Banner of Jesus washing the feet of bin Laden

A banner depicting Jesus washing the feet of world leaders including bin Laden has sparked a controversy:

Large posters depicting Jesus Christ washing the feet of world leaders as well as terrorist Osama bin Laden have generated numerous complaints at the Oregon malls where they were featured and mall officials planned to remove them Wednesday.

The posters promote the Good News Tour – a religious conference – and organizers say they were trying to make a statement about God, not politics.

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“No one is Judas in the picture, but the meaning is that Jesus would stoop to wash the feet of his enemies. The meaning is that in that painting of powerful world leaders -- and one powerful terrorist -- the one with all the power is ultimately Jesus.”

Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, not his enemies, this image demonstrates a shocking lack of understanding what Jesus wanted to demonstrate to his disciples:

John13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”

This act was done in context of the church and it demonstrated what his death would accomplish:

There was more on Jesus' mind than this when he washed his disciples' feet: Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love (lit. "he loved them to the end"). Jesus' love was expressed not only in performing the menial service of footwashing but also in what this act symbolized: his humiliating death upon the cross by which spiritual cleansing was made possible....Jesus' self-humiliation in washing the feet his disciples' feet symbolized his self-humiliation in accepting death upon the cross to bring about their cleansing from sins. In this respect, Peter and the rest of the disciples must accept what Jesus did for them, for if they did not, clearly they could have no part with him...Jesus was saying to Peter that unless he was prepared to accept what he would do for him on the cross there could be no relationship between them.

Colin G. Kruse, pp. 279-81

Bin Laden isn't a disciple of Jesus so this image makes no sense. There's a difference between Jesus' treatment of his disciples and his treatment of the world. Jesus didn't wash the feet of Pontius Pilot, he washed the feet of his disciples.

Here's a different take on the banner.