The Guardian removed a 21-year-old letter from Osama Bin Laden after a TikToker urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader’s missive.

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    Very fascinating really, mostly religious mumbojumbo but he did make some points that are relevant till this day like

    "The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes.

    Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism."

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      That’s for a reason they say “even a stopped clock is right twice a day”. The fact that it was that broken clock and that his words can be perceived as still relevant after more than 20 years hints that the world has not progressed. Despite technology we’re still facing the same problems, plus some more (eg. climate).

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        Climate was already known to become the future’s biggest problems for a long time back then. I read once that Al Gore campaigned in the 1980s with climate change as one of the action points. So no, it’s not a new problem.

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        from what I recall there was a fair amount of people saying that Bin Laden had some fair points, even at the time, but that the methodology was, of course , vile and reprehensible.

        • You can read it yourself and it’s obvious.

          Yeah industrial waste is bad, good point! Dude still subscribes to ideology that sees women executed for learning to read. Anyone who doesn’t agree with his worldview is a “disbeliever” and an acceptable target for murder.

          These are the insane ramblings of someone with zero ability to empathize with others or think critically about their beliefs. He believes in nonsense. Prophets on prophets until Mohammed came along and said “god is all powerful but I am the last prophet and there can be no prophets after me.” Hmm, guess God isn’t all powerful and the whole thing is a crock of shit then.

          OBL was a typical Republican.

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            I was more trying to highlight the weirdness of feeling at the time that there was a wall of ultra-jingoistic nationalism in the wake of a huge tragedy (cf. the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled for not liking Dubya Bush), and then some people reading Bin Laden’s work and trying to have a level headed conversation about the causes, impacts and diplomacy going forward in the face of “Saudi operatives attacked us, let’s bomb Afghanistan(?!)”