Our Letter to America Challenge

Our response to the bin Laden letter that went viral on TikTok. Challenge your lib kids to listen if they are confused about being on the right side of history.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bin Laden's letter to America going viral over twenty years
since it initially was circulating and published. This is this
is quite a situation that is unfolding here. First, let's
let's go to this. TikTok has become the social media

(00:22):
website of choice for gen Z in America. I think
that's that's clear at this point. And if you look
at TikTok, there's a lot of pro Hamas stuff all
over the place, and particularly sympathy for you know, place
didn't cause Hamas all the rest of it. Well, what
you're now seeing are people who have started to look

(00:43):
for rationalizations of what Hamas has done. And this this
is now going viral. The bin Laden letter. He wrote
it a year after the September eleventh attacks, and it
was circulating among jihadists online and including in the UK,
where I believe the Guardian published it. And now the

(01:03):
Guardian has pulled it down as I'm speaking to you,
and they're saying they're redirectoring people from the letter to
a news story. I'm gonna tell you what's really going
on with that in a second, but just to give
you a sense of it, these are young people, okay,
and they seem to be overwhelmingly America, And I mean
maybe some of them are abroad somewhere, but these are
young people, early twenties, mid twenties, who with all that's

(01:28):
going on, and with these big protests and the DNS,
the little riot outside the DNC last night by Hama sympathizers,
with all that's happening, they're like, you know, bin Laden, Yeah,
he kind of had a point, They're saying in this
listen to some of this play nine. I read Osama
bin Laden's letter to America, and if.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You have read it, let me know if you are
also going through an existential crisis in this very moment,
because in the last twenty minutes, my entire viewpoint on
the entire life I have believed and I have lived
has changed.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
This has left me very disillusioned, and I feel the
same exact way I felt when I was deconstructing Christianity.
I feel a little bit just confused, like I have
entered into another timeline.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
What is this?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
In reading the letter, I could only think of this tweet.
But I saw the other day under Setner colonialism, any
kind of resistance is branded as terrorists because the only
acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
The way this letter is going viral right now is
giving me the greatest sense of relief. If you're Muslim
and you've lived in the US since nine to eleven,
you know more truth than the typical citizen. Now it's
all coming to light because of Palestine.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Reading this letter, it becomes apparent to me that the
actions of nine to eleven and those acts committed against
the USA and its people were all just the build
up of our government failing other nations.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let me tell you, I joined the CIA because of
the nine to eleven attacks and Osama, bin Lauden and
al Kaya. Okay, so it was something that had a
major shift in the not just trajectory of my life,
but of course of America and of the world. But
for me, this does bring back very specific memories and

(03:11):
does feel quite personal. Bin Laden was an Islamic supremacist
and a psychopath. Okay, part of what they're not talking
about in this letter, because there's they're saying, oh bin Laden,
and you'll hear this from people. He just was opposed
to US bases in the Middle East and the treatment
of the Palestinians, and you know, cites a few other things.

(03:33):
Oh no, but he also cites, you know, homosexuality, He
cites the decadence of the West. He cites a whole
bunch of things that they won't talk about as reasons
for why we need to be attacked and destroyed. But
if you really want to get a sense as to why,
is bin Ladenism, which is just another version. He's just

(03:55):
one leader within the militant Islamic framework, right, I mean
he's just you go you look at oh who is
i'manel Zwakari. I'manel Zwahari. His number two was a Muslim
Brotherhood leader, Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas lots of connections there.
You start to see all these different entities and organizations.
They are Islamic supremacist entities, meaning that there are only

(04:16):
two kinds of society. There is the land of Islam,
the dahal Islam, and the land of war, the Dar
al Harb, meaning you can do whatever you want to
do because they're the bad guys, they're the infidels. So
this people I think I've forgotten and this younger generation,
I mean a lot of you listening to this are veterans,
and you know you saw the evil in Iraq and Afghanistan.

(04:39):
Of the Islamic supremacists. You saw what militant islam jihadism.
It's it's a viciousness with no end. It's a death
cult like Amas, like Amas. You see, this all actually
ties together. And this is why wait Hamas is a
a resistance organization, right and it's it's different than al Qaida.

(04:59):
It's really not. It's not. And that's why all of
a sudden, the people who like Jamas are saying, maybe
bin Laden had a point. Under bin Laden's framework, first
of all, he just if you read the whole letter,
and if you read if you read Jihadis writing in general,
they absolutely hate Jews. They they the most vile and

(05:21):
severe and extreme anti semitism imaginable. I mean anti Semitism
sounds like too gentle of a term. Islamic supremacists hate Jews,
all of them, all of them. They have been trained
to do so. They think it is central to their theology.
And they will cite Hadith, they will cite their own

(05:43):
version of scripture in support of this. And that is
true across the board. It's true of Isis, it's true
of al Kaida in Iraq, it's true of Boko Haram,
it's true of Hamas, it's true of Hesbellah. Name me
a group al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, al Shabab
in Somalia. Find me a terrorist organization that is jihadist,

(06:05):
and I will show you people who hate the Jews,
even if on the other side of the world, Moro
Islamic Liberation Front, you know, go over to the Philippines,
go over to some of the jihadist entities that are
a little more off the radar, they hate Jews too.
Why is that, Oh, because of Palestine, you see, because
of Palastine. They're all trained to care so much about
this very small piece of land. There's a lot of

(06:25):
other things that they could be focused on, but now
they're all told you know, whether it's terrorists in terrorists
in Indonesia, very upset about what's going on in Palestine.
They're all told this. They all believe this. But if
you look at what bin Laden's belief system actually is
for the people saying, oh, he just doesn't want military
basis off the US in the land of the Two
Holy Cities, idiocy, It is idiocy all over the place.

(06:49):
He justifies the attack on anyone in any Western society
at any level, any age, any involvement. Meaning you're upset
about what's going on with the Palestinians, Nuca City. If
you can, you get your hands on a nuclear weapon,
destroy New York, destroy London, kill everybody, justify it. And
you say, well, whole honesty, how could that be just

(07:10):
I mean, that's whoa, that's oppression of the Palestinians, so
much historical oppression of the Palestinians. There is no outer
limit to this because it is a death cult. And
once you start to understand that mentality, once you start
to see what they really believe, you recognize you go,
oh my god, how do how do we deal with
these people? Well, the way the IDF is dealing with

(07:31):
them now, which is hunt them down and kill them
or put them in incarceration for life. That's it. People
who are true believers in Hamas, those are your options,
or else they're going to come and kill you again
because it is central to their identity. I mean, sure,
you could talk about deradicalization, and I trust me, I've
I was familiar with some of the deradicalization programs that
various governments have. They are overwhelmingly failures. But you can

(07:56):
try that, but it's generally not going to work, and
in the meantime you risk another attack like what we've
just seen. But think about this. You have young people today,
this is going viral. It's all over the place. You
have young people today who are finding what they think
is truth and expressing solidarity with Osama bin Laden. And

(08:18):
it all lines up because what have I been saying
on this show for weeks now, You have seen Hamas
has shown beyond a doubt that it is morally on
the same plane that it is equivalent to al Qaeda.
Ices go down the list. It's no different, it's no different.

(08:38):
It is soaked in hatred of the Jews, soaked in
hatred of the West, in fact built on a foundation
of those hatreds, and ultimately is one of the most
toxic mentalities that exists in any society at any time
in history, which is a constant loop of victimization that
can be used to justify anything. And you see this,

(09:01):
what you have is the Palestinians are held up by
the Islamic world. There's the ultimate victims, more victimized than
any other people in history, more victimized than the Jews,
which would seem completely insane to anybody who has even
the faintest knowledge of twentieth century history and the Second
World War. But oh, that's right, you know, Hamost denize
all that. That's also a part of the hottest ideology

(09:26):
is we're sitting here saying, oh, bin Laden had a point.
Yeah they didn't. Of course they deny the Holocaust. Of
course they deny the oppression against the Jewish people because
they have to be the Palestinians, have to be the
ultimate victims. And therefore any insufficiency in any Muslim society
anywhere in the world, or that any individual Muslim may feel,

(09:47):
or any leftist here in America, some blue haired white
kid who feels like, you know, oh I'm not you know,
I don't have a cause. I'm going to be the
one who links up arms with the Palestinian causts because
they're the ultimate victims. And instead of looking inward and
thinking what am I doing in my life, what am
I doing in my society, or what is my society
really about? That is a failure. It's oh, I just

(10:08):
care about this. I care so much about this issue.
Half a million people died in the Syrian Civil War,
Muslim world was like, yeah, let them fight it out.
One hundred thousand children have died in the Many War
civil war with the Huthis. As long as it's Muslims
killing other Muslims. The Islamic world feels very differently about this,
as in it's generally indifferent, generally indifferent. But if Jews

(10:33):
want to live in peace in Israel, no, no, somehow,
that's always a negotiation that has to Why is that
a negotiation? I think fortunately the voices of sanity here
in the West recognize that there can be no negotiation
with these barbarians. I've seen what their negotiations end up with,
and look like many of you who have served overseas
know exactly what I'm talking about. It is a death

(10:56):
cult and they will destroy as many lives as they
possibly can in the pursuit of a goal that they
will never attain because they have been brainwashed into thinking
that even as they are taking life from innocence, they
are the victims history, even if nothing has happened to them.
Oh my gosh, don't you realize. Don't you realize what
happened to the Muslim people who lived here? One hundred

(11:18):
years ago, five hundred years ago, a thousand years ago.
It's never ending. It never ends. And that's why these
people who are saying bin Laden had some good ideas well.
He has some good ideas. If you want to just
completely surrender Western civilization, basic human freedom and dignity, if
you want the end of the entire liberal canon, and

(11:40):
I mean liberal as in small level, as in people
having liberty and people having dignity, you better just submit
right now. You better bend the knee. Then bin Laden
would be fine with you, and you better, of course
convert or pay the jizia, which is the special tax
for the second class citizens who are effectively treated like
cows to be milked. But that's a whole other part
of Islamic history that you won't really learn about it
in school. I wonder why that is dimitude, the second

(12:05):
class citizen status where if you don't actually pay the
special tax, which could be crippling depending on the society
we're talking about, you could be killed. That's the version
of living peaceably in these societies historically. But again, I
can't go over all the history today, but I just
wanted to give you some sense as to why It
is completely insane and deeply immoral, but shows you really

(12:27):
what we're dealing with here. Who is on the left
and what do they believe. They like hamas and they're
kind of open to the whole al Qaeda thing too,
some interesting ideas. That's what they are saying, and make
note of it.