Young Americans are sympathizing with terrorists — not only the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, but now also the al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked our own soil in 2001. In a sick trend, a handful of users on the video-sharing platform TikTok, a subsidiary of Beijing-based ByteDance, praised al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s anti-American writings as “eye-opening” and “right.”
On Wednesday, the Guardian took down bin Laden’s 2002 “letter to the American people” — a document outlining why Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. on 9/11, killing roughly 3,000 people — after the document went viral on TikTok. The CCP-linked app has become the fourth most popular platform in the United States and is particularly popular among young people.
“Reading this letter,” one user said, “it becomes apparent to me that the actions of 9/11 and those acts committed against the USA and its people were all just the buildup of our government failing other nations.”
“This letter was insanely eye-opening,” the TikToker said.
Another user posted a video of reading the letter with the caption, “he was right.”
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous “Letter to America,” in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and… pic.twitter.com/EwjiGtFEE3
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 16, 2023
The letter went viral 21 years after it was written, as
