One in five young Americans has a positive view of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, according to the latest J.L. Partners/Daily Mail survey.
The survey asked respondents, “How would you describe your view of Osama Bin Laden?”
Across the board, 81 percent say they have an at least somewhat negative view of the famed terrorist behind the September 11 terrorist attacks. Of those, 76 percent have a “completely negative view.” Just eight percent have an at least somewhat positive view, and of those, four percent have a “completely positive” view of Bin Laden. However, those results drastically shift when broken down by age groups, as 20 percent of those between the ages of 18-29 have an at least somewhat positive view of Bin Laden. Of those, eight percent have a “completely” positive view, compared to 52 percent who have an at least somewhat negative view. Further, 17 percent of those 18-29 have a “mix of positive and negative” feelings about the terrorist leader, and another 11 percent said they “don’t know.”
In comparison, 14 percent of those ages 30-49 have an at least somewhat positive attitude toward Bin Laden, who was shot and killed in 2011 by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six, with that figure continually decreasing among older Americans:
NEW: 🇺🇸 Poll of 1,000 U.S. adults in @dailymail, 12/15-12/20
How would you describe your view of Osama Bin Laden? All adults:
Positive: 8%
Mixed: 6%
Negative: 81%
18-29 year olds:
Positive: 20%
Mixed: 17%
Negative: 52%https://t.co/mYRoJ1Z4jR
Story: https://t.co/wGp1X1Wj9G
— J.L. Partners (@JLPartnersPolls) December 27, 2023
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Eight percent of the Gen Z age group said both Bin Laden’s ‘views and actions’ were good, while 23 percent said his views were good but his actions were bad.
Overall, 81 percent of American voters said they had negative views of him, while just under one in ten (eight percent) viewed him positively.
Fourteen percent said the terrorist leader had some ‘some good in terms of either his views, actions or both’ while 70 percent said both his views and actions were bad.
The results show the growing disconnect between the reality of what occurred among those who were born after September 11, 2001, or were too young to remember.
The distressing findings also coincide with young Americans making waves on the Chinese-owned app TikTok, recirculating Bin Laden’s 2002 letter in which he attempted to justify the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which resulted in the death of 2,977 people. Thousands more were injured. Yet, many young TikTokers have asserted the U.S. is, perhaps, just as bad.
“I’m not about to sit here act like [bin Laden]’s just the worst person in the world when America has literally been terrorizing people since the beginning of history,” one TikTok user said, touting the anti-American, revisionist history pushed by the radical left by repeating the lie that “America is literally built on terrorizing people.”
“When what’s his name, fucking, whatever the guy’s name is that discovered America and found the land, he lied,” the user continued.
“Put yourself in their shoes, 3,000 people died on 9/11, compared to the millions that Americans have killed in Palestine,” the young woman added.
And that is just one small example, as others have urged others to read Bin Laden’s letter in a sympathetic way.
“If you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis in this very moment, because in the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed, and I have lived, has changed,” one influencer claimed.
“Well, these people are, of course, massive idiots,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) told Breitbart News when asked about this trend.
“I just came from watching the footage that the Israeli embassy compiled about the October 7th attack. It is horrific,” Gallagher, the chair of the Select Committee on China, said. “You are seeing Hamas kill infants and behead innocent civilians with garden hoes. These images are disturbing and show the true face of evil.”
“So for someone on TikTok to suggest that this is America’s fault, or that bin Laden — who killed thousands of innocent Americans — was right, is absolutely disgusting,” he added.
The results of the survey come to no surprise, however when one considers the anti-America rhetoric the left constantly feeds to young Americans.
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A recent Salon piece, for instance, asserts that individuals such as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) share Osama bin Laden’s radical views, essentially equating him to the 9/11 mastermind:
Worry less about TikTok and Bin Laden — fret more that Mike Johnson shares the terrorist’s view https://t.co/wzeItwwh0p
— Salon (@Salon) November 21, 2023
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That aside, TikTok has since claimed it is working to remove such content.
“Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism,” TikTok said in the statement. “We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform.”
Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism. We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform. The number of videos on TikTok is small and reports of it trending on our… https://t.co/n9Zo7l94r2
— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) November 16, 2023
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