18. Osama bin Laden Was a Big Mr. Bean Fan
Although he decried the infidel West and its corrupting cultural influence upon Islam and Muslims, the world’s leading Islamic Jihadist partook of Western. On bin Laden’s personal laptop was an eclectic collection of saved videos. Unsurprisingly, they included plenty of gory stuff, such as beheadings – what self-respecting Islamic jihadist wouldn’t have some of those? Surprisingly, they also included British slapstick comedy. As it turns out, bin Laden was a big fan of Rowan Atkinson, as evinced by the numerous episodes of Mr. Bean and Wallace and Gromit that were discovered on his hard drive.
Even more surprising, the terror mastermind had a thing for crotcheting – probably as good a way as any to pass the time while in hiding. Recovered from his laptop were 30 how-to-crotchet tutorial videos, including one for how to crotchet an iPod sock. And in a surprisingly not surprising twist, the man whose network tortured and killed people for smoking, drinking, dancing, or watching media depicting women not covered up in burkas, had porn saved in his laptop. Turns out that bin Laden was just as hypocritical as most of those who bray the loudest about the licentiousness of the modern age.
