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Osama Bin Laden

KOLA BOOF (NAIMA BINT HARITH) UNWILLING MISTRESS OF THE TERRORIST OSAMA BIN LADEN

Published in 2007, with more controversial books to follow, author Kola Boof, the woman born Naima Bint Harith, and her family received death threats and at one point had to go into government protection, because of her honesty about the brutality that she suffered and her connection to wealthy, powerful, and dangerous men which included terrorist Osama Bin Laden. She brings us to an Africa few Westerners can really try on, one in which racism (not limited to Black versus White) and Arab-Muslim tensions are hand in hand. She is a womanist, a political activist, a mother, a writer and poet.  And if you read her book, you might not be the same. Devastating would be too light a word.

An important aspect to her story is that she was as a child infibulated.  This means that her vagina was sewn to keep it small and tight.  She says still having her clitoris helped her want to live.  But normal sex is impossible for her.  She needs an especially patient and gentle lover and Bin Laden was certainly not one of the men who cared if he hurt her.  A future post will be about this practice, also called female circumcision, which is seen as a right of passage by some people on this earth, but which is seen as the ultimate control over women by many.  Those of you who have pain with intercourse might relate to the frustration she felt with sex.

Through these posts, we become familiar with - and advocate - informed choice.  Yet so many women who have become mistresses have done so because they had little to no choice. Kola Boof was a mistress to other men before she met Osama Bin Laden and had no choice. 

She was seduced and molested as an underage girl, she won a beauty contest and accepted being kept by a White Jewish American man for several years, and as an actress and model hoping to break into the business in Africa, because Hollywood is not enthusiastic about dark skinned women of African heritage, she became the mistress of another man.  She encountered women from France, from Turkey, from Italy, from all over, who were competing to be the favorite in harems of ultra-rich men like Osama - who she called Somi. Her story begs us to consider how much choice she had and how much choice anyone has.

Naima, as she called herself then, was dining out on a date in 1996 in Morocco. when Osama Bin Laden saw her and commanded her to be his.  What followed was six months of enduring and complying with his physically, emotionally, and psychologically sadistic behavior because she was afraid to be murdered. She met Satan. 

As a model and actress she was considered exotic because of her upbringing in the United States, yet was born to a mixed race couple who had been murdered over an incident in which her lesbian aunt was beaten. She was just a girl as she heard the screams and saw the bodies left on the grass and so being murdered was a very real possibility to her.  Rescued by a British couple, placed unsuccessfully with Arabic speakers in England who put her clothes out because she was too intelligent for a girl, she was then adopted by a Black family in the D.C. area who had four of their birth children and three other adoptees to love and care for.  She says she did not know how lucky she was to have a father who wanted her.

Though the first man she was mistress to - the White Jewish man - encouraged her writing and literary knowledge and encouraged her to identify herself as a writer, it was her connection to the terrorist that made her interesting to publishers. She waited out contracts with some because she knew she was not a bimbo. In her case the personal became political. She is an outspoken advocate for the dark skinned - African heritage woman all over the world and in The United States where she feels that rap music erased the progress of the 1960's and 1970's for Black Americans.

I hope I can do her justice in this review.  For she is formidable.
  
And I hope you will stick with me as I post about Kola Boof this month and the men she was kept by.

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NEW JET SET FLYS THROUGH DUBAI

VANITY FAIR - THE NEW JET SET - DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EMIRATES AIRBUS - AIRPORT  link her to the full informative article

by Graham Boynton   Photographs by Stephen Wilkes

 

EXCERPTS:

 

This is Dubai International Airport’s $4.5 billion Terminal 3, the exclusive province of Emirates airline. Covering nearly 18.5 million square feet, it is the largest air terminal on the planet. Dubai International also ranks alongside Singapore’s Changi, Hong Kong International, and Beijing Capital International as the most passenger-friendly. Every week from this airport’s Jetways, 130 international airlines operate more than 6,000 flights to some 260 destinations on every continent except Antarctica.

 

In January 2013, Dubai International opened Concourse A—aviation’s first facility dedicated entirely to Airbus A380 superjumbos. Located in Terminal 3, it is a magnificent building. Huge first- and business-class lounges connect directly to the A380 upper decks; economy-class passengers board from the lower level. The new concourse has already increased Dubai’s traffic to 75 million passengers a year, moving it past London’s Heathrow as the world’s busiest international airport. By 2018 that number is expected to pass 90 million, overtaking vast domestic hubs such as Atlanta and Beijing...

 

At the back of the upper-deck cabin, directly behind business class, is the pièce de résistance: a fully operative stand-up bar that has been the social hub on every Emirates A380 flight I have taken. To make space for this in-flight lounge, Emirates president Tim Clark says, he has had to sacrifice six premium seats, but declares, “It’s the most popular thing we’ve ever done. They have a real party down there.” On this flight a group of Italian contractors join two British couples around the bar soon after takeoff. And they’re all still there six hours later as the plane starts its descent. It is, indeed, some party...."

 

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Missy here!  Read this article.  If you haven't traveled by air in a while you may consider transferring through this airport just to see the architecture and soak in the vibe.  Just expect to be seated by class and ticket price on the airbus, and since each class boards separately, you probably won't have much luck sneaking into First Class to sit with royalty and the stars!

ARE YOU TELLING THE TRUTH?

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I DREAM OF JEANNIE : THE LADY IN THE BOTTLE HAS POWER BUT SAYS YES MASTER

This is an 1966 episode of the popular American Television show "I Dream of Jeannie" which pares a genii in a bottle with an astronaut.  Played by Barbara Eden, the character is magical and has power and yet lives around her Master.  The fantasy allowed a woman to live with a man who dates other women because, well, she isn't a real woman at all...


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A CLASSICAL WOMAN OF A HAREM

JILLIAN LAUREN READS ABOUT HER BUSINESS TRIP WITH THE PRINCE

  Hers is an interesting story, and if you listen to the end, you may find her conclusions surprising.

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YOU HAVE THREE WISHES...

ALO Hayati MIDDLE EASTERN MAGAZINE - THE MAN WITH FOUR WIVES

Spring 2010 of ALO Hayati nagazine had an article called A MAN WITH FOUR WIVES, which was told to Sam Stone by Marcus Raouf about a glamorous Kuwaiti millionaire, Majeed Abdal, who traveled the world for his London based company.

According to Raouf, described as his personal assistant who helped him deceive four women by keeping them apart, Abdal married a second woman, a Kuwaitii, because his first wife, an arranged marriage to another Kuwaitii, could not give him a son. That was in the 1990's. Since a man may marry four wives there, these two wives knew of each other and lived nearby each other. But then he married a woman in London and then a woman in Dallas, Texas, in 2002 and 2003. The Dallas woman did give him a son, and he had decided to settle with her, when he died at the age of 57, after 6 years of a grinding pace or, as the author says "grueling duplicity."

THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT IT IS OK TO MARRY FOUR WIVES so long as you CAN SUPPORT ALL OF THEM and THEY ALL KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER. PERMISSION TO DO SO FROM THE WIVES IS NOT NECESSARY.

Raouf considered it his duty to split Abdal's wealth four ways when he died.

MISTRESSHOOD BY THE HOUR - LEGAL - IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

You can link to the article by Nadya Labi here or get the magazine on the news-stand. the article is called MARRIED FOR A MINUTE and it is about temporary marriage - or religious prostitution, depending on how you see it. A man gets a temporary marriage contract with a woman even though he may be married. He can have more than one marriage at a time. For some women in their 40's or older, and widowed, this gives them a chance to have a partner for the purposes of sex, travel, and material advantage. ANY CHILDREN BORN IN A TEMPORARY LEGAL MARRIAGE are LEGITIMATE and must be supported by the father....

Nadya Labi is the author. This article appears in the current March/April 2010 MOTHER JONES magazine.