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Carmen bin Ladin
I just read Carmen bin Ladin's memoirs about living in Saudi Arabia called 'Inside the Kingdom'. For those of you who havent heard of her, she is Osama's sister in law. Osamas father, Sheikh Muhammad bin Ladin had 21 wives and 54 children, Osama and Carmen's husband Yeslam are half brothers.
The bin Ladin fame did not start with Osama. Although you all only associate bin Ladin with Osama, the middle east has known them to be the premier construction family, who pushed Saudi into modernism and the 21st century in the way of skyscrapers and roads (not in mentality) and they even renovated the Harm Sharif (Kaaba-great mosque).
The way she describes saudi arabia is pretty accurate, unfortunately. She portrays them as narrow minded wahabbi mysoginists, which essentially they are. However, it bothers me to see her so turned off from Islam in general, unfortunately, because of her experience in Saudi.
There are no riveting moments in the book, but if you really want to know what life was like in Saudi in the 70s and 80s and what the true Saudi mentality is, read this book.
Interesting trivia, Carmen and her 3 daughters all kept the bin Ladin last name, as an honor to their heritage. Wafa bin Ladin went to Columbia and wants to be a pop singer, under the name of Wafa Darfour. I hope her idiot uncle goes into spazz.
The bin Ladin fame did not start with Osama. Although you all only associate bin Ladin with Osama, the middle east has known them to be the premier construction family, who pushed Saudi into modernism and the 21st century in the way of skyscrapers and roads (not in mentality) and they even renovated the Harm Sharif (Kaaba-great mosque).
The way she describes saudi arabia is pretty accurate, unfortunately. She portrays them as narrow minded wahabbi mysoginists, which essentially they are. However, it bothers me to see her so turned off from Islam in general, unfortunately, because of her experience in Saudi.
There are no riveting moments in the book, but if you really want to know what life was like in Saudi in the 70s and 80s and what the true Saudi mentality is, read this book.
Interesting trivia, Carmen and her 3 daughters all kept the bin Ladin last name, as an honor to their heritage. Wafa bin Ladin went to Columbia and wants to be a pop singer, under the name of Wafa Darfour. I hope her idiot uncle goes into spazz.
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