Nobody but Channel 4!

Except perhaps the BBC?

Posted by: Fred at August 20, 2008 3:36 PM

Suddenly, I'm all warm and fuzzy.

Posted by: undaunted at August 20, 2008 3:38 PM

What does James love, what does Eli love, what does Arjun love, what does Sidharta love, what does Mahavir love? What do infidels love? What do the 5 billion non Muslims love?

Posted by: savsiv at August 20, 2008 4:41 PM

I am not as tired of hearing about Madonna as I am of Osama bin Laden. The recent reports of his death have not yet been followed by new tapes and videos, so maybe we'll be spared any more of that.

Here is the lighter side of Islam, and this is as light as it gets: worldwide adulation of the most accomplished mass murderer since Pol Pot.

If Adolf Hitler had been captured (by the Western Allies - the Russians would have taken him apart with a buzz saw) and put on trial, what would have been the worldwide response? Execration, absolute and uncontained. Anyone perverted enough to be sympathetic to him would have kept their mouths well and truly shut.

If Osama bin Laden is not with his paradisiacal virgins and is caught and put on trial, a fifth of the human race will be on side with him. He will be celebrated without reserve. THAT is the lighter side of Islam, and it is the face of the future of humanity as well, if reason and democracy continue to indulge in these stunted, asinine, cowardly exercises in deference and obeisance. Nuff said.

Posted by: Novalis at August 20, 2008 5:02 PM

Yes, the lighter side. Reminds me of a post I put up some time ago:

"Almost a year ago I discovered an unusual item in the Personals Column at the Teheran Times. It can now also be found at www.craigslist.com -- first click on "Iran," and then on that red-faced rubric "Men Seeking Women."

"MWMM, financially secure, seeks SW aged 9 to 19, for fun and fourth wifedom, to make my family life complete. Friends tell me I have smoldering come-hither looks, and am incredibly handsome; wives unanimously insist I am Ghassan Massoud look-alike. Piercing brown eyes, nicely-trimmed beard, athletic and fit. Very careful about watching what I eat. South Teheran sincerity, North Teheran income. Widely-travelled (chiefly European capitals, including Vienna and Paris, but also within Middle East) in the past, but really prefer to stay at home with a good book (last book read: Qur’an). Enjoy halal cooking. Wives 1, 2, and 3 have all won pistachio-and-honey pastry bakeoffs. Hobby: haggling for bargains with the bazaaris and haunting old bookshops (last purchase: leather-bound Qur’an with silver metalwork from Meshed). Collect old tapes of Qur’anic recitation, also examples of Qur’anic calligraphy from Qom. Secret dream: being put in charge of redecorating Andalucia as long-term project on popular television series This Old Dar-Al-Islam. Outgoing, solid citizen, long-time member of Oversight Council for the Guardians of Virtue. Much-decorated Revolutionary Guard and Basij veteran. Accomplished hands-on former mayor of major metropolitan area, not a thinker but a doer. Proven track record of following through on special projects, from earliest planning stage to final execution.

Unpretentious, good father, history buff (special interest: 7th century Arabia). Solid Mideastern values. Grew up on a farm outside Teheran, like to think I retain that basic rural outlook. Still passionate about most large animals (Ayatollah Khomeini’s “How to Treat Your Barnyard Animals” was favorite bedtime reading during teenage years). Famous for my irreverent humor (jokes about the weather a specialty). Adventurous in spirit, yet thoughtful and quiet in manner, with a truly global approach to the world’s problems. Strong proponent of nuclear program as environmentally-friendly alternative source of power for Iran. Believe that family, tribe, and Umma come before all else. Successful, strongly motivated, never satisfied until all goals completely achieved no matter what the sacrifices.

Hoping to find that special someone of similar background, submissive and quiet, content to be good cook and house-cleaner, happy in her chador, who cannot drive and understands that for women, even more than for men, thinking is greatly overrated.

Pet peeves: sculpture, painting, music, wine, dogs, Infidels.

Marriage first, then possibly getting to know each other, just a little bit, later.

If interested, please send picture (eye-slit only), and contact information (if under the age of 11, please include parents’ contact information) to: Office of the President, Big White Palace With The Gold Leaf Domes and Carpets and Vases and Other Stuff Inside, Islamic Republic of Iran, Teheran, Iran."

Posted by: Hugh at August 20, 2008 5:08 PM

Of course, the more interesting documentary, which I won't be holding my breath waiting for from either the BBC or any mainstream media, would be to go out and find muslims named Osama/Usama/Asama, but of a younger vintage, say perhaps no more than 15.

And having found a surfeit of young Osamas to whom to speak, to then interview their parents, and to ask them their reasons for their child's name.

Posted by: Jesus Worshipping Zionist at August 20, 2008 5:29 PM

Hey, anyone can find an "Osama" and send in his choice. All you need do is photograph "your Osama" and interview him.

I am trying to figure what sly subversive things could be done;;

http://osamaloves.channel4.com/referrers/new

Posted by: Ummah Gummah at August 20, 2008 6:46 PM

I dunno, guys....

An "Adolf loves-" series of radio spots during WWII would have made the real Adolf look pretty silly.

Posted by: skevin at August 20, 2008 7:47 PM

Time to link to the classic Hezbollah Video Data Service again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8vC0K-ylq0

Posted by: CJ at August 20, 2008 10:35 PM

If OBL isn't deceased, I bet he is planning a big surprise for the 2012 Olympics in Londonistan.

"UK Your 9/11 Is Coming," a sign often held up by Mohammedans outside the Finsbury Mosque.

Posted by: darcy at August 20, 2008 11:41 PM

Traitors.

Posted by: joeblough at August 21, 2008 12:03 AM

"the sunnier side of Islam."
That was an unfortunate misprint; it was supposed to read "The Sunni side of Islam"...;)

Posted by: DaninVan at August 21, 2008 2:15 AM

OSAMA,S DAD

On Oct. 12, 2002, the night of the first terrorist attack in Bali, Paridah binti Abas was four weeks pregnant. She was living in Gresik, a mid-sized Indonesian city where factory workers occupy small two- and three-room houses along crowded streets of dirt and gravel. Paridah's neighborhood mosque was silent. The day's fifth and final prayer had concluded hours before. The air was muggy and still.

Paridah binti Aba was lying on a thin, satin-covered mattress on the floor of the shack she shared with her husband and five children. One of her relatives was listening to the radio. Paridah sat up when she heard news about an "accident" in nearby Bali. The report, she later told me, described explosions and fires. Sirens wailed in the background. Tourists from Australia and Europe shouted their stories to reporters. A Saturday night at two popular nightclubs had ended with friends ripped to pieces and burned to death. Dozens, maybe hundreds, were dead, and an entire block of buildings was gone. Police said it was the work of terrorists.

Paridah was vomiting. Morning sickness had made her so nauseous that she found it difficult to rise. "Most of the time I was just lying down, trying to keep myself from throwing up," she later told me. "It's not nice to vomit. I was in so much pain." She says she was too sick that night to think about the explosions, that the news did not hold her attention.

I asked Paridah how she felt when she heard about the attacks in Bali—the fires, the burned bodies, the broken buildings.

Her gaze held steady on mine.

"An Islamic state must be the goal of all people," she said. "Once that has been achieved, we will live together in peace."

I asked Paridah if it would have been acceptable to have killed 20 people instead of 200, according to the Quran.

"I do not know. I am not that well educated in the Quran," she snapped,

Paridah binti Aba With her sixth child, a baby boy, named after one of Paridah's heroes, a man she says "can live humbly, despite his wealth." Paridah's voice rises an octave when she coos his name: Osama.

Osama,s father is continuing to preach live to radical groups around Indonesia, and is most likely using a mobile phone.

Osama,s father has produced 14 cassettes of his sermons, which were then sold in East Java, also Osama,s father plans to have 18 books published hopefully in the near future

Beside his preaching he is better know for his leading role in one of Indonesia,s moslem,s more famous achievements

Paridah admitted that her husband helped "lead the jihad" in Bali. She said even her children were proud of what Osama,s father did. "They believe that Indonesia must say, 'Thank you' to their father," she said. "Because he showed everyone that Bali is full of masiah—what is the word in English? Bad things."

Osama,s father
Ali Gufron bin Nurhasyim

Posted by: InfidelK9 at August 21, 2008 4:34 AM