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"Bin Laden look-alike"? Maybe if Osama starts scarfing the pork rinds
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: it's all a big joke, you see: he's the "peaceful" Osama. But evidently Sharief has chosen a name that he figures will make him popular, and electable.
"Bin Laden look-alike runs for election," by Jim Gomez for the Associated Press, with thanks to Allahpundit:
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine elections are largely a battle of name recall, so Agakhan Sharief has chosen a moniker that will surely capture the attention of voters well beyond his backwater southern province — Osama bin Laden.Unlike the world's most-wanted terror suspect, Sharief is known by many in Lanao del Sur province as a peacemaker who has helped broker truces when sporadic clashes have erupted between government troops and Muslim insurgents.
Sporting an 18-inch long beard, turban and a neck scarf similar to that worn by bin Laden in TV images, the 35-year-old Sharief has been campaigning frenziedly for a seat in Lanao's legislative council in May 14 elections.
Posters bear his real name with the explosive moniker plastered in the middle in big, bold letters: "BIN LADEN."
He owes his nickname partly to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Sharief said.
After attending a peace-and-order meeting led by Arroyo in Lanao in 2002, Sharief asked the president to pose for a souvenir picture with him. Somebody in the crowd jokingly told Arroyo that he was known around town by the infamous nickname.
"Oh, I see, the young bin Laden of Mindanao," Sharief quoted Arroyo as saying. The crowd erupted in laughter and applause.
"When I walked out of that meeting, I had a different name — bin Laden," Sharief told The Associated Press by telephone.
Maj. Gen. Ben Dolorfino, once the head of Lanao marine forces, said Sharief has connections with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a large rebel group waging a decades-old rebellion for self-rule, and has helped end some clashes between the insurgents and troops.
"He is the other Osama; he's a peacemaker," Dolorfino said.
Meanwhile, Sharief himself lines up with Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell:
Sharief, a father of nine and husband of a school teacher, has mixed feelings about bin Laden.While condemning the killing of innocent people in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., Sharief said he still is not convinced of bin Laden's involvement. Muslims have the right to struggle for living conditions, he said.
Posted by Robert at April 19, 2007 8:46 AM
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...they had better hope the real Muslims don't find out that they joke about Muslims...
Posted by: exsgtbrown![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 19, 2007 9:04 AM
"Muslims have the right to struggle for living conditions, he said."
....many people around the world struggle to improve their life and living conditions without blowing others up on a daily basis...
....in areas where Muslims are not present, the people can practice the religion of their choice without blowing others up on a daily basis...
....in areas where Muslims are not present, the people co-exist with other religions without blowing others up on a daily basis...
....it has been proven you can co-exist with others without forcing you ways upon them or imposing racist laws upon them without blowing others up on a daily basis....
at April 19, 2007 9:11 AM
Bin Laden (overheard in his cave, upon reading the above article):
"I am issuing a Fatwa against Bin Laden! Uhm, oh, wait, what the heck am I saying???"
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at April 19, 2007 9:15 AM
As a filipino I'm dissapointed our elections are reduced to "battle of name recall" which it sadly is. I really hope that guy doesn't get elected its shameful.
Posted by: Oyobear at April 19, 2007 9:16 AM
Sharief, a father of nine and husband of a school teacher, has mixed feelings about bin Laden
Father of nine?..... now that's a good muslim. Sounds like he's got his own little jihad going.
Posted by: Abrog8 at April 19, 2007 9:28 AM
"Sharief is known by many in Lanao del Sur province as a peacemaker who has helped broker truces when sporadic clashes have erupted between government troops and Muslim insurgents."
......truces?.......have any been kept or honored....
....fool, apology, appeasement, negotiation or "truces" with Muslims are all efforts in futility....
at April 19, 2007 9:45 AM
bin-laden has to be dead he would not go for this! Rosie and Charlie never alined themselfs with the people in America yet,-well the extremist left! They root for these people! All people have the right to struggle for living conditions? What's he think?! What a-os!
Posted by: MZ at April 19, 2007 10:13 AM
Im pretty sure the other bin laden sees himself as a peacemakers as well.
Posted by: KAOSKTRL at April 19, 2007 10:20 AM
"Muslims have the right to struggle for living conditions, he said."
And they'll murder innocent people to make you believe they are oppressed. And if that doesn't work, to make you live in fear. And if that doesn't work, to get you to "revert" to Islam.
And if that doesn't work -- they'll find a way to make a nuclear bomb.
Posted by: Foehammer at April 19, 2007 10:49 AM
"And if that doesn't work -- they'll find a way to make a nuclear bomb.
Posted by: Foehammer "
...then they will find some midget mouthpiece, name him Ahmadinejad to try to provoke a first strike by the western nations, feed him all types of hate rhetoric and make promises of blowing up the world to parrot in front of the cameras....
...then, upon failing to provoke a western first strike, they will cry out allllaahhhh akkkbarrrr, allllaahhhh akkkbarrrr, allllaahhh akkkbarr!.......as they gleefully seek out their visions of Islamic glory......
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 19, 2007 11:03 AM
"Muslims have the right to struggle for living conditions, he said".
True enough. However, in my own struggle for living conditions (i.e., going to work) I have managed to kill not one single person. The same can be said for most posters here. I fail to see why Muslims' struggle for living conditions requires the death of infidels-must be that they follow their Koran while we have no such "guidance". I for one am delighted not to be "guided" by such nonsense.
at April 19, 2007 11:15 AM
'Philippine elections are largely a battle of name recall...'
Any prospective politician with a multicelluar brain and a functioning synapse would call themselves 'tick here'... or should that be 'taqiyya'?
Posted by: western infidel at April 19, 2007 11:22 AM
His opponent should call himself Georgy Bin Bush, and let's see what "name recall" really amounts to.
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 19, 2007 11:39 AM
Now why would the Vast Majority of Moderate Muslims in the Phillipines vote for a man modelling himself on a terrorist?
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at April 19, 2007 12:52 PM
I like the heart in the VOTE.
Posted by: Lame Cherry at April 19, 2007 1:06 PM
Bin Laden" runs for office in the Philippines
does this Philippino live in a cave?
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at April 19, 2007 1:28 PM
Evidently, Muslims do have a good sense of humor,
but they only know one joke:
"HAH! INFIDEL! I KILL YOU!!!"
at April 19, 2007 1:31 PM
"Iporo so agama a Islam" ... Tagalog for "Islam bin very very good to me" (?)
Posted by: blues4allah at April 19, 2007 1:36 PM
Aw, shucks, what's the problem?..sounds like the guy and his campaign will be just another version of "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," well...sort of...
Posted by: maryrose at April 19, 2007 1:46 PM
blues4allah - it's good to see DeadHeads here ...
encouraging.
at April 19, 2007 1:55 PM
The Filipinos are skating on very thin ice, methinks.
Whether it is a joke or not.
If it IS a joke then all we can say is:
"Joke no funny!!!"
Posted by: pythagoras at April 19, 2007 2:38 PM
From the article
Somebody in the crowd jokingly told Arroyo that he was known around town by the infamous nickname.
In a related story, on the Austrian/German border, a local politician jokingly took on the nickname "Adolf Hitler". He is expected to win, based on the lighthearted name recognition of that other, more famous, Adolf Hitler. [shakes head to snap out of it] Actually, that never happened.
Posted by: special_guest at April 19, 2007 7:02 PM
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