Even If You Hate The US, You Shouldn’t Praise Bin Laden

I don’t think I’ve read anyone who’s more virulent in his hatred of the US than Ass’ad Abu Khalil (a.k.a Angry Arab), but even he is warning that there’s nothing to praise about Bin Laden:

By any measure or by any standard, and no matter whether one is right or left, the man was a fanatical terrorist. There is nothing romantic or glorious about the life of this fanatic terrorist. How would we progressive fare under a rule by such a man? How would a woman fare under his rule? His cv is littered with war crimes and murders. He is a killer and his political claims should be dismissed.

Anti Americanism in the Arab world should evolve to become more like its (mainstream) counterpart in Europe. It should be secular and based on economic and political ideology, not on some medieval paradigm of Crusaders vs Muslims. “Progressives” (an umbrella term for the Left, anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists) make wrong bedfellows for islamists. They are almost in every way their complete opposites. Even the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” principle shouldn’t change that.