Misleading

Submitted by M. T. (Canada), Jun 3, 2011 at 21:10

This post is misleading because you have taken an excerpt from the article out of context and failed to elaborate on the article in its entirety. She is talking about Osama bin Laden during the Soviet invasion/occupation of Afghanistan NOT about Osama bin Laden in his later years. She explicitly disassociates the American-Muslim community from bin Laden after he became much more radicalized and anti-American. Here is an except you forgot:

"That dream of a pure and merciful Islamic state in a Muslim land, never realized itself in Afghanistan, and for the man (Osama bin Laden) that dreamed of it created a nightmare on September 11, 2001. Bin Laden became someone we did not know and could not understand. "

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