I know it's kind of pedantic... but it's Usama Bin Laden.. with a "U"
Anyway, in terms of assasination, it tend sto make people like this more powerful - because they becoem matryr's... I remember reading something that Bin Laden was reported to have said, which was basically "yes, America will kill me, I am only a man and America is a super power, so I will be destroyed... but when they kill me they will make 1000 Usama's...
For these people who preach hatrid and intolerance... the best counter measure to me argument... someone like Usama Bin Laden or Robertson is not powerful for things they will actually carry out, but rather the disillusioned and alienated who their message finds resonance on. The way to fight them is to remove the conditions that make them powerful, not to physically destroy them - because death just makes them stronger in terms of their message and their hate.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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