issued about half a dozen audiotapes during each of the past two years. Occasionally there were gaps of many months between releases, but he seemed eager to speak about Al Qaeda-related headlines, as well as to promote authors he happened to be reading--these included Noam Chomsky and John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, co-authors of "The Israel Lobby."These authors are anti-Israel (Mearsheimer and Walt) or anti-Israel and anti-Jewish (Chomsky) so it makes sense that bin Laden was reading their books. Chomsky has gone as far as appearing in Syrian media as supporting Iranian interests over those of America and Israel and writing the forward to Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson's book, Memoire en defense contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire.
Osama bin Laden was portrayed as a reactionary that would lead us back to the rule of the Caliphates. Yet the secular section of his book shelf resembled that of a Berkeley radical with a violent streak. Perhaps the thought processes of totalitarians on the far right and far left, like Hitler and Mao, are more or less the same.
No comments:
Post a Comment