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Bin Laden to Kill Britney Spears?

Posted on: September 14, 2007 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily reports:

"If I meet these whores I will have the honor - I repeat, I will have the honor - to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam," said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.

Okay, okay, it's a little late to try and get on my good side now. But that's a good start. You would have had me at Celine Dion.

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"First one"? How many times can can one cut off someone's head?

Posted by: justawriter | September 14, 2007 9:53 AM

There you have it... anyone that takes Madonna or Britney Spears this seriously is obviously unhinged.

Posted by: sandman | September 14, 2007 10:19 AM

Not classy at all. Basically you are saying because you dislike these celebrities, you don't mind having people talk about dismembering them.

What makes it even less classy is the fact that all of these celebrities are female as well, and you add another female celebrity to the list.

I'm sorry man, usually I like your commentary, but this post is just sick and wrong.

Posted by: anon | September 14, 2007 10:21 AM

Oh, give me a break! Assuming this is true, where is this scruffy nobody going to "meet" Britney Spears and Madonna in the land of forced marriages? Madonna in particular would cut his nuts off. Wassamatter, hacking off the heads of ordinary women doesn't cut it with these fanatics anymore? He's nothing but another pathetic celebrity hangers-on, but with delusions of Islamist grandeur thrown into the sick mix. Doesn't want to meet any nice Islamist girls? Maybe having normal human relationships isn't exciting to an impotent, twisted, pathetic nobody.

Justawriter, what the dork means is, they hack at the victim until the head falls off. He's not talking about one clean, painless cut. This is not civilized people we're talking about. They don't know how to be real men and make love to women.

Total fucking losers living in a fantasy world. That's what serial killers are. How American after all.

Posted by: Kristine | September 14, 2007 10:40 AM

I dunno Ed, I hear Ayman Zawahiri really likes to rock out to Love Can Move Mountains in the cave.

anon -

Take a chill pill. Its obviously a joke at the expense of Muhammad Abdel-Al, another kind of joke.

Posted by: Dave S. | September 14, 2007 10:49 AM

Kristine - Remind me not to EVER cross you.

Excellent commentary BTW, and You Go Girl!

Posted by: J-Dog | September 14, 2007 10:51 AM

justawriter: "'First one'? How many times can can one cut off someone's head?"

Oh, I dunno. If they are really Satanists, they I'm sure they can conjure up some magic to make their heads grow back. :p

Posted by: J. J. Ramsey | September 14, 2007 12:37 PM

I have to agree with anon. Cheering for the deaths of innocent people? Not cool, even if you didn't really mean it.

Besides, I like Madonna...

Posted by: Brandon | September 14, 2007 12:58 PM

For crying out loud, I'm not cheering for anyone's death. I'm joking about cheering for someone's death. There is a difference, folks.

Posted by: Ed Brayton | September 14, 2007 1:01 PM

Alright, sorry. Sarcasm doesn't translate too well online.

Posted by: Brandon | September 14, 2007 1:02 PM

Oh, come on! It's just one of Ed's "jokes".

Posted by: Disport | September 14, 2007 1:17 PM

Disport is just another idiot who changes names constantly to leave these stupid little insults. Interestingly, he's doing so from a government address, a government computer in South Carolina. Time to ban that IP, I think.

Posted by: Ed Brayton | September 14, 2007 2:06 PM

Kristine - Remind me not to EVER cross you.

All I ever needed to know about handling terrorists I learned from Madonna! Look out, Muhammad Abdel-Al, Brillo Face!

Rent this film, and hear the account (from the stalker, which is even more funny) of how she slaps down a totally creepy, lovesick stalker: "Get away from me you fat f---er! You're sick!" :-D

Come to think of it Ed, let's sick Madonna on Celine. You'd rather see that, right? I would.

Posted by: Kristine | September 14, 2007 5:15 PM

Kristine-

Frankly, I'd just like to see Madonna go away. And take her kaballah water with her.

Posted by: Ed Brayton | September 14, 2007 6:42 PM

Justawriter:

"First one"? How many times can can one cut off someone's head?

Perhaps he is working on the assumption that they are hydra and their heads will grow back after being severed. This is not a position I am willing to reject out of hand.

Posted by: James | September 15, 2007 1:08 AM

Disport is just another idiot who changes names constantly to leave these stupid little insults. Interestingly, he's doing so from a government address, a government computer in South Carolina. Time to ban that IP, I think.

Better yet, report him.

Posted by: khan | September 15, 2007 10:41 AM

So, the next time Fox News criticises Madonna or Britney, can we say they're on the same side as Al Qaida?

It's a logical as their "bin Laden criticises Bush. Democrats criticise Bush therefore Democrats support bin Laden" argument.

Posted by: Ian Gould | September 16, 2007 8:45 AM

Time to ban that IP, I think.

And report it to the State of S. Carolina.

As for Madonna. Yeah, she can be annoying as hell. But "Confessions on a Dance Floor" was a complete shout out to us gay boys who've been supporting her for years, and a pretty damned fun album.

Now, as for Celine...

Posted by: MAJeff | September 16, 2007 8:50 AM