letter to america
osama bin laden letter to america full text
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful:
Ayah from Holy Quran: “Permission has been given to those who fight because they have been wronged, and indeed God has power to help them.”
Some American writers have published articles under the title “On what basis do we fight?” These articles sparked a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and relied on Islamic law, while others did not. Here we wanted to explain the truth clearly and as a warning, hoping and seeking reward from God Almighty, and seeking His success and support.
As we seek God’s help, we base our answers on two questions addressed to the Americans:
First: Why do we fight and oppose you?
Second: What do we invite you to and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why do we fight and oppose you? The answer is very simple:
Because you attacked us and are still attacking us.
You attacked us in Palestine, which has been under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British, with your help and support, handed over Palestine to the Jews, who occupied it for more than 50 years; Years full of oppression, tyranny, crimes, murder, displacement, destruction and devastation.
The establishment and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. Of course, there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel.
The establishment of Israel is a crime that must be erased, and anyone whose hands are tainted by contributing to this crime must pay the price, and pay the price dearly.
We laugh and cry at the same time when we see that you are not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as promised to them in the Torah, and everyone who disagrees with this alleged truth is accused of anti-Semitism, and this is one of the most horrific fabrications widely spread in history, and the people of Palestine. Pure Arabs and original Semites.
Muslims are the heirs of Moses, peace be upon him, and the heirs of the true Torah that has not changed. Muslims believe in all the prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon them. If the followers of Moses were promised Palestine’s right to the Torah, then the Muslims are the nation most deserving of that.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and expelled the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the prophets, peace be upon them. Therefore, the call for a historical right in Palestine cannot be against the Islamic nation that believes in all the prophets of God, peace and blessings be upon them, and we do not differentiate between them.
The blood flowing from Palestine must be avenged on an equal footing. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone. Their women are not widowed alone. Their children were not orphaned alone.
You attacked us in Somalia; You supported Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
Under your supervision, approval and orders, the governments of our countries that act as your agents attack us on a daily basis, and these governments prevent our people from establishing Islamic law, using violence and lies.
These governments make us taste humiliation, and put us in a great prison of fear and oppression. These governments steal our nation’s wealth and sell it to you at a low price.
These governments surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, recognizing the existence of their state over the remains of its people. Removing these governments is our duty, and a necessary step to liberate the nation, make Sharia the supreme law, and restore Palestine. Our battle against these governments is not separate from our battle against you.
You steal our wealth and oil at low prices because of your international influence and military threats. This theft is truly the largest theft that humanity has witnessed in the history of the world.
Your forces occupy our country; And you deploy your military bases there; You are corrupting our lands and besieging our sanctities, in order to preserve the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuation of your plunder of our wealth.
You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children are dying every day. It is strange that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show any concern. But when three thousand of your people died, the whole world rose up and did not sit still.
You supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and you agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered Al-Aqsa Mosque to pollute it in preparation for seizing and destroying it.
These tragedies and misfortunes are just a few examples of your injustice and aggression against us. Our religion and our minds have commanded that the oppressed have the right to repel aggression, and expect nothing from us except jihad, resistance, and revenge. Is it reasonable in any way to expect, after America attacked us for more than half a century, that we would then leave it to live in security and peace?
This argument contradicts your constant repetition that America is the land of freedom and its leaders in this world. Therefore, it is the American people who choose their government of their free will, a choice that stems from their approval of its policies, and thus the American people chose, agreed and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and rape of their lands, and the continued killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians.
The American people have the ability and choice to reject their government's policies, and even to change them if they want to.
The American people are the ones who pay the taxes that fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies that occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets that ensure the siege of Iraq.
These tax dollars are given to Israel so that it continues to attack us and penetrate our lands. It is the American people who finance the attacks against us, and they are the ones who supervise the disbursement of this money in the way they want, through their elected candidates.
Just as the US military is part of the American people, they are the same people who shamelessly help the Jews fight against us.
It is the American people who use their men and women in the American forces that attack us.
For this reason, the American people cannot be innocent of all the crimes committed by Americans and Jews against us.
God Almighty has legislated the permissibility and choice of revenge, and therefore, if we are attacked, we have the right to retaliate.
Whoever destroyed our villages and towns, we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever stole our wealth, we have the right to destroy his economy, and whoever killed our civilians, we have the right to kill his citizens.
The American government and press still refuse to answer this question: Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace. America does not understand the language of morals and principles, so we address it in the language it understands.
As for the second question that we want to answer: What do we invite you to and what do we want from you?
The first thing we call you to is Islam, the religion of God’s monotheism, disavowal of polytheism, and rejection of that. Of complete love for God Almighty and complete submission to His laws; He rejects all opinions, orders, theories and religions that contradict the religion that was revealed to his Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. Islam is the religion of all the prophets, there is no difference between them, peace be upon them all.
To this religion we invite you; The seal of all previous religions, it is the religion of the monotheism of God, sincerity, good morals, righteousness, mercy, honor, purity, and piety. It is the religion of benevolence to others, establishing justice among them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and oppressed. It is the religion of enjoining good and forbidding evil. With the hand, tongue, and heart, it is the religion of jihad for the sake of God so that the word of God and His religion is supreme. It is the religion of unity and agreement to obey God, and complete equality among all people, without distinction of color, gender, or language.
It is the religion whose book - the Qur’an - will remain preserved without change, after the other divine books and messages have changed.
The Qur’an is a miracle until the Day of Resurrection. God challenged anyone to come up with a book like the Qur’an, or even ten verses like it.
The second thing we call on you to do is to stop the injustice, lies, and immorality that has spread among you.
We call on you to be people of morals, principles, honor and purity. Renouncing immorality, sodomy, intoxicants, gambling, and trading in usury.
We invite you to do all of this so that you can be freed from what you have fallen into; So that you can be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, and that your leaders hide from you the vile state you have reached.
It is sad for me to tell you that you are the worst civilization in human history. You are the nation that, instead of ruling by God’s law in its constitution and laws, choose to invent your own laws as you wish and desire.
You separate religion from your politics, which contradicts the pure nature that affirms the absolute authority of the Lord, your Creator. You are evading the embarrassing question that is posed to you: How can God Almighty create His creation, give them authority over all creatures and the earth, and give them all the necessities of life, and then deprive them of the most important of them? Need to: Know the laws that govern their lives?
You are the nation that absolves usury, which all religions have forbidden/yet you build your economy and investments on usury, and as a result, in all its various shapes and forms, the Jews took control of your economy, and through it they then controlled your media, and now they control all aspects of your life and make you Be their slaves and achieve their goals, at your own expense. Exactly what Benjamin Franklin warned you about.
You are a nation that allows the production, trade, and use of intoxicants. You allow drugs, and only prohibit their trade, even though your country is the largest consumer of them.
You are a nation that permits immoral acts and considers them to be among the pillars of personal freedom. You continued to descend into this abyss from level to level until incest spread among you, to which neither your honor nor your laws objected.
Who can forget the unethical acts committed by your President Clinton in the official Oval Office? After that, you did not even hold him accountable, except that he made a mistake, and after that everything went unpunished. Is there a worse event in which your name enters history and is remembered by nations?
You are a nation that allows gambling in all its forms/and companies practice it as well, making criminals rich.
You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools that invite customers to buy them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors and strangers to increase your profit margins. Then you shout that you support women's liberation.
You are a nation that practices the sex trade in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant companies and institutions are based on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism, freedom, and other deceptive names you give them.
For all of this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and brag before the nations of humanity that you brought them AIDS, a satanic American invention.
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other country in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto Agreement so that you can secure the profits of your greedy companies and industries.
Your law is the law of the wealthy, who control their political parties and finance their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews who control your politics, your media, and your economy.
What has distinguished you in the history of mankind is that you have used your power to destroy humanity more than any other nation in history. Not to defend principles and values, but to rush to secure your interests and profits. You are the ones who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you committed, you advocates of freedom?
Let us not forget one of your most important qualities: your duality in morals and values. Your hypocrisy in morals and principles. All your morals, principles, and values have two scales: one for you, and one for others.
The freedom and democracy you call for are for you and for the white race only. As for the rest of the world, you impose your brutal, destructive policies and governments that you call friends of America. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic Party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and won the elections, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army on them, attacked them with tanks and guns, imprisoned them, and tortured them.
Your policy on prohibiting weapons of mass destruction and eliminating them by force to ensure world peace: it applies only to countries that you do not allow to possess such weapons. As for countries that agree to it, such as Israel, they are allowed to keep these weapons and use them to defend their security. Anyone else you suspect of manufacturing or keeping these types of weapons, you label them as criminals and take military action against them.
You are the last to respect the decisions and policies of international law, but you claim that you want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. For more than 50 years, Israel has been ignoring United Nations resolutions, with the full support of America.
As for the war criminals whom you condemn and establish criminal courts for, you shamelessly demand that they be granted immunity, but history will not forget the war crimes you committed against Muslims and the rest of the world. Those you killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a disgrace from which you will never be able to escape. Suffice it to remind you of the recent war crimes you committed in Afghanistan, where you destroyed innocent, densely populated civilian villages, and bombs were dropped on mosques, causing the roof of the mosque to collapse on the heads of the Muslims praying in it. You were the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Kunduz, bombed them in Fort Janji, and killed more than 1,000 prisoners from suffocation and thirst.