I was looking at Al Arabiya website when I came across the story of `Wafa Bin Laden`. A little search and found few articles about her. Anyway, here is the story from some news clips:
She walks down the street on the Upper East Side, thin and stylish. But no one’s asking, “Who’s That Girl?”
For, almost all her neighbours know who she is — despite the fact that she has added a twist to her family name. Her uncle is the world’s most wanted. And she’s probably one of the most unwanted.
Meet Wafa’a Bin Laden (or Wafah Binladin as she like to spell her name), niece of Osama bin Laden who wants to be an Arab version of Madonna. But a friend quoted in the New York Post said, “She wants to be a pop star but no record company will have her.”
Wafah blames her infamous uncle — whom she has met just once — for ruining her legal and musical careers.
Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell said, “There’s only one worse surname you could have to launch a pop career, and that’s Hitler.”
“At first, we all had sympathy for her and thought she was a nice girl with an unfortunate family connection. But she’s this extremely spoilt wealthy girl,” a friend said. “And the way she treats people. Now she is trying to make money by giving French lessons. But if you don’t want her French lessons, she will hang up and scream, `Bitch!”`
Wafa’a was born an American citizen while her father was studying in California. She grew up in Switzerland in a multimillion-dollar mansion. She studied law at Geneva University before going on to Columbia for a three-year doctorate.
In 2001, she lived in a $6,000-a-month loft on Spring Street, just ten blocks from WTC. Shopkeepers knew her as a big spender. A saleswoman at Bigdrop reported that she would spend thousands at a time on designer clothes. But in the months before the 9/11 attacks, she left for London.
Binladin is living on Park Avenue, and frequenting New York’s poshest clubs and bars. Some city folk are outraged that she should be living a life of luxury so close to the hole in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
She has left her Muslim background behind and adapted herself to Western culture (with all what that means). She even changed the spelling of her last name to the more Western “Binladin”.
“Because of this last name that I have nothing to do with, the western world hates me, and because I’ve chosen American values, the Saudi Arabian world hates me,” the singer lamented.
Her mother, Carmen Bin Ladin, lives in Geneva and has been separated for 15 years from her husband, Yeslam, the half-brother of the terrorist mastermind.
Yeslam Bin Ladin maintains that he has had no contact with Osama for years. He has been accused in a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks of “providing material financial support to international terrorism” through his half-brother, but has vigorously rejected such allegations.
I don’t speak Arabic. I don’t have a Saudi passport. I play guitar, I write and sing music.”
Wafah is known as a party girl, who once danced with President George W Bush’s daughter Jenna at a nightclub in the south of France. (Wow, what a privilage!)
Carmen’s marriage to Yeslam disintegrated when he expected their children to be brought up conservatively. “My husband doesn’t even acknowledge his daughters when he sees them on the street,” she said.
According to Wafah, her mother fears “some fundamentalist will do away with me” because of her new career. She is currently working on an album and demo tape under the name Wafah Dufour (her mother’s maiden name) and describes her voice as “sort of Chrissie Hynde” — a reference to the vocalist with The Pretenders.
She added: “I am not a bimbo. I don’t want sympathy. I only ask that people try to understand.”
Ok. I understand. My advice to you: Consult some “Animal Rights Associations.” They might grant you some rights as being American. On the other hand, I don’t think that the `fundamentalists’ will target a bitch like you, unless you happen to be in a place targeted by them. I mean, who are you to be targeted?!
Cheep propaganda against Arab, their culture and values. I wont say religion or Islam, as I believe that’s a personal choice, but all articles about this bitch are going around the Arab culture, freedom, terrorism, US dream, etc… To hell, do what you want. You are nothing more than a digit on the left!
