Since the September 11 attacks, Bin Laden has been inimaginably demonized by Westerners and Americans. On his behalf, the latter justified their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But, even after his death, speculations continue on the former head of Al Qaida.
This is how we fell, with a lot of astonishment, on an article from, however, very serious, San Francisco Chronicle, evoking the discovery of pornographic videos in the computer files of Bin Laden.
This information, reported first by Reuters, was “released” by civil servants who have seized five computers, 10 hard drives and dozens of USB keys, in the house where Ben Laden lived.
Obviously, when reading this “scoop”, we can only ask these questions: for what purpose was this information released? Why do we continue to dirty the image of Bin Laden, even after death, especially in the eyes of the Arab world? Beyond Bin Laden, is it now Islam that we target?
Recall that in 2002 Bin Laden had sent a letter to the American people in which he denounced the laxity of the West on the issue of sexual mores. With this supposed discovery of porn videos on bin Laden’s computers, the Americans implicitly accuse the founder of Al Qaida of hypocrisy. He, who has always been reproached for his polygamy …
In addition, it is enough to look, on News.google.com, the number of links having relayed this information. The number of results displayed by the search engine is enormous: around 24,075 (today at 3:00 p.m. – local time)! Definitely, even dead, bin Laden continues to scare them …
