00:00:17.000By saying this and many things like it, President Bush essentially defanged the entire Western movement against our actual enemies.
00:00:24.000Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to America in 2002, and essentially the letter can be broken down into two parts the excuse making and the real reason.
00:00:32.000The excuse making is about how Muslims everywhere are victims of America.
00:00:39.000It is a victim mentality unsupportable by the evidence.
00:00:43.000The real reason Osama bin Laden did this is because he was a Muslim fundamentalist who believes that everyone in the world ought to convert to Islam.
00:00:53.000In his letter to America, he wrote the following Why are we fighting and opposing you?
00:00:58.000Under your supervision, consent, and orders, the governments of our countries, which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis.0.98
00:01:04.000These governments, he's talking about Muslim governments, give us a taste of humiliation and place us in a large prison of fear and subdual.0.93
00:01:11.000These governments have surrendered to the Jews and had in them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.0.99
00:01:23.000You besiege our sanctities to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.1.00
00:01:29.000You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day.1.00
00:01:33.000Yet when 3,000 of your people die, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.0.93
00:01:37.000Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?
00:01:44.000So that's part one, the excuse making.
00:01:47.000As we'll get to, this has become quite popular among a large percentage of Americans.
00:01:51.000Then there's the actual reason that Osama bin Laden did this.
00:01:58.000The first thing we are calling you to is Islam, the religion of the unification of God, of freedom from associating partners with him and rejection of this, of complete love of him, the exalted, of complete submission to his laws.0.84
00:02:10.000And of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories, and religions which contradict with the religion he sent down to his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
00:02:17.000Islam is the religion of all the prophets and makes no distinction between them, peace be upon them all.0.99
00:02:22.000It is saddening to tell you you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.1.00
00:02:26.000You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Sharia of Allah and its constitution and laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire.
00:02:34.000You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms absolute authority to the Lord and your Creator.0.69
00:02:40.000You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you.
00:02:42.000How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they're most in need of, knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?0.96
00:02:54.000In other words, Islam as governing philosophy.0.94
00:03:03.000He knew that the West did not have the stones to actually stand up on its hind legs and say that we have a civilization worth preserving and defending, that eventually we would tire.1.00
00:03:20.000He said, First of all, I would like to say that your war with us is the longest war in your history and the most expensive for you financially.
00:03:26.000As for us, we see it as being only halfway finished.
00:03:29.000If you were to ask our wise thinkers, they would tell you there is no way to win it because the indications are against it.
00:03:33.000How will you win a war whose leaders are pessimistic and whose soldiers are committing suicide?
00:03:37.000If fear enters the hearts of men, winning the war becomes impossible.
00:03:40.000How will you win a war whose cost is like a hurricane blowing violently at your economy and weakening your dollar?0.89
00:03:47.000So again, it was a dual purpose approach for Osama bin Laden.0.87
00:03:51.000Because everybody needed to embrace Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
00:03:57.000And then the excuse making, which is that somehow he, a very, very, very wealthy Saudi citizen originally, was somehow a victim of the United States government and the West in general.
00:04:09.000Here he was in 1997, talking about the supposed predations of the US government.
00:04:16.000The US government has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous, and criminal.
00:04:21.000Through its support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
00:04:25.000And we believe the US is directly responsible for those killed in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq.
00:04:31.000Due to its subordination to the Jews, the arrogance of the United States regime has reached the point that they occupied Arabia, the holiest place of the Muslims, who are more than a billion people in the world today.
00:04:44.000For this and other acts of aggression and injustice, we have declared jihad against the US.
00:04:51.000Now, at this point, we should point out that all of this is nonsense.
00:04:55.000The United States had, in the decades leading up to 9 11, fought alongside the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to push out the USSR and then withdrawn and the Taliban took over.
00:05:05.000The United States had intervened in the 90s in the Bosnian Civil War to stop the Bosniak slaughter of Muslims.
00:05:11.000The United States did the same thing in Kosovo to protect the Muslim Albanian population.
00:05:15.000The United States had joined with Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to thwart Saddam Hussein, a supposed secularist, from taking over Kuwait in the First Gulf War.
00:05:24.000The United States had, over the course of the 1990s, Pressed and forced Israel into a wide variety of territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority and its arch terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.
00:05:34.000The United States in the 1980s had withdrawn from Lebanon completely after the murder of Marines by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:05:40.000If anything, American appeasement of Muslims in the Middle East and a desire to work alongside some Muslim state actors led Osama bin Laden to his thesis that America was weak.0.89
00:05:51.000After 9 11, many Muslims in the Middle East knew all this and celebrated.0.84
00:05:55.000September 12, 2001, here's NBC showing footage of the reaction. to 9-11 in the Gaza Strip.
00:06:02.000That we're going to show you from the West Bank.
00:06:05.000These are Palestinian celebrations in the wake of Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States.
00:06:11.000Apparently, Palestinians took to the street chanting, God is great.
00:06:15.000People were throwing candy, distributing candy to passers-by.
00:06:19.000The U.S. government, obviously, has become increasingly unpopular, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, because Palestinians feel that the U.S. government has sided with Israel.
00:06:34.000One man, Nawal Abdel Fattah, wearing a long black dress, threw sweets in the air saying, Actually, that's a woman, pardon me, saying she was happy because, quote, America is the head of the snake.
00:06:58.000We'll get some more on this in a moment.
00:06:59.000First, if you run a business, hiring somebody should be about more than finding the right words on a resume.
00:07:04.000If somebody wanted to work on this show and then sent over a 30 second sample demonstrating exactly what they could contribute, that would get my attention.
00:07:10.000They're not simply claiming to be creative or prepared or motivated.
00:07:14.000They've now provided evidence that this is true.
00:07:16.000In any hiring process, evidence is generally preferable to self-described adjectives.
00:07:20.000When you're hiring, it's always helpful to know who really wants the job, but you don't need unusual stunts.
00:08:02.000Just days after September 11, the President of the United States appeared at the Islamic Center of Washington, flanked by members of groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, which would later be an unindicted co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
00:08:17.000And there, he would explain that Islam was a religion of peace.0.88
00:08:23.000These acts and violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.
00:08:33.000And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that.0.55
00:08:38.000The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Quran itself.
00:08:45.000In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil.
00:08:56.000For that, they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.0.96
00:09:04.000The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.1.00
00:09:23.000By saying this, and many things like it, President Bush essentially defanged.
00:09:27.000The entire Western movement against our actual enemies.
00:09:29.000It doesn't mean every Muslim is an enemy of the United States.
00:09:32.000But if you want to make the argument that our enemies hate American freedom, you need to explain why they hated American freedom and what motivated them.0.87
00:09:44.000But instead, President Bush was a believer in a false idea that all human beings all over the planet believe the same kinds of things.
00:09:52.000And we are all at root exactly the same in our orientation toward the world, which is why at the UN General Assembly in 2004, President Bush incorrectly stated that freedom beats in every human heart.
00:10:57.000Ayan Hirsi Ali, who grew up as a Muslim in a Muslim Brotherhood run system in Kenya, Has a piece at Tablet Magazine talking about Muhammad Atta.
00:11:06.000Muhammad Atta was one of the hijackers, one of the more famous hijackers, and he left the last will and testament.
00:11:12.000And that last will and testament did not talk about victimization of Muslims worldwide.
00:11:18.000All it was, according to Ayan Hirsi Ali, was a young man in a German apartment arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come.
00:11:29.000The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the Al Quds Mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where four years later he would meet the men he would die with.
00:11:35.000The document is among his most neglected pieces of evidence from September 11th because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred.
00:11:45.000He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel.
00:11:49.000He was not, in any formal or organizational sense, an Islamist.0.69
00:11:53.000Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.0.84
00:11:59.000She talks about being raised as a Muslim in Kenya.0.95
00:12:01.000Quote, my teachers also introduced me to the greater enemies of Islam, the great Satan being in the United States of America, and the little Satan being Israel, the Jewish state.0.89
00:12:08.000A distinction was made between Israel as a state and Jews, who embodied a type of metaphysical evil.0.81
00:12:12.000The Jew was synonymous with the word Satan.0.99
00:12:14.000Who's behind all evil things and had designated Islam and Muslims as his enemy, and was hell bent on destroying us all.1.00
00:12:20.000In our prayers and in all of our dua is the supplication that God would destroy and eliminate the Jews.0.98
00:12:25.000Ayan Hirsi Ali writes Islam is not an Abrahamic faith that functions anything like Protestant Christianity or Rabbinic Judaism.
00:12:32.000There's no equivalent in Islamic doctrine for such foundational Western concepts as the separation of church and state, secular law, or the idea of individual freedoms and rights, including the freedom to worship freely.
00:12:41.000Rather, Islam is animated by the beliefs that the Muslim world suffered a historical dispossession with the abolition of the caliphate.0.75
00:12:47.000And that this loss must eventually be reversed, including the retaking of all lands that have ever been ruled by Muslims.0.91
00:12:53.000In the temporal sphere, Islam as much resembles totalizing and irredentist political ideologies as it does a religion.0.97
00:12:59.000In the frame in which both ordinary Muslims and their self-appointed political spokesmen see the world, America and the wider West are not just geopolitical rivals.0.93
00:13:07.000They're civilizational obstacles, powers that uphold a secular, liberal, and post-caliphate order that Islamists seek to overcome.0.95
00:13:22.000According to Pew Research polling, in 2002, 23% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans said that Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence.
00:13:34.000That is a rather low percentage, given the facts on the ground across planet Earth.
00:13:39.000In 2004, 42% of Democrats and 56% of Republicans said that Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence.
00:13:49.000Today, only about a quarter of Democrats consistently say that Islam encourages violence.0.94
00:13:55.000Well, about two thirds of Republicans to three quarters say that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.
00:14:02.000This is what 25 years of propaganda has wrought.
00:14:06.000Again, this is not saying that every Muslim is violent or every Muslim believes violent things, but to pretend that Islam, as a political governing philosophy or as practiced across planet Earth, is a moderating and liberating force would be to ignore the facts on the ground.
00:14:20.000What an amazing video you just watched.