Saturday, November 09, 2002

Religion of Peace Alert!
Art Moore reports that 'Anti-Islam' books spark fatwa:
To say that Kola Boof is the target of a fatwa sentencing her to death for blaspheming Islam only begins to tell the story of this controversial Sudanese-born author.

Boof, who is now under the protection of U.S. government agents, told WorldNetDaily that her first book about women who live under Islam prompted a phone call from Osama bin Laden, with whom she had become acquainted in Marrakesh, Morocco.

"If I had the time, I would come there and slit your throat myself," she recalls bin Laden saying in February 1998.
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Boof insists that she did not want to make public her acquaintance with bin Laden, but was forced to reply to recent claims in the Spanish press by a former roommate, Lourdes Harris, that she had an affair with bin Laden in Marrakesh. That claim was picked up by a "diary" column in the London Guardian on Oct. 24.

The Sudanese writer denies the story, but admits that bin Laden tried to pick up on her at a restaurant and later came to her hotel room.

"I can't deny he was in the room," she said. "He was only there because I was trying to get out of being around him without getting hurt."
Smart move - hanging out with Osama leads to desert dirt naps.