Name: Using Religion As A Tool | Bin Laden’s Hard Drive
Uploaded: 2020-11-01T18:26:09.000Z
Duration: 5 min 2 s
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Bin Laden without reference to his religious beliefs.

This was a guy who, when he was a teenager,

was praying seven times a day, fasting twice a week.

On the other hand, he was also a mass murderer.

Given how religious Bin Laden saw himself,

it's not a surprise there's a lot of religious material

How great is our last panel, [inaudible]..

He would refer to sayings of the prophet Muhammad

or any kind of traditional religious training.

And so we have someone who's a non-specialist making

because he actually starts by acknowledging that Islam

prohibits the killing of noncombatants in warfare,

but then goes on to explain, in his mind,

why the political situation that we are living in

What he did was to use political justifications

MAN: This homemade video found on the hard drives

begins, as many of these al-Qaeda videos do,

by quoting a religious verse with chanting in tandem,

We hit the United States, and we scared them.

Then inevitably, Bin Laden himself speaks,

And I think it's a really telling piece of propaganda,

It's a means to control people, to make people do

And the ends justify the means, like any psychopath

I mean, at one point, he actually told his commanders,

The same thing-- it's people using religion

a criminal define the religion of 1.8 billion people.

We would never take the word of the KKK to define Christianity.

called for a tablespoon of sugar in the recipe,

and extremists would read that and put a cup of sugar

so taking what the Quran says and taking it to its extreme.

He read in the Quran, you need a tablespoon of sugar.

Bin Laden's view of his religion and violence

and he was willing to sacrifice even those closest to him

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Using Religion As A Tool | Bin Laden’s Hard Drive

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