I hope to publish the large second half of the post on Naming al Qaeda affiliates within a few days.  But there's an instance of Usama (Osama) bin Laden's committing an instance of blasphemy you may want to see for yourself beforehand, because You Tube will take it off within the next couple of days.  I couldn't in good conscience view the video and ignore the fact that it clearly promotes hate and violence towards Americans at 2:06 into the video, where Usama bin Laden begins to narrate an outrageous story which he attributes to CNN, about an unnamed American soldier who, bin Laden claims, admitted to killing non-combatants as a matter of policy.  (Sorry, no, I am not repeating the details here.)  Appalling as that is, that's not the part of the video where bin Laden commits blasphemy, however.

 

At 7:13 into the video, bin Laden commits blasphemy when he refers to the Prophet Muhammed (SAV) as "the infallible one," in the course of suggesting to his listeners, (from 5:00 onwards), that to disagree with bin Laden is the same as disagreeing with the Prophet.  I will cite the relevant Islamic references in the "Blasphemers" section of that main Naming blog-post; but, for now, know that the Prophet never claimed to be perfect.  Perfection is an attribute reserved for God in Islam.  Moreover, the Quran sets out one serious spiritual error the Prophet incurred, and his subsequent chiding from the Divine.  See section 11 of my web-page:  http://fakirscanada.googlepages.com/sacredbooksselections for the relevant Quranic sura.

 

As for the video where bin Laden commits blasphemy, it is here:  The Manhattan Raid 6, at least for the next couple of days.  I've just checked, and as of this writing, it's still up.

 

I've already got the last of that series banned, the Manhattan Raid 10.  You can see some back-and-forth between me and the owner of the video in earlier blog-posts in this counter-terrorism series: