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Flirtation With Evil Will Not End Well for Leftists
American Greatness ^ | 19 Nov 2023 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 11/19/2023 9:58:09 AM PST by Rummyfan

Has the TikTok Left just jumped the shark?

Well, yes. Imagine seizing on Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to the American People” as a revelation to justify your wounded adolescent narcissism and historical ignorance? This past week, a bunch of videos from the Chinese owned data-hoovering and propaganda-peddling app took the meme-world by storm by showering some love on the defunct Islamic terrorist and kicking America in the process. Quoth one fragile female as she brushed her teeth: “Trying to go back to life as normal after reading Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ and realizing everything we learned about the Middle East, 9/11, and ‘terrorism’ was a lie.” Another client of this new experiment in juvenile mind control bleated that the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks taught her that America was a “plague on the entire world.”

Those videos were watched by tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. Millions—millions—have searched for bin Laden’s paean to Jew-hatred, radical Islamic theocracy, and contempt for America. The Guardian newspaper, which had published a transcript of Osama’s letter back in 2002 when it first appeared, took it down because, an editorial note explains, it “had been widely shared on social media without the full context.” Ah, “context.” Patient readers can still avail themselves of the 4,000-word lunatic effusion here. I offer two brief snippets, chosen more or less at random (slice him where you will, as Bertie Wooster observed, a hellhound is still a hellhound), just to give readers a little taste of the surreal world we’re talking about...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: leftists; letter2americanppl; osamabinladen; tiktok

1 posted on 11/19/2023 9:58:09 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The flirtation with evil may not end well for Leftists, but it’s looking like it won’t end so peachy keen for the rest of us either.


2 posted on 11/19/2023 10:05:49 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Rummyfan

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3 posted on 11/19/2023 10:11:05 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Rummyfan

Having read the 4-page ‘letter’, I paused over it and came to three observations:

1. I don’t think bin Laden himself wrote the piece. Text and word choices....it’s an English-speaker. Unless he had a word-smith English secretary around...he’s not the original creator of the text.

2. There’s a comment about halfway into the letter where he wants non-Muslims to respect the Quran and Sharia Law...even in non-Muslim lands. I found it an odd statement where tens of thousands of Muslims leave their ‘homelands’ each year over safety or welfare.

3. Finally, I seem to be wondering now if the idiots who got all hyped-up...will suddenly re-discover Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and feel enthusiasm for that BS.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 10:24:02 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: rdcbn1

Flirtation? More like full on prolonged Intercourse.


5 posted on 11/19/2023 10:29:34 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78
That's what I was thinking. This is no flirtation. This is a hardcore alignment with evil.

A contract has been signed, so to speak.

Everything changed on October 7th. The world is in a new phase and there's no going back.

6 posted on 11/19/2023 10:52:34 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: pepsionice

“he’s not the original creator of the text.”

If you keep looking down that rabbit hole you will go places folks around here do not want you to go....

;-)


7 posted on 11/19/2023 10:56:43 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Rummyfan

LOL. Everything ends well for them.


8 posted on 11/19/2023 11:10:57 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: pepsionice

Bin Laden was educated in England.


9 posted on 11/19/2023 11:18:19 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Rummyfan

What every pinhead and commie trash will do is cherry pick the letter and come back saying that it was all the fault of the US actions.

No, read the entire damned thing. He insisted on Sharia law and that the entire world must convert to Islam. Plus, he condemned the degeneracy. On that last point, I agree.

But, agreeing with one point while the rest is the ravings of a psychopath is stupid.
Which, BTWay, is typical of the pinheads, et al.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 12:03:19 PM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: All

Flirtation?

They have sold or given their hearts and souls completely to evil.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 2:29:21 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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