🚨 BREAKING: In a surprising move today, The Guardian removed Osama bin Laden's "Letter To America" today after having posted it since November 24, 2002! The reason? It was going viral on Tiktok. Muslim terrorist groups don’t hate us because of our culture. The real reason is our support for Israel.

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[–]cunninglingus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

An interesting development, and I think this shows another (of many) example of Israel's attempts to control the narrative.

The letter: https://sa-unp.org/first-open-letter-to-american-president

A good explanation of what happened: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-goes-viral-21-years-later-tiktok-1234879711/

EDIT: the link above to the Guardian cache now leads to a 404 error. Another link: https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/218e2431-0b76-43ff-8ac5-284ae73d29ad/content

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, Osama makes some good points. If we weren't with Israel, the problems with Islam would all go away.

And what did we do? We got entangled with Islam, spent trillions that are gone, thousands of us Americans died and for what? A foreign country?

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        [–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        I'm confused. It this suppose to be the letter?

        [–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Yes - though I've put a PDF link to it in my post above. SO now I'll delete the text boxes.

        [–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        More astroturfing

        [–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

        And it's gone

        https://twitter.com/jodi_withani/status/1725335135925543262

        Which indicates this wasn't driven by China but Islamists.

        Edit: https://twitter.com/aimhumor/status/1725315160040956056

        [–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        yeah it went viral on tiktok but would have gone even more viral but china started blocking it (they run tiktok). It could also be that Biden had a chat with Xi about it at their recent meeting.

        [–]Oyveygoyim 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        😲 I would've never guessed that

        [–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        I guess this was trending on TickTok however I would never have known about this or read it until they removed it. So now I'm like "What are they hiding?"

        They are creating a cobra effect.

        [–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        so did you read it then? Do you agree with bin laden that we must all accept islam?

        [–]mfinn999 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        I mean, the whole bombing the shit out of the middle east for decades didn't help either.