Poll: Over 30% of Gen Z voters think Osama bin Laden had good viewpoints

Young adults may have an even more positive view of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden than once believed.

Many were shocked when some young Americans embraced bin Laden's letter that justified 9/11 in a trend of TikTok videos in November 2023, but the overall level of support was hard to gauge on such a widely available platform.

Bin Laden's letter to U.S. citizens was released just over a year after the 9/11 terror attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans. In it, the terrorist leader justified the killing of civilians with roundabout logic and called the U.S. the "worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind."

Just over a month after the disturbing TikTok trend, a Daily Mail poll of Americans voters revealed that 31% of young voters believe bin Laden had "good" views.

That number is a combination of 18- to 29-year-old voters who said bin Laden's "views were good but his actions were bad" (23%) and those who said that both his views and actions were good (8%).

Black respondents were the second-most likely group to share this view, with 29% agreeing his views were good. Voters over 65 years old were least likely to agree with bin Laden's views, at around 2%.

At the same time, 20% of 18- to 29-year-olds said that they either have a somewhat positive or completely positive view of bin Laden. When adding in those who said they have a "mix of positive and negative" views of bin Laden, that number jumps to 37%.

Again, black Americans had the most positive view of bin Laden of any racial group at 18%.

Just 10% of Democrats had a somewhat or completely positive view of bin Laden, while Republicans said the same at a rate of 9%.

In total, 14% of American voters said that bin Laden had some good in terms of his actions and/or views. That number was composed of 5% who said his views and actions were positive, 9% who said only his views were good; 7% said they didn't know, while 76% said he was bad across the board.

The poll was reportedly conducted for the outlet by J.L. Partners and asked 1,000 Americans.

"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is a cancer in the American body politic: a small but sizeable group of its youngest voters," said James Johnson, founder of J.L. Partners.

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