[lbo-talk] Bin Laden's message to the left?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 17 11:23:27 PDT 2004


Lance Murdoch wrote:


>On FreeRepublic
>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118482/posts they have
>accused Bin Laden of beginning to sound like Moveon.org (or vice
>versa) in his truce statement. Well of course they're crazy but it
>is interesting how Bin Laden seems to be sending a message to the
>anti-war forces in Europe, i.e. the left. His rhetoric has shifted
>from talking about how Allah holds the sky up with invisible pillars
>and gives Muslims power, to how they desire peace but how some
>people are profiting from this (like Halliburton, which he explicity
>mentions), as well as a plea that "the honest people, intellectuals,
>activists and traders to form a permanent committee to raise
>people's awareness for the justice of our causes – on top of
>which comes Palestine."

As my mother-in-law said shortly after 9/11, "can we just find out what they want and give it to them?"

Doug



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