Top tip for US Intelligence service operatives still hunting for Bin Laden...

[metalman]

Categories & Rules

Osama competing in the "Natural Full Beard" category :-P


Gallery of past winners

[metalman]

photo Oct. 29, 2004 and today's photo

Osama has dyed and trimed his beard for the competition. Still wearing the same clothes though!

“ol’ Graybeard” ..... "Rejected!"

Suggestion, OBL left his "Just For Men" beard coloring in too long.
Looks like he's becoming a "girly man". Walt Frazier is aghast.
What next ...  botox and collagen injections?



Thought shaving beards and dyed black hair was haram?

Militants target barbers

The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam
If a man is of a very advanced age, with white hair and beard, it would hardly be appropriate for him to use black dye.

The best thing with which to dye gray hair is henna and katm. (Mentioned in Fath al-Bari.) Henna makes the hair red, while katm, a plant from Yemen, colors it black tinged with red. Said Anas, "Abu Bakr dyed his hair with henna and katm, and 'Umar dyed it with henna only." "

[metalman]

Karlos wrote:
You'd expect someone of such self-claimed religious authority to observe such minuitae fastidiously, especially given that he's had that gray beard for a long time.

"Some Muslim scholars consider the use of black hair dye as permissible during time of war, when the enemy might be impressed by the fact that the soldiers of the Muslim army look young."

We're suppost to be trembling at the sight OBL with his new black beard, not laughing at him.

Karlos wrote:
I'll be honest, even taking into account the blurred, grainy image quality, I don't think the recent image bears more than a superficial resemblence, except perhaps for the nose.

His face looks very puffy. Too much formaldehyde?
 
Changed to the "Garibaldi style" beard for the competition.

The area at the corners of his mouth where the mustache meets the beard is oddly different now than his 2004 photo.

Karlos wrote:
However, the new image is the spitting image of a local shopkeeper.

 :lol:

Work at a bookstore?  

OBL has developed and interest in books by Noam Chomsky, and on the subjects of global warming, and US tax policy.