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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1852 - A Generation of Bin Laden Fans

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The TikTok generation discovers Osama Bin Laden’s letter to America – and they’re into it; the media label Donald Trump Hitler after another intemperate comment at a rally, then do the same to Elon Musk – even while they downplay the atrocities of Hamas; and pro-Hamas protesters get violent in Washington D.C.   Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj   Ep.1852   - - -    DailyWire+:   Get Your DailyWire+ Black Friday Deals Here: https://bit.ly/3QVgtGy   Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw    - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/ben   Helix - Shop the Helix Black Friday Sale! Get 25% OFF + 2 FREE Pillows with promo code HelixPartner25 at https://helixsleep.com/BEN   PureTalk - Get a FREE Moto-G 5G phone when you switch to PureTalk at https://www.puretalkusa.com/landing/shapiro   Policygenius - Get your free life insurance quote & see how much you could save: http://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO   ZipRecruiter - Try ZipRecruiter for FREE: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/dailywire   Christian Care Ministry - Get a $150 gift card when you join Medi-Share at http://www.medishare.com/Ben    *To receive the $150 gift card Application and all Form Center documents must be completed and First Month's Share must be paid by Nov 30th, 2023 at 9:00 PM EST.    - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:03.2

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0:06.0

Osama bin Laden was evil.

0:08.0

I know this should be rather obvious.

0:09.8

Bin Laden was an arch terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans.

0:13.7

Unfortunately, to an entire generation, raised on the idea that success equals oppression

0:17.8

and failure equals being oppressed, it's not obvious at all that

0:21.4

Osama bin Laden was evil. In fact, he was apparently in a grieved victim with a shockingly

0:26.1

cogent case against the West. That is according to a bevy of new videos trending on TikTok

0:30.1

of TikTok Generation Americans reading Osama bin Laden's letter to America. That letter was

0:35.0

released in November 2002. It essentially makes the same case that

0:38.2

radical Muslims and radical leftists now make in favor of Hamas. The West is evil and aggressive,

0:43.1

and Westerners, including Jews, deserve what they get. It is Franz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre

0:47.8

and Hassan Albana, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, all rolled into one. Here are some of the

0:52.1

reactions of young people reading bin Laden's letter

0:54.6

for the first time. I need everyone to stop what they're doing right now and go read. It's literally

1:00.1

two pages. Go read a letter to America. And please come back here and just let me know what you

1:06.6

think because I feel like I'm going through like an existential crisis right now, and a lot of people are.

1:11.1

So I just need someone else to be feeling this too.

1:14.6

And what exactly is that existential crisis?

1:16.3

The existential crisis is that a lot of these people agree with bin Laden.

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