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u/kinkykusco · 68 pointsr/bestof

If you want to invest a few dollars, there is an excellent collection of Osama Bin Ladens writings called Messages to the World - The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. The translations are apparantly excellent (I never went beyond first year Arabic), and a highly regarded scholar of religion, Bruce Lawrence, provides contextual information throughout.

No promises you won't end up on a watch list :-)

I studied Modern Middle Eastern history in College and have a shelf full of books that probably have put me on a list.

u/emonationalist · 9 pointsr/RightwingLGBT

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>Amazon does, however, continue to sell the following works:
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>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto — the manifesto of a movement that murdered more than 100 million people, specifically targeting an entire class of people — the bourgeoisie — for destruction; for sale in many editions from the richest capitalist in the world
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>Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism — a defense of political terrorism
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>Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf  — also available in many editions — which is apparently less threatening to the current world order than my book.
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>The Unabomber’s Manifesto — which does seem to create a moral hazard. Want to get your book published? Start mailing out package bombs. Kill three people and injure 23 others, and your book might also be fit to stock at Amazon.com.
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>Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M. Manifesto — S.C.U.M. being an acronym for Society to Cut Up Men. Solanas published her manifesto in 1967. In 1968, she attempted to murder Andy Warhol.
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>The Anarchist’s Cookbook — corrected and updated to make it extra lethal
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>Osama Bin Laden’s Messages to the World mastermind one of history’s greatest terrorist attacks, and you too might be fit to stock at Amazon.com
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>Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah — apparently there’s a whole library of books by Islamist terrorists for sale at Amazon.com
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>Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State — the blueprint of the Zionist movement, which spawned the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine through terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and wars that continue to this day
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>Black Nationalist Manifestos by such writers as Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad
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>Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
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>Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare
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>Al-Qaida’s Doctrine for Insurgency: Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin’s “a Practical Course for Guerrilla War”

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u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/politics

>The top American Bin Laden expert agrees. Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies Department, has just finished a book of translations of Bin Laden’s speeches. He says the recent tape is a fake and that Bin Laden has been dead for years.
(ABC 2004).

http://www.amazon.com/Messages-World-Statements-Osama-Laden/dp/1844670457

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9z8b8/professor_bruce_lawrence_head_of_duke_universitys/

u/loverollercoaster · 1 pointr/worldnews

This appears to just be the official US Government translations of already public material.


You can buy an English translation of all the publicly released Bin Laden statements up to 2004 with good footnotes from any decent bookstore. It's called Messages to the World

u/Tendrilpain · 1 pointr/news

well if your really interested but uh yeah that will definitely get you on a list.

It broadly breaks down like this. Bin laden believed non islamic influence was responsible for everything wrong with the world, that there was a global conspiracy against Islam. To fix this he wanted to drive out what he called the 'Crusader-Zionist-Hindu' conspiracy from Muslim controlled regions.

Once that was done these nations free from non Islamic influence and following the "true" teachings of Islam would establish a single unified caliphate which would herald the coming of one last holy war.

9/11 wasn't about starting the end times, Bin Laden believed the world was already in the end times hence the necessity to resurrect the Caliphate to fight against the romans.

u/TheOneSenator · 1 pointr/2012Elections

If you guys agree with this and want a little more insight into Al Qaeda and the Jihadist Resistance in general I encourage you to read " edited by Bruce Lawrence. It's amazingly enlightening. You can preview it here.

http://www.amazon.com/Messages-World-Statements-Osama-Laden/dp/1844670457

I had to read it for a class I took and it changed how I look at a lot of things. It's definitely worth the time.

u/cfmat · 1 pointr/politics

https://www.amazon.com/Messages-World-Statements-Osama-Laden/dp/1844670457

Feel free to try to get it pulled, Amazon has been selling it for over a decade now.