Rep. Gallagher Rips ‘Idiots’ Backing Bin Laden on TikTok

TikTok micro influencer Lynette Adkins has gone viral after approvingly urging her followers to learn “A Letter to America” an Antisemitic, anti-American, misogynistic and homophobic screed by… Osama Bin Laden. pic.twitter.com/9aUXiCEVdw

— Jewlicious 🌻 (@jewlicious) November 16, 2023

Subsequently, TikTok introduced it was “proactively and aggressively” eradicating movies expressing assist for Osama bin Laden and selling the late terrorist chief’s notorious letter.

Content selling this letter clearly violates our guidelines on supporting any type of terrorism. We are proactively and aggressively eradicating this content material and investigating the way it obtained onto our platform. The variety of movies on TikTok is small and experiences of it trending on our… https://t.co/n9Zo7l94r2

— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) November 16, 2023

The White House in a press release on X said “no one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden.”

“Particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories,” it added.

Published by the al-Qaeda pan-Islamist terror group the 12 months following the 9/11 assaults, Osama bin Laden’s letter addressing America is a radical and spiritual critique of the United States and its insurance policies.

Bin Laden actually writes within the “Letter to America” that he’s indignant America is a nation that really votes for its authorities and isn’t a one social gathering fundamentalist Islamic state ruled by Shariah legislation.

Therefore, he’s justified in murdering American residents.

You can inform… pic.twitter.com/pTsSeTJ08z

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 16, 2023

In it, the U.S. is lambasted for stopping the institution of Islamic Shariah legislation, whereas the elimination of Arab governments working as American “agents” is deemed a “necessary step to free the Ummah [Islamic community], to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine.”

It calls on Americans to be in “complete submission” to Allah’s legal guidelines and to discard “all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion [Allah] sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).”

Referring to Islam as “the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah’s Word and religion reign Supreme,” the letter additionally urges Americans “to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and trading with interest.”

Describing America as “the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind,” as a result of “rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, [Americans] choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire,” the letter additionally claims the U.S. has “destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.”

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Citing the Koran and declaring that the Islamic nation “desires death more than you desire life,” it additionally criticizes the U.S. for having “dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war.”

Rejecting the correct of the Jewish state to exist, it calls Israel’s creation “a crime which must be erased,” whereas claiming that Muslims are “the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed.” 

Claiming that the liberty and democracy America upholds is “for yourselves and for [the] white race only,” the letter insists that “the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises [America’s] haughtiness and arrogance.”

The letter additionally criticizes the U.S. for permitting Jews to regulate America’s “policies, media and economy,” and justifies the killing of American civilians, arguing that they not directly assist U.S. insurance policies via taxes. 

Earlier this month, Gallagher warned {that a} surge in assist from younger Americans for the Hamas terrorist group was predominantly linked to TikTok, describing the social app as “the largest scale malign influence operation ever conducted,” whereas he accused the Chinese “digital fentanyl” of “brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies.”

WATCH: @repgallagher: How are so many younger individuals in America siding with Hamas terrorists?

Who have killed no less than 30 Americans and kidnapped a dozen extra, nonetheless at this second holding 10 hostages.

Where are they getting their information?

The reply, more and more, is TikTok – an… pic.twitter.com/RDaTamjrHC

— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) November 4, 2023

Calling for an pressing “ban” on TikTok, “or at least force the sale to an American company,” he additionally famous the platform “is not just an app teenagers use to make viral dance videos [but] a growing number of Americans rely on TikTok for their news.” 

“Today, TikTok is the top search engine for more than half of Gen Z and it’s controlled by America’s foremost adversary — the Chinese Communist Party,” he famous, including that its Chinese mother or father firm, Bytedance, can’t be trusted as a result of in China “there is no such thing as a private company.”

A current Pew Research Center examine revealed a big enhance in Americans, significantly youthful adults, turning to TikTok for his or her information, contrasting with static or declining information consumption on different social media platforms. 

According to the examine, an alarming 32 p.c of Americans aged 18 to 29 flip to the China-owned platform to obtain their information.

The matter comes as TikTok continues to return underneath scrutiny by varied governments over fears that Beijing would possibly exploit it for person information or its agendas.

As Breitbart News reported, the video sharing social community, owned by a hostile international nation, has already proven itself to be meddling in different international locations’ affairs, with prime U.S. intelligence officers, together with CIA Director William J. Burns and FBI Director Christopher Wray, having unequivocally warned concerning the nationwide safety threats posed by TikTok, citing considerations over pro-Hamas content material and different points.

In September, a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on countering China’s “malign influence operations” within the United States revealed an “absolutely terrifying” and unprecedented state of affairs wherein the communist Chinese authorities may use its “massive” information procured from TikTok in a possible army battle.

In the occasion of a world battle, Communist China will use TikTok’s algorithm to govern and affect Americans. pic.twitter.com/9Nw6sCLUpP

— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) September 28, 2023

The U.S., UK, and New Zealand have prohibited the app on official units, regardless that TikTok asserts it has not and wouldn’t share information with China’s authorities.

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump tried to outright ban new downloads of the Chinese app, however a sequence of courtroom choices blocked the ruling from going into impact.

Since then, many have modified their stance, with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) finally admitting, “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action 1700570616.”

TikTok’s mother or father firm, ByteDance, has additionally been caught prying on U.S. and UK journalists in a number of situations. The Chinese app has even proven itself to pose an outright hazard to youngsters and youths and has grow to be a nationwide safety menace that has meddled in U.S. elections.