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Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden
CNN ^ | Thu November 16, 2023 | By Donie O'Sullivan, Catherine Thorbecke and Allison Gordon

Posted on 11/16/2023 3:18:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, for a two-decade-old letter he wrote critiquing the United States, including its government and support of Israel.

The letter, which attempts to justify the targeting and killing of American civilians, was first published in 2002. It began to recirculate this week on the social media platform, and videos on the topic had garnered at least 14 million views by Thursday. Many of the videos, which supported some of Bin Laden’s assertions and urged other users to read the letter, were shared in the wider context of criticism of American support for Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas.

TikTok said on Thursday that videos promoting the letter violate its rules against “supporting any form of terrorism.” The company said the number of videos promoting the letter were “small” and added “reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate.”

TikTok declined to provide specific data to support this assertion.

TikTok is hugely popular with young Americans, with a majority of Americans under 30 using the app at least once a week, according to a KFF survey. Many of TikTok’s users were born after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks when 19 men hijacked commercial airliners, intentionally crashed the planes, and killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, DC, and rural Pennsylvania. The attack was orchestrated by Bin Laden, the former leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group who was killed in a US special forces raid in 2011.

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KEYWORDS: bots; domesticenemies; socialmedia; tiktok
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1 posted on 11/16/2023 3:18:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ask them again after the Mohammedans have sawed off their heads.

2 posted on 11/16/2023 3:20:52 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just another example of why it is absolutely outrageously stupid for those of Jewish heritage to promote a liberal agenda in the universities and everywhere else in society. This is what it yields. It’s astounding.


3 posted on 11/16/2023 3:21:56 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: MinorityRepublican

These young people have been brain washed by their communist teachers and social media to believe that America and Israel are evil..what do you expect, these same kids have been taught to believe that a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy no wonder they are screwed up in the head


4 posted on 11/16/2023 3:25:33 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MinorityRepublican
Some young Americans idiots on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden
5 posted on 11/16/2023 3:26:21 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: MinorityRepublican

skulls of mush which someday may be removed from their bodies


6 posted on 11/16/2023 3:29:10 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Keep it up, China. At least the older folks know what China is doing to our youth via TikTok. TOO BAD OUR YOUTH DON’T KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN CHINESE LAB RATS.


7 posted on 11/16/2023 3:32:45 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just another reason to deny your children a smartphone.


8 posted on 11/16/2023 3:42:42 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Young people like celebrities (not just decent ones).

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=583150690&q=rolling+stone+cover+with+Tsarnaev&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_we6K2cmCAxUav4kEHbvvAJQQ0pQJegQI


9 posted on 11/16/2023 3:43:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well I don’t sympathize with them.


10 posted on 11/16/2023 3:44:23 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

An earlier generation sympathized with Che Guerava. He ended up dead too.


11 posted on 11/16/2023 3:53:40 PM PST by Redcitizen
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We have people in America sympathizing with Islamic terror organizations and even Putin’s border-violator Russia and their hideous FSB.
But in a way thats’s logic, since Russia is allied to the Islamic State of Iran, and has still not condemned Hamas sadistic actions in Israel.
Russia collaborating with the most extreme Islamic fundamentalists, is nothing new...


12 posted on 11/16/2023 4:01:18 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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People say nonsense online to get a reaction from people , though I don’t doubt some people do support Osama.


13 posted on 11/16/2023 4:03:02 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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14 posted on 11/16/2023 4:04:44 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: escapefromboston
People say nonsense online to get a reaction from people , though I don’t doubt some people do support Osama.

This isn't an act. They see Israel as an occupying force and that Hamas was just in using terrorism to attack Israel.

15 posted on 11/16/2023 4:05:24 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Some of these TikTok scum better sleep with one eye open. Mossad doesn’t take too kindly to Israel hating, Al Qaeda supporting retards who couldn’t find the U.S on a map let alone Israel.


16 posted on 11/16/2023 4:05:44 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I watched a few seconds of one of the “influencers” opine favorably about the letter, then she mentioned that she had “deconstructed” Christianity.


17 posted on 11/16/2023 4:06:29 PM PST by odawg
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To: MinorityRepublican

And some Americans in Congress sympathize with Hamas


18 posted on 11/16/2023 4:07:08 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Most of them can’t find Israel on a map.


19 posted on 11/16/2023 4:08:05 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden,

Probably CNN watchers. See Tagline.

20 posted on 11/16/2023 4:29:31 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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