The American Spectator
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The “Letter to America” written by Osama bin Laden went viral on social media this week .
It was only a matter of time before leftists gave bin Laden the same adulation as postcolonial thinkers Edward Said and Frantz Fanon .
The progressive Left has consistently reminded us that terrorism is what decolonization looks like.
If bin Laden’s zealotry cuts against the core of modern progressivism, then why is it percolating on the left at all? It seems that the trend isn’t really about the terrorist, it seems that those who parrot him simply wanted a way to make the ongoing conflict in Israel all about themselves.
Ideological discrepancies don't matter because bin Laden is just the latest avatar for their personal victimhood, writes Mary Frances Myler .
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