16. A Terrorist Leader’s Crocheting Habit
For all his decrying of the infidel West and its corrupting cultural influence upon Islam and Muslims, Osama bin Laden liked to partake of Western culture. On his personal laptop was an eclectic collection of saved videos. Unsurprisingly, they included quite a bit of the gory stuff, such as beheadings. 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 that were discovered in his hard drive.
Even more surprising, the terror mastermind liked crocheting – a habit that was 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. In a surprisingly not surprising twist, the man whose network tortured and ended people for smoking, drinking, dancing, or watching media depicting women not covered up in burkas, had explicit adult videos saved on 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.
