Osama Bin Laden

Osama Bin Laden's Opinions

God Is God on our side in war? Agree ...we are fulfilling a duty which God, Praise and Glory be to Him, decreed for us. We look upon those heroes, those men who undertook to kill the American occupiers in Riyadh and Khobar (Dhahran). The God Said Pitch   Edit Pitches 31 Mar 1997    Source Is God just? Agree All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him. The Awesome God Pitch   Edit Pitches 08 Sep 2007    Source Does God exist? Agree All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth in justice, and created man as a favor and grace for Him. ... and from His law is retaliation in kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all praise is due to Allah, who awakened His slaves' desire for the Garden, and all of them will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever disobeys Him will have refused. The Awesome God Pitch   Edit Pitches 08 Sep 2007    Source Terrorism Is it legitimate for the US to label their enemies "terrorists"? Disagree The US today as a result of the arrogant atmosphere has set a double standard, calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist. It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us based not on what God has revealed and wants us to agree on all these. If we refuse to do so, it will say you are terrorists. ... The US does not consider it a terrorist act to throw atomic bombs [killing] women, children and elderly people [...] in Japan. The Family Pitch   The God Said Pitch   The Hypocrisy Pitch   Edit Pitches 31 Mar 1997    Source Did the US Government play a part in the 9/11 attacks? Disagree And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within twenty minutes, before Bush and his administration notice. Edit Pitches 02 Nov 2004    Source Science Is there life after death? Agree To us, the life hereafter is really important, not this life. Edit Pitches 05 Aug 1999    Source Are recent climatic changes consistent with the AGW hypothesis? Agree The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent. Edit Pitches 29 Jan 2010    Source

Ethics Is it acceptable to target (i.e. kill) civilians in war? Agree And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor [i.e. the United States] in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children. The Family Pitch   Edit Pitches 01 Nov 2004    Source Are our enemies innately evil? Agree I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy. ...oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. ... Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us. Edit Pitches 01 Nov 2004    Source Psychology Is revenge OK? Agree And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor [i.e. the United States] in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children. The Family Pitch   Edit Pitches 01 Nov 2004    Source Is it worthwhile to die for your beliefs? Agree The happy [man] is the one that God has chosen to be a martyr. The Martyr Pitch   Edit Pitches 15 Jul 2007    Source Democracy Is capitalism good? Disagree As you liberated yourselves before from the slavery of monks, kings, and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from the deception, shackles and attrition of the capitalist system. If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the end, it is a system harsher and fiercer than your systems in the Middle Ages. The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of "globalization" in order to protect democracy. The Socialist Pitch   Edit Pitches 07 Sep 2007    Source Is democracy the best form of government? Disagree It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interest of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations. ... I invite you to embrace Islam. The Socialist Pitch   Edit Pitches 08 Sep 2007    Source

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