totally 100% have done?

Same as the retard kids in the UK calling on the government to vote to end the Israel Gaza conflict. It's amazing how the jews engineered the situation so perfectly for years, only for it to blow up on them like this.
 
I don't think Mein Kampf had an editor to say hey Adolf brevity is the soul of wit. We don't need to repeat a dozen times in exhaustive detail every single reason why the kikes suck and every single reason why poor Germany is the bestest that everyone seethes with envy and resentment of
Kind of hard to get a tard wrangler when you are essencially writing your magnum opus from inside a prison filled with collegue retards and criminals
 
Hippies don’t get nearly enough hate. They were the first big wave of subversive SJW faggots.
The entire hippy movement can be summed up as a loose coalition of idiots based on drug-addled treason and sexual lunacy to rival Sodom and Gamorrah. They were the first ones to take a wrecking ball to the marital contract, expose whole generations of vulnerable young people to sex habits comparable to wild dogs, defile public decency and attempt to overturn the requirement of being a productive adult to be accepted in socity. Arguably, with great success.
 
"Al Qaeda" is Arabic for "The Base."
Allegedly Osama bin Laden was a big science fiction nerd and he named Al-Qaeda after Isaac Asimov's fictional organization The Foundation.

Islamist terrorist names his group after American Jewish science fiction author's book is a very interesting story, and I am surprised more people don't talk about it

The Arabic word qaeda - ordinarily meaning "base" or "foundation" - is also used for "groundwork" and "basis". It is employed in the sense of a military or naval base, and for chemical formulae and geometry: the base of a pyramid, for example. Lane, the best Arab-English lexicon, gives these senses: foundation, basis of a house; the supporting columns or poles of a structure; the lower parts of clouds extending across a horizon; a universal or general rule or canon. With the coming of the computer age, it has gained the further meaning of "database": qaeda ma'lumat (information base).
 
Tom Nook does not charge interest and finances home expansions based on your good fiduciary behavior, he has more in common with islamic lending practices than jewish ones.
Tom Nook also doesn't:
  • Make you sign a contract that needs a third party dedicated to interpreting said contract, who will often charge you through the nose to do so
  • Take away your home if you go broke because you had to pay for food instead of your loan
  • Deny you loans based on any factor that's none of his goddamn business
  • Require additions to your home to be done/vetted by a third party even if you are completely qualified to do so.
  • Sock you with penalties for not having any money in your account, thereby penalizing the people who are in the most desperate financial position already.
From what I understand of Islamic financial practices he'd get two big thumbs up.
 
If Osama is so smart, why is he dead?

If Allah is on their side, how come the IDF is exterminating Hamas while they cry about a "ceasefire"?

Checkmate, faggots :smug:
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We are getting closer and closer to zoomers reading Mein Kampf in mass unironically.
Fun game!
Post these around and see how many people in your circles agree with these propositions!
  1. The unification of our comrades and the right of self-determination of our people.
  2. We demand equality of rights for our people.
  3. Access to land/living space for our people.
  4. Only a member of a given race can be a "member" of that race. ("Nothing about us without us.")
  5. Only members of the group get the benefits that come from it. Participation is mandatory to receive benefits.
  6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, be filled only by citizens.
  7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens.
  8. Immigration is to be halted.
  9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
  10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work.
  11. No more unearned income. No more rent or collection of money simply because you own something.
  12. Total confiscation of war profits to be redistributed to the people.
  13. Nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
  14. Division of profits of all heavy industries.
  15. Expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
  16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
  17. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
  18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest.
  19. Replacement of existing law with those better suiting the goals of these points.
  20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious person to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions.
  21. The state is to provide welfare, childcare, and healthcare for young citizens.
  22. We demand abolition of mercenary troops (e.g. Blackwater)
  23. We demand the censorship of media, news, and art that is potentially dangerous or harmful to the people.
  24. Freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger the state or cause harm to people.
  25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power within the government.
1. We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.
4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.
5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.
6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, office-holding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.
7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all Consequently we demand:
11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, Schieber and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
19. We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.
20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school [Staatsbuergerkunde] as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.
21. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that: a. All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race: b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the State to be published. They may not be printed in the German language: c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications, or any influence on them, and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life, and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.
24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: common utility precedes individual utility.
25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unlimited authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The forming of state and profession chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation. The leaders of the Party promise, if necessary by sacrificing their own lives, to support by the execution of the points set forth above without consideration.
 
Fun game!
Post these around and see how many people in your circles agree with these propositions!
Not even really surprising, most older leftists I've talked to will agree that Fascism/Nazism is just decayed and more exclusive socialism. My gen will be super surprised if they ever get around to reading Mein Kampf, Fuck censorship for that.
 
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Jews: Your kids are going to be retarded and you're going to like it!
Also Jews: No, not like that!

Once again the golem backfires. How retarded are kids now that they think his demand of America becoming an "Islamic State" to repent is just something the USA should totally 100% have done?

Same as the retard kids in the UK calling on the government to vote to end the Israel Gaza conflict. It's amazing how the jews engineered the situation so perfectly for years, only for it to blow up on them like this.
Something something "The best laid schemes of mice and men..."
 
A reminder, 9/11 was "Project Bojanka" a plan cooked up by Ramzi Yousef and others and had been known of by US intelligence since the 80's.
 
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