LET THE IDIOTS EXPOSE THEIR IDIOCY.

There's a tradition of long standing of calling attention to your Virtue by presenting yourself in a transgressive way.  Long hair in the 1960s.  Nose studs and nose rings in the 1980s.  Face tattoos more recently.  All of those things have long since lost their shock value.  What now?  Praise Allah, rediscover Osama bin Laden's manifesto, and veil yourself.

Fine.  Sometimes people come with warning labels, notes Red State's Brandon Morse.

I never saw any of the videos that hit TikTok that cheered on Osama Bin Laden's letter, and I don't really need to. If you've seen one person try to justify terrorism in America because of its sins, then you've seen them all, and the arguments aren't very convincing. It's really just a bunch of idiots buying into an idea that other idiots sold them.

While these people are bothersome, the last thing I would want to do is censor them. On the contrary. I want them to see daylight. I want their videos dragged into the middle of the public square where they can be dissected, derided, and destroyed. I want everyone to watch it happen. I want reply posts that rip it to shreds to go viral and the people who might have even given the time of day to that kind of stupid thinking feel foolish for doing so and quietly reform their own positions.

The answer to speech, he notes, is more speech.

If it's a stupid idea and a person endorses it, and that endorsement is seen by the general public, then it will be obliterated and lessons can be learned. Even people who are against the idea being spoken might learn new insights and reasons why they could continue to disagree or despise the thing being talked about.

Suddenly, the stupid idea becomes a teachable moment and a learning experience. That idea that would have festered and gained power by being relegated to chat rooms where it wouldn't be challenged is now getting torpedoed with such prejudice that only the truly foolish will believe it. It's less likely to radicalize someone in the safety of the shadowy parts of the internet.

For an infestation to occur, its beginnings need to be furtive.

It helps, though, for people to understand the counterargument, and Mr Morse's colleague Nick Arama fears that thirty years of politically correct education produces epistemic closure.

The problem is that this anti-American attitude has been stoked by the left for decades now, and this is the result that we are seeing with all the accompanying ignorance. If you are properly educated with the facts, you understand what ranting nonsense the letter is and the good that America has brought to the world. But it's not just the letter. You then would understand that the left is selling you garbage on so many other things The left stoked Occupy and the BLM as well.

It's not enough, though, to quote approvingly of the decolonizing notions the late terrorist alludes to in his letter.  For some social media influencers, conversion to Islam is the virtue signal.

Millennial and Gen-Z women say they've been inspired to convert to Islam by the Israel-Hamas war - and are sharing their religious awakenings on TikTok.

Recent converts say the conflict, which began with the murder of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, become a driving factor for their decision to join the Muslim faith.

Experts suggested for many, the choice is the 'ultimate rebellion against the West'.

Among those sharing their journey is a self-described 'leftist queer gremlin' named Alex, who recently purchased a copy of the Quran - even though most interpretations of Islam take a dim view of LGBT relationships.

In the developed countries, it's easier to take off a religious affiliation than an ear bolt or a facial tattoo, and more reversible than top surgery.

Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, is unsurprised by the women's conversion.

'I mean, rebellion is part of being young,' Vidino told the outlet. 'At this point, what's more rebellious, what's more anti-Western and anti-capitalism and anti-establishment, than a conversion to Islam?'

He stated that reversion is 'the ultimate rebellion against the West.'

It's a way of showing affinity with like-minded malcontents, without the bad crack or the bong hits.  I bet, though, that when showing affinity means going to wine tastings with other middle aged cat ladies, those proscriptions of alcohol are going to test their faith, such as it is.