Short Take: Bin Laden was a ShitLib
On the Limits of Cross Cultural Understanding
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So this is happening... Every college girl and basic left winger is suddenly discovering:
Bin Laden was a SHITLIB
Just like them!
I'm not even trying to be derogatory, that's the only term for it.
He was a crazy educated guy, historic figure, but there's this phenomenon where if you aren't from a culture or don't speak a language too well, you take a alot of the basic stuff about it, the simplifications and hyperboles, 110% seriously.
Think of reading about 19th century European gentlemen dueling, or a forlorn girl out of a Victorian Gothic novel committing suicide... Now think of Samurai dueling, or Noble Japanese maiden committing suicide when her betrothed doesn't return.
Unless you're Japanese you're going to have way subtler opinions and understandings of the Europeans than the Samurai... despite it being the exact same phenomenon. No matter what the samurai or the Japanese girl are going to be inherently mysterious, and kind of beautiful/terrifying...
whereas you're going basically understand what makes a Upper-middle-class Euro stand in the face of a pistol or sabre... or understand, and be able to judge, The European noblewoman's choice as opposed to marrying down, or the convent, or the brothel... Because you understand that culture and world more... you can just be more critical, whereas even an educated person just has to accept the conceits of myths, stories, and analysis when the culture is alien to them.
Thus why some things never translate outside their native culture, and conversely why other things become crazy smash hits Only in the Foreign market. (like Celine Dion in the Global South, or Steven Seagal in Russia)
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The thing is Bin Laden had this for 90s discount Noam Chomsky/College-Bro geopolitical Analysis... And its actually hilarious how 110% earnestly he takes it, because in every social circle he's ever been in he was the only one who understood all of it.
it is as if He was a Hardcore fanatical Marxist who's read Das Captial 10 times... but its actually Just Howard Zinn and Michael Moore Documentaries.
There is not a person who’s ever lived who ever believed the things your average middle-class NGO worker/DNC volunteer/College socialist believes, as fervently or has thought through the implications as seriously as Osama Bin Laden.
Seriously his letter to the Ameircan people is him restrained. Go read the back issues of Inspire Magazine, Al Qaeda's English language publication... He'll just straight up cite Noam Chomsky and say Jihad is necessary to stop America from killing the Earth with Climate Change.
Sure he was also a Islamist literalist who believed in Sharia and had been influenced by the history of Arab Nationalism and its interaction with international socialism during the cold war...
But basically whenever mainline US progressive-socialist analysis told him anything factual, or supplied an analysis that wasn't obviously contrary to Islam he believed it like the Gospel, studied it like a Military officer studies Clausewitz... And then he applied it.
Every contradictory or hyperbolic thing that western progressive critics of capitalism or US foreign policy says they believe, and the people who write mass market books put out there... He took as axiomatic deep insight into his enemy, and spent years thinking through the implications.
Again, in Inspire #1 his essay focuses on why Jihad is existentially necessary because of Global warming... He saw Al Gore's movie, and he understood that to stop the world from ending by 2014... drastic means were necessary.
In a way its humbling... no matter how much you read of another culture, you can never really know it unless you actually experience living it... and even then, only what you've lived, and maybe not even fully that.
But this is why I don't mean "Bin Laden was a shitlib" in a derogatory way. What Republicans mean when they say ShitLib, someone who just credulously accepts left-wing talking points with no alternative analysis, someone who 100% believes what's written in books by "Journalists"... That's Bin Laden. He was the archetype of this. He was the ultimate shitlib.
And, as far as the important stuff... it wasn't too misleading. Nothing he did was delusional or completely missing the point, or at least that wasn't the part that you could accuse of delusion.
But seriously go look it up… its hilarious what he'll say and the words he'll chose to say it.
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bin Laden was(is?) a CIA creation. Any writings attributed to him passed through a CIA narrative control process. And a great many of his CIA handlers subscribe to ShitLib beliefs and values.
The Bush crime family dynasty is the most treasonist in US history, far surpassing Benedict Arnold. From patriarch Prescott Bush actions as "Hitler's Banker" until his bank was seized by feds in 1943 for trading with the enemy, to Prescott Bush's association with Dulles to recover his German war partner's blood-stained loot after the war as he established the CIA. Who brought son George HW Bush on as a young operative being groomed, who was Ft Worth CIA station asset on scene when JFK's head was blown away, who worked for Kissinger to ditch Taiwan in favor of the CCP as UN Ambassador. Who became the first US Ambassador in Beijing at the same time Kissinger helped Klaus Schwab establish the WEF, establishing a pact between the Fascists and Marxists (as Hitler and Stalin tried) to gradually eliminate selfish and dangerous western liberal capitalist freedom from the world. Who declared a New World Order was needed to save all humanity aligning Fascist and Marxist powers as he watched the CCP brutally crush the Tiananmen Square freedom movement, rewarding the CCP with MFN trade partner status, and accelerated the deindustrialization of the US to industrialize China. Who destabilized the Middle East, groomed bogey men like bin Laden. Who set a stable of ambitious sons into politics groomed to ascend as a permanent ruling dynasty. George W Bush selected to continue the destruction of the US, who used the CIA's groomed asset bin Laden as a scapegoat to attack the US and usher in the surveillance security police state targeting domestic political opposition, consolidated religious institutions under government surveillance and control, establishing a biosecurity state that were all necessary to produce the medical tyranny system we've experienced since 2020 that's easily repurposed for Climate/energy (health emergency), gun control (health emergency) propaganda and censorship, courts depriving citizens of constitutional rights, that have identified White Nationalists (whites who love their nation and constitution) as the biggest national security threat (not radicalized Islamists, actual Fascists or Marxists). Bush/Cheney crime family syndicates align with ShitLib Clinton/Obama/Biden crime family syndicates to this day against MAGA for that reason.
bin Laden was/is a ShitLib. And Fascist/Marxist. A CIA Bush/Dulles/Rockefeller/Carnegie/Morgan/Clinton/Windsor/Etc of horribles creation. A tool. To destroy western civilization as we know it. Used by much more power and evil people than him. Who hate individual liberty and freedom. Yet claim to be protectors of it.
Maybe you've encountered the term before, but I don't think you understand how deep the concept of taqiyya goes in Islam. It's more than just Muslims feigning conversions to avoid being killed. Here in the west, we have a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In Islam, the secret intentions of one's heart justifies almost any action. Muslim clerics have no qualms about lying even to their own followers if they believe doing so will advance the cause of Islam. Take bin Laden's professions of belief in climate change and any other leftist causes with a massive grain of salt. The things he said to win the approval of western liberals do not align with what he taught jihadis. His only goal was to subject the entire world to Sharia whether by violence, honest persuasion, or deception.