GOP lawmakers are renewing their call for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok after Usama bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America" went viral on social media and received sympathy from hundreds of young users. The letter, published by The Guardian but taken offline Wednesday, blamed U.S. policies for the Sept. 11 attacks. "We should ban it," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Sean Hannity Thursday. "It tracks everything you do on your phone. It tracks everywhere you go, every text message you send, every email you write, and...

TikTok has been home to young people making complete fools of themselves since its inception — but it just got a whole lot worse. A new trend has emerged on the platform after some of its users discovered a letter written by Osama bin Laden after 9/11 in which he explains why the attacks were carried out. In the letter, bin Laden claims he attacked us because we attacked them first. He also makes clear how anti-Semitic he is, taking a moment in the letter to bring attention to “the...

A furious group representing scores of 9/11 families says it is “appalling” that young TikTok users are sharing Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and showing “sympathy” for the terror leader. “No Americans should ever not know Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who helped mastermind the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on Sept. 11, 2001,” seethed Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United — an organization that represents more than 10,000 relatives of the slain victims, survivors and those sickened or injured in the terror attacks —...

9/11 Families United is condemning a growing number of TikTok users in the United States praising ideals outlined in Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America," calling it "pro-terrorist propaganda" and asking users to "educate themselves." "No American should ever not know Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who helped mastermind the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on September 11, 2001,” Terry Strada, national chairwoman of 9/11 Families United, said in a statement on Friday. “These Americans were our husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. It is...

AFP — British newspaper The Guardian has removed from its website a 21-year-old message written by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, after it was shared several million times on social media. Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” began being shared on TikTok on Tuesday, sparking a fierce debate about US backing for Israel in its current war against Hamas. Bin Laden was the mastermind of the September 11 attacks 22 years ago that killed nearly 3,000 people by crashing passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the...

As part of the emerging genocidal war against Israel, Tik Tok is unleashing an anti-American and anti-Semitic meme with regard to Bin Laden’s letter to America. Young Americans are posting pensive reconsiderations of their own convictions after reading Bin Laden’s childish screed. It is important to create rhetorical responses for overcoming the relentless assaults on human freedom originating in this ongoing war against the “two Satans” of America and Israel. In 2010, I wrote an article now suppressed by Google entitled: “Top Ten Things America has Done for Muslims.” It...

Young Americans have been going viral on the Chinese app TikTok sympathizing with Osama bin Laden and recirculating his 2002 letter in which the terrorist leader tries to justify the mass murder of Americans on September 11, 2001. Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral on China’s TikTok this week among a new generation whose members were either born after September 11, 2001, or were not old enough to remember the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Amid the public debate on the Israel-Hamas war, young people are defending bin...

A 2002 letter written by Osama bin Laden attempting to justify the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks he masterminded has been spreading on TikTok, and some users are drawing connections between the letter and the Israel-Hamas war. The “Letter to America” went viral after TikTok users began linking to a copy that was translated and published by The Guardian in November 2002. The left-wing British newspaper has since removed the letter because the page in question now says, “the text was had been widely shared on social media without the full...

A new viral trend on China-owned social media platform TikTok includes largely younger people praising and agreeing with notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden‘s “Letter to America.” The letter, which is filled with anti-Western and anti-Semitic language, is a justification from bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, which killed roughly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. “Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous ‘Letter to America,’ in which he explained why...

Young Americans are embracing and promoting Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America" – a document from 2002 that attempts to justify the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Osama bin Laden's letter to U.S. citizens was released just over a year after the 9/11 terror attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans. The document from the al Qaeda leader reveals bin Laden's grievances toward Western nations' involvement in the Middle East. The radical Islamist also lambastes the United States for supporting the state of Israel. The al Qaeda...