Osama Bin Laden’s Black mistress
Kola Boof is all over TV promoting her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl. This Egyptian-Sudanese-American is an award-winning novelist, poet, and activist. But, unsurprisingly, her relationship with Osama Bin Laden is all anyone wants to talk about.
Kola writes about it in dramatic and thrilling detail. And she might mislead you to think her relationship with Osama played out the way Laura’s with Luke did. Kola is also a television writer. So the allusion to General Hospital might’ve been subconscious.
Except that, for the more initiated, the title of her autobiography is a dead giveaway. After all, it’s the same as the 1929 silent film, Diary of a Lost Girl. That suggests Kola thinks she has more in common with Thymian than Laura. Thymian is the main character in that film. And she becomes lost after Meinert rapes her. Oops.
No more spoilers, even by allusions, I promise. Except that, with all due respect to Laura and Thymian, the real-life character Patty Hearst comes to mind. After all, Kola’s autobiography reads far more like American Heiress. That, of course, is the biography of poor little rich girl Patty Hearst.
Kola insinuates that Stockholm Syndrome explains her becoming Osama’s mistress and accomplice. But that might seem no more credible than Patty’s explanation for remaining with her Symbionese captors.
Why Kola’s incredible story is so believable
Her story is so sadomasochistic; it has to be true. Besides, its socially-redeeming tidbits appeal to my prurient intellect.
Kola reveals, for example, that Osama, the Muslim zealot, is a raging hypocrite. He preached and demanded moral rectitude and asceticism (even self-sacrifice) from his followers. Yet he indulged in many of the Western vices he preached against.
Of course, avenging American bombs left Osama little choice but to become a cave-dwelling ascetic. But Kola knew him before that. And she describes him in convincing detail as a profanity-shouting, rock-loving, pot-smoking sex fiend. And that was on his holy days.
He might strike you as the Muslim version of Christian hypocrites like Jimmy Swaggart. But Osama comes across more like a Southern slavemaster. That is, those who would shun their lily-white wives for more gratifying sex with their Black slaves. After all, Black Kola had Osama shunning his puritanical Arab wives for more exotic sex with her.
It turns out Osama was obsessed with the sexual prowess of Black women. As Kola tells it, his obsession even caused him to plan a fatwa (i.e., an assassination) to take out Bobby Brown. Osama wanted to whisk his wife, Whitney Houston, off to his Sudanese mansion. And he already had it furnished with opulence that would make Queen Nefertiti blush.
To be fair to Osama, however, this was all before Whitney withered before our eyes. After all, almost overnight, she went from looking like an angelic beauty to looking like a crack-smoking skank.
One wonders if this self-styled Caliph, known for his hatred of Jews, recognized that he was attempting the diabolical scheme Jewish King David perfected. After all, David infamously ordered Uriah to certain death in battle. And he did this to have his way with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba.
I could go on, but that would defeat the purpose of having you buy the book.
Her critics
Except that, I’d be remiss not to address her critics. You’ve undoubtedly seen men all over TV waxing expertly on bin Laden’s character, motives, and personal life. And they always speak with intimate knowledge, so much so that they came across like his spurned lovers.
The glib Peter Bergen stands out among them. But here’s how Kola dismissed his putative expertise in a recent interview:
BRUCE DUNNE: Peter Bergen, a biographer of Bin Laden, has called you delusional. He says that Osama Bin Laden was never in Morocco in 1996–in fact, I believe he claims that Bin Laden has never been to Morocco period.
KOLA BOOF: Peter Bergen doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about, but I’m sure that the media would take the word of a white man who’s never met Osama against the word of a Black woman who used to share his bed.
In other words, who you gonna believe: Osama’s biographer Bergen or his lover Boof? I believe Boof. But you can read more on their I-know-him-better-than-you spat here.
But that interview stands out. That’s because prissy-talking Barbies have conducted most of them. And they invariably seem more interested in demeaning Kola as a whore or Osama’s sex slave than in interviewing her about her life.
It hardly matters that Kola promotes herself as an accomplished poet and bestselling novelist. She just happened to have been coerced into a relationship with the world’s most notorious terrorist.
Kola’s story reminds me of the many commentaries I’ve written on Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Like Ali, Kola describes herself as a Muslim feminist and liberal democrat. And she, too, is unabashed in her commitment to modernizing the jihadist, misogynistic, and racist tenets of Islam.
Finally, you might doubt her bedroom tales about being Bin Laden’s mistress. But there’s no doubt about Kola procuring arms from Israel for Black Sudanese rebels.
These Africans are still trying to defend themselves against genocidal attacks. Arab militias have been perpetrating them for years in the Darfur region of Sudan. Her role in their struggle makes her even more heroic than Bin Laden could ever be to Muslim jihadists.
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