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Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' (deleted in The Guardian because of TikTok) (web.archive.org)

submitted 11 months ago by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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I just found out that Osama Bin Laden's "Letter to America" has been doing its rounds on TikTok but I haven't seen anything about it been posted here on Lemmy about it. Perhaps people already know about it, I'm not sure. This is a link to the wayback machine. The original in the guardian has just been deleted after being online for 20 years.

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[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Censorship is never the answer.

There are more than a billion Muslims in the world. Obviously, Bin Laden is an idiot. But within those billion Muslims there are enough other idiots that share his way of thinking. Enough that things like Hamas and ISIS are real threats to our societies.

I, for one, do not wish to engage in a holy war against these idiots on behalf of an Apartheid regime.

Neutrality in holy wars is a perfectly reasonable position to take.

If Netanyahu wants to desecrate their mosque, steal their land and kill their children, then we should condemn that. Not support it.

Our governments are painting a red flag on our backs and inflaming the stupid bull.

This will not end well.