If asked why he hates americans so much in an interview, what would Osama Bin Laden specifically say ?

Question

I am interest in an extremely honnest ..hypothetical quote of what Osama Bin Laden would say is the reason he loves to kill americans and wishes to terrorize us.

Please make sure you answer is not so much your opinion, but rather what you think his honnest deep down in his heart opinion is.

I know this is hard to do for many people, but the reason I am asking this question is that I am curious to see how many of you really understand your enemy and why he wants to kill you.

Answer 1

i don't hate americans. i have many american brothers.
i love islam and my religion says those who are not muslim must convert or die.

Answer 2

First of all to label a "terrorist" an "enemy" one must understand the words. A terrorist is a strategist with a political aim whose strategy happens to be terrorizing those whom he wishes to gain a specific political agenda from. An enemy is someone who specifically wants to destroy you, your way of life, your culture, etc.

To understand and answer this question, you must first understand Islam as a peaceful religion, Bin Laden's life, his political experience, and his training in this particular brand of Extremist religio-politics. I use that word as opposed to Extremist Islam because it is a contradiction. One who adheres to, say, Al-Qaida's teachings is not a true Muslim, just as a hooded cross lighting, black man hanging redneck is not a Christian. With that said...

Osama Bin Laden comes from a wealthy family, is very educated, has had very close ties with the American oil industry, has had very close ties with American politicians, ie. Bush, and has had a very active involvement from a very early age within extremist-religio-geo-political groups, ie. the Mujahedeen which was in part trained and funded by the CIA with the purpose of suppressing Soviet expansion into Afghanistan.

I am not going to give you the entire background, but I just needed to point out a few things you should understand and research objectively before understanding why my answer should be accepted.

Now for why Bin Laden hates Americans- he doesn't. Bin Laden comes from a warrior class of extremists who have been fighting imperialism in some form or another all his life. Deep down- he never hated the Russians, he doesn't hate Jews, and he doesn't hate Americans. Why, then, attack "them" in the way he does? Well, for the most part the American government has chosen him as a target, an enemy, and in turn he has done the same.

Bin Laden's religio-political ideology is bent on Pan-Arabism under the guise of Pan-Islamism. The difference is Pan-Islamism means the spread and unification of Islam as a religion under one religio-political system, while Pan-Arabisms main aim is geo-political domination. You combine the two and you have "extremist Islam" trying to wipe out "infidels". You take a religion with some ambiguous passages, alter the interpretation to your liking, teach it to little kids, and now you have an unrelenting, untrackable weapon- suicide bombers.

Bin Laden's quest is for power. How do you take power if not from those who hold the most of it? How do you build a powerful grassroots rebellion if not by attacking, criticizing, claiming to hate, killing, and strategically defeating on the small scale the most powerful imperialist geo-political organization on the planet? Bin Laden doesn't hate Americans... he just knows that claiming to hate Canadians wouldn't get him many recruits.

A better question would be "why do his recruits hate Americans?"

As evidenced by American Taliban's, American Al-Qaida's, and other home grown "terrorists" it is very easy for someone with dislike or discomfort with a system to be completely turned against it. Bin Laden preaches to the choir- he tells people who think they should hate Americans that they SHOULD hate Americans and he gets what he is after- POWER.

Answer 3

Bin Ladin probably feels that the muslim nations have been humiliated by westerners, who realize that those countries are viscious, backward regimes run by despots hiding behind religious authority, governing small people with small lives and no chance of ever improving their lot. He would never admit to the facts of the matter, but he would site the humiliation as his motivation. Realizing that the muslim lack of civilization could never propel them into a leading position in the world, he feels that world domination by terror is their only chance to be prominent in history.

Answer 4

In his own words:

"So our experience in this jihad was great, by the grace of God, praise and glory be to Him, and the most of what we benefited from was that the myth of the superpower was destroyed not only in my mind but also in the minds of all Muslims. Slumber and fatigue vanished and so was the terror which the U.S. would use in its media by attributing itself superpower status or which the Soviet Union used by attributing itself as a superpower."
Osama bin Laden
CNN interview 1997

"To kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."
Osama bin Laden
In Fatwa entitled Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders World Islamic Front Statement, February 28, 1998

"We believe that the biggest thieves in the world are Americans and the biggest terrorists on earth are the Americans."
Osama bin Laden
On ABC's Nightline, June 10, 1998

"It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities."
Osama bin Laden
Answering questions posed by followers at his mountaintop camp in Afghanistan, May 1998

"We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation." - Osama bin Laden - March 1997

"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed -- when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."
Osama bin Laden on videotape shown on Al Jazeera, October 29, 2004

Answer 5

He actually is more pissed at Saudi Arabia than he is at us. True, he sees us as infidels. But what started the whole problem is that Saudi Arabia allowed us on their soil. To him this degrades their society and since the Saudi government would not take action on the issue he has. Now as for the logic behind this rationalization... are you really going to try and reason logic out of the rationalizations of a mad man?

Answer 6

He has made statements to this effect, it's not really the US that is his prime enemy but rather Saudi Arabia, which we are good friends with (at least Bush and Co are). Anyway, he opposes Western intervention in the Middle East and our using of the region for oil.

Answer 7

seems such as you're making a assertion, and disguising it as a query. There would be a place for you on Fox information. i've got by no ability heard anybody say that we deserved the attack on 911 and that Bin encumbered replaced into only interior the attack.

Answer 8

The dude is a loon. Bonkers. Fruit loop. A burnt kabab. One flap short of a tent.

Answer 9

America and the crusader nations are in the Jahili world which is marked by corruption and turning away from God. My cause is to bring about Dar-Al-Islam (the world of Islam) and re-establish the Caliphate in the lands once blessed by the presence of the Prophet (praise be unto him) and the Salafas (his companions). To do this we have to carry out Jihad and mark this period as Dar-Al-Harb (a world of war). I have called before, and do so again, for all men of the Umma to perform Hijra (voluntary expatriation to carry out Jihad). They shall gather in many Beyit Al Shuhadas (Martyrs' Houses) to plan and carry out martyr operations in the name of Jihad and for the advancement of Sharia (Divine Law) and establishment of Dar-Al-Islam. Only in this way can we destroy the Jahili world and those who occupy and support it. "Takfir" allows us to even kill our Muslim brothers in this Jihad because they too are part of the Jahili world.

Answer 10

I love questions like yours, because it exposes who the reasonable rational americans are and who the uninformed, uneducated red necks are.
How do I know? Just read the answers, and you can easily see the the responses that are intelligent and reasonable and thoughtful and you can see the ones who are Bush supporters...down there in the gutter.

Answer 11

The reasoning goes along the same reason he hated the USSR he sees it as a threat to his way of life and religion. He believes that if you destroy America you would destroy western influence in the Muslim world. In effect destroying Christianity.