No matter what religion a fanatical fundamentalist belongs to, he is still going to turn out to be a damn hypocrite. I'm sure that after all their sex scandals, Evangelicals are happy to know that they are not alone amongst the most fanatical representatives of world religions. It might even turn out that Osama's porn collection overlaps with the ones enjoyed by the most rabid preachers of Christian virtue. Here is an article about the porn that was discovered in Osama's compound:
The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
If bin Laden hadn't gotten himself killed, he could have easily run for office as a Republican candidate. The guy was obviously hypocritical enough for that.
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Not that something like this isn't likely, but this could very well be planted in his compound by the americans. Given how they tried to shape the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch narratives to suit their agenda I wouldn't trust this 'insider info' at all. If you're the CIA why wouldn't you want to make OBL look like a hypocritical sex-crazed fool?
I do hope it's true, though. In fact, I don't even care to see his pictures; I just want to know the details of his porn collection. Gimme some names, Seal Team 6!!
Stringer
I think the story is statistically probable since it's very hard to find any adults who don't have any porn or sex paraphernalia where they live. I'd be really surprised if the guy didn't have any after so many years on the run.
" I don't even care to see his pictures; I just want to know the details of his porn collection"
-These are words of a very psychologically healthy individual.
Trying to find an adult human who has never looked at porn is like trying to find a platinum-plated unicorn -- they don't exist. (And anyone who claims they never have is lying.)
However, the problem is the Republicans and Taliban-y types (who are very similar) are repressed hypocrites about it, and take out their neuroses on all the rest of us.
I know I will be vilified in some quarters for saying this, but I think a lot of the problems in the Mideast come from the pervasive sexual repression there -- that energy just has to emerge somewhere. It's human nature.
-Mike
" a lot of the problems in the Mideast come from the pervasive sexual repression there -- that energy just has to emerge somewhere"
-That's exactly what I think, too. The world would be a very different place if more people found sexual happiness.
They also found Avena, the herbal Viagra substitute, in his cave.
I am sure Avena is fully permitted by his religion. He wasn't a young man to do well without.
Not that something like this isn't likely, but this could very well be planted in his compound by the americans.
+1
It's such politics that we most likely won't ever know the truth. The officials themselves don't say he used it:
The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.
Isn't it a strange thing not to know, if Americans discovered the collection? And are milking it for all it's worth?
sexual repression there -- that energy just has to emerge somewhere
Orwell had the same idea in "1984".
There may be something in it, f.e. helping to create large numbers of dissatisfied young men, but imo it's 99% of:
1) correlation between this and other aspects of culture. Usually the more sexually repressed culture is, the greater difference between it and the West (ideas of democracy, human rights, individual freedom, etc).
2) correlation between this and being a failed country, probably in a state of war, which many Muslim countries currently are.
Russian Revolutionaries weren't Revolutionaries because of sexuality. They were so because they saw injustices and wanted to fix them. If one isn't sexually repressed, it doesn't mean one will happily exist in personal nirvana and not care about what's going on in the world. F.e. Osama wasn't glad of Americans being near Muslim holy cities and demanded that they leave. Because of all issues around sexuality in Western culture, people push it in every hole, instead of putting it in its' place and leaving it there.
"people push it in every hole, instead of putting it in its' place and leaving it there"
-Given the subject under discussion, I find this passage to be highly suggestive. :-)
While I would not be surprised if Osama indeed had a porn collection (What about Obama, by the way? :) ) - even if he had not, it would be extremely useful for the Americans to claim that he had. To discredit him in the eyes of his followers...
Sex scandals haven't discredited a single evangelical in the eyes of his followers, though.
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