Bin Laden's niece appears in GQ magazine

[Marthatex]

To me, it looks like she is trying to separate herself from extremist Muslim values in a very public and clear way. That kind of picture is a better renouncement of what binLadin stands for than any amount of writing she could do. I don't see any reason to care about that myself - you can't help who your parents are - but I think that's what she's trying to do. It's hard to get yourself out of that family in the public's opinion - both the muslim public and the rest of the world.

That's true, but she's not just separating from "extremist" values, didn't the article say she wouldn't marry any Muslim? She wants to completely Americanize. Which is OK, but unusual for a Muslim I guess.

But the bottom line, why change your name and say you don't want anyone to know who your relative is, and then go in a magazine where EVERYONE now knows. Hypocrisy.
And if she got a law degree from Stanford, why not make a name for herself that way. My feeling is that she's like a Paris Hilton - she has plenty of money and has no intention of working, and would like to make a "splash" in the magazines and with the book.

I won't be buying it unless I hear a really good review.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

But she has such BIG FEET!

Yup, those of us with big feet actually stood in line before birth and asked for them. :doh: :slap: :slap: :slap: :slap: You can't pick your body parts darlin. I'm sure that some people are perfect in every way, but for those of us with "flaws," we do try.

 

[Dark Knight]

She`s got a big nose as well :crazy:

It's a typical Arab nose, let's not be racist, lol. She IS extremely skinny, however! Holy smokes! She's Americanized in that regards, as far as entertainment goes, anyways, sadly.

I think it'll be extremely difficult to divorce herself from Bin Laden completely. And now she will infuriate the Muslim extremists with this "racy" photo spread and will likely be killed by one of them. :doh:

 

[Dark Knight]

Yup, those of us with big feet actually stood in line before birth and asked for them. :doh: :slap: :slap: :slap: :slap: You can't pick your body parts darlin. I'm sure that some people are perfect in every way, but for those of us with "flaws," we do try.

If you weren't so unusually tall, you wouldn't need big feet to balance yourself with! *runs for my life*

:innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :blowkiss:

 

[Marthatex]

Guess I'd better get rid of my husband, he's got a Charleton Heston type Roman/ Jewish nose, but it sure looks good on him.

Guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Marthatex]

If you weren't so unusually tall, you wouldn't need big feet to balance yourself with! *runs for my life*

:innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :blowkiss:

Haha, well what's bad is when you're short like me and I've gone from a 7 to a 9, one extra inch per child.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

If you weren't so unusually tall, you wouldn't need big feet to balance yourself with! *runs for my life*

:innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :blowkiss:

Sad, but true.

 

[LuvChocolate]

Maybe it's BinLadin with a make over.

 

[Details]

That's true, but she's not just separating from "extremist" values, didn't the article say she wouldn't marry any Muslim? She wants to completely Americanize. Which is OK, but unusual for a Muslim I guess.

But the bottom line, why change your name and say you don't want anyone to know who your relative is, and then go in a magazine where EVERYONE now knows. Hypocrisy.
And if she got a law degree from Stanford, why not make a name for herself that way. My feeling is that she's like a Paris Hilton - she has plenty of money and has no intention of working, and would like to make a "splash" in the magazines and with the book.

I won't be buying it unless I hear a really good review.

If I were related to such a criminal, I'd be going to the extremes to be different from him as well - nothing is too far to distance yourself from someone who kills randomly many thousands of people.

I think she found that there is no hiding - change your name, and it doesn't matter, people just think you are trying to hide what you are. Go out in a magazine and publicly renounce everything - that might have a chance. But she can't hide - the world is too small, the crime was too big.

 

[Marthatex]

If I were related to such a criminal, I'd be going to the extremes to be different from him as well - nothing is too far to distance yourself from someone who kills randomly many thousands of people.

I think she found that there is no hiding - change your name, and it doesn't matter, people just think you are trying to hide what you are. Go out in a magazine and publicly renounce everything - that might have a chance. But she can't hide - the world is too small, the crime was too big.

That's a good point - maybe she got tired of "hiding" it.

If I were her I would live in Costa Rica or Tahiti - "Bin Laden who? Who cares?"

 

[SadieMae]

If I were related to such a criminal, I'd be going to the extremes to be different from him as well - nothing is too far to distance yourself from someone who kills randomly many thousands of people.

I think she found that there is no hiding - change your name, and it doesn't matter, people just think you are trying to hide what you are. Go out in a magazine and publicly renounce everything - that might have a chance. But she can't hide - the world is too small, the crime was too big.

She didn't have anything to do with the 9/11 events. We can't hold her accountable, or blame her for something she had no participation in. I think people are being unfair to her, just because of who she is related to. By publicly renouncing the binLaden's and the Muslim culture, she has put her own life in danger. She could just as easily disappeared with a new name, and no one would know. She refused to live an Arabic woman's life as a man's property. In a way, I admire her for speaking out against the family. She's going up against some pretty powerful people.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Osama bin Laden's niece, an aspiring singer who posed for a sexy photo shoot in a men's magazine last year, has signed up for a reality television show about her life and her as yet unfulfilled "quest for stardom."

Wafah Dufour Bin Ladin, whose mother was married to the al Qaeda leader's half brother, was born in California but lived in Saudi Arabia from the age of three to 10.

"I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived notions, but I was born an American and I love my country," Dufour said in a statement from ReganMedia announcing the deal to develop a reality TV series.

Dufour has dropped the "Bin Ladin" -- a different spelling of the Arabic name from that used by Osama bin Laden -- and now goes by the name Wafah Dufour.

Based in New York, Dufour has been promoting herself as a musician and last December appeared in a sultry GQ photo spread, reclining on satin sheets wrapped in feathers and posing in a bubble bath wearing nothing but a necklace.

"Her story will bridge the gap that people feel exists between the cultures she has lived in," ReganMedia President Judith Regan said.


more at:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/10/leisure.binladen.reut/index.html

 

[Marthatex]

Notice the name Judith Regan: the one who published Amber's book right after the trial.

This niece wants publicity; she wants to make it big. End of story.

Doesn't she have a law degree? Let her earn her money the same way others do.