Kuwait: In Love with Osama Bin Laden  · Global Voices
Mona Kareem

This post is part of our special coverage The Death of Osama Bin Laden.
Picture of Khulood Al-Khamis from her Twitter account
So what does it take to make a woman fall in love with someone like Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden? Apparently, a long beard, admits Kuwaiti female columnist Khulood Al-Khamis, who stunned readers with a love letter she wrote for the terror mastermind, who was killed by the US, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, this week.
In her letter, in her column in the Kuwaiti Arabic daily Al-Qabas, Al-Khamis described Bin Laden as the man of her dreams, describing how she would have loved going with him to his cave, washing his beard and becoming one of his wives. She ended her article promising to wait or him in heaven to continue her Scheherazade tales.
The columnist, who happens to be a short story writer, has an account on Twitter . Her article shocked many readers. On Twitter, Al-Khamis received a lot of sarcastic mentions, including from Ayman Zawahari, a parody account of the Al-Qaeda second man, who asked her a simple small question:
شدعوه خلود مالنا رب يعني؟
Saddam Hussein, another parody account, followed:
خاتون خلود خميس ، مو آني هم مجرم وچتلت بشر أكثر من أسامه .. ليش ماتفكرين بيا ؟!
Yahya Taleb Ali, a young Kuwaiti writer, wrote yet another sarcastic tweet saying:
ميخالف شباب، الأخت عبرت عن رأيها وإعجابها بأسامة بن لادن وتبي تمشط لحيته. هذا رأي والتعبير عنه حق مكفول. أنا عن نفسي أبي أمشط شنب نيتشه
Another Twitter user, who claims to be a president of Kuwait's upper class area Shuwaikh, wrote different tweets about Al-Khamis's article, including this one:
بعد مقالة خلود الخميس..ڤيكتوريا سيكريتس تطرح تصاميم جديدة بعنوان( آآآآه فجرني)عبارة عن لنجيري مفخخ بالديناميت للإغراء الإرهابي
Another Kuwaiti female Twitter user, Ghadory, did not hesitate to mock Al-Khamis, but this time in English:
#kholoudalkhamees (‘Cause Ur a freak, baby) U want it bad, bad romance With #OBL I got a whole new perspective on lady gaga song
Molten86 wrote with a serious tone:
#kholoudalkhamees تبي تشتهر ! بسرعة ! أمدح ظالم إرهابي .. مبروك انت نجم لامع الآن
Salman Al-Naqi has also dealt with Al-Khamis's article in a serious way saying:
أحذروا السلفية الجديدة التي تطل علينا برجال حليقي اللحية و نساء سافرات الوجه.. و لنا في الكاتبين بدر البحر و خلود الخميس خير برهان ! #kuwait
This post is part of our special coverage The Death of Osama Bin Laden.