Bin Laden
In recent days, Bin Laden’s letter to the American people after his attack on the Twin Towers has been widely circulated on TikTok (I assume American). It basically explains why he attacked America. It turns out that there are people (and quite a few) who, after reading the letter, realized that they understood Bin Laden and agreed with him (or at least they no longer considered him as bad as they had thought).
What I wanted to ask is how can it be or what makes people agree with the words of a terrorist for whom their punishment is also death? I don’t know if that’s a good question, it’s just that this whole thing hasn’t done me much good.
Thank you very much.
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I don’t know the letter. But if you want to ask something, you should be more specific.
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Letter to America:
Bin Laden's letter.
There are actually good arguments there. Of course, they don't justify any harm to people.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081002/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html
It's unpleasant to admit. There are a few sections there that make you look at the story from a slightly different angle.
I would like to add that of course it does not justify, etc., as Elhanan wrote –
I certainly feel that way and I am sure that all the claims are crocodile tears of cruel terror, one that would murder and forcibly convert anyone who is not Muslim (and not as claimed in one of the sections “Just leave us alone, if not – watch us in New York and Washington”)
But it does make you think. Because overall 9/11 was pretty sterile (sterile?! – relative to 7/10 for example) without cruelty for its own sake and the goal was Western government and capitalist symbols – And the manifesto is close to the claims that the American left identifies with (for example, the US's intervention in every possible government, every possible war, and in general everything). It is possible to understand why young Americans lacking critical thinking fell for this.
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