Cheer Up Mothers, No More Bin Ladens

Mother’s Day is around. This year’s Mother’s Day has greeted them with a cheerful mood, proclaiming the whole world the value of affectionate motherhood which the hunted man of recent history could never taste. He and his merciless men killed thousands of men, women and children, throwing millions in perennial tears. Filled with the poison of hatred and vengeance, Osama bin Laden and his organization waged on a cruel war of terrorism, threatening the whole world everyday with various attacks.

A rare heart that could never understand the love of a mother

Osama bin Laden was the son of a Yemen born billionaire, who built a business empire based in Saudi Arabia and his mother Hamida was the tenth wife of his father. She was a Syrian girl of 22 years when she caught Osama’s father Mohammed’s fancy late in his life. With all pleasures of life, his family grew up in a privileged world.

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An orthodox family that lacked affection

Mohammed bin Laden, Osama’s father, belonged to a family of polygamous oligarchy. He was a phenomenally successful construction entrepreneur, an immigrant to Saudi Arabia who developed close ties with the royal family of Saudi. He enjoyed full advantage of the indulgences permitted wealthy and powerful men under Islamic law, including changing wives. He had 54 children, more or less, born of 10 or 11 wives and one can imagine the situation in which was born Osama.

“Son of a slave”

Osama’s mother Hamida had lived a relatively modern lifestyle in Syria, including shopping trips to Damascus. She had an independent life earlier and had to struggle for her life within the confined compound of bin Laden. She was not an Islamic fundamentalist like others in the family and she was instead a sophisticated and well- traveled woman who favored Chanel suits. She never liked covering her face with a burka, and was scorned by the other wives and ex-wives of his father. By the time Osama was born, she was hated by the other women who referred to her as “the slave,” and called her son Osama, “son of a slave.”