[MudGrrl]

Bin Laden likes to be hugged, not kissed

"Australia's "Jihad Jack", convicted of receiving funds from al-Qaeda, says Osama Bin Laden does not like being kissed but is happy to be hugged.
Joseph "Jack" Thomas, who met Bin Laden three times in Afghanistan, discussed the al-Qaeda leader's preferences in an interview broadcast after his trial.

Thomas, 32, also said his own love of beer had made his conversion to Islam, which bans alcohol, a dilemma.

Thomas is still to be sentenced but his lawyers say he plans to appeal.

An interview with Thomas was shown on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners programme on Monday and other details have also been published in The Age.

"I never really thought I'd be a Muslim," he told ABC. "I'd say, 'Oh look, you know, I really love your religion but I really love my beer'"."

 

[valve bouncer]

"I never really thought I'd be a Muslim," he told ABC. "I'd say, 'Oh look, you know, I really love your religion but I really love my beer'"."

Some of the Pakistani blokes I know here are mad drinkers. I asked one bloke about it one day and he said when they're overseas they feel a bit freer about doing things that would get them in trouble back home, drinking, chasing girls etc. One guy told me he hated Ramadan because it meant he couldn't have a beer until the sun went down. That made me laugh.

 

[MudGrrl]

I know someone who's birthday is during Ramadan... she doesn't drink during Ramadan... but drinks any other day.........

 

[particle bored]

in the middle east, there is no "official" ban on mixing religion and government, which explains the "out of sight, out of mind" attitude of the drinking Pakkis.