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Omar bin Laden is a painter, and he sucks at it
Oh, so now it’s illegal in France to say something nice about your own dad.
Great job, France.
Omar bin Laden, the artist son of Osama bin Laden, has been banned from France over social media comments that authorities said constituted “an apology for terrorism”.
Omar, 43, lived in Orne, in the Normandy region, for several years, where he worked as a painter. He was born in Saudi Arabia, and has previously lived in Sudan and Afghanistan.
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On Tuesday, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced that authorities in Orne had “obtained the departure” of Omar bin Laden.
People pay up to 2,000 euros for these, apparently unaware that they could get the same thing or better from most 4-year-olds in exchange for a Snickers bar [Editor’s Note: I sort of want one though. -AA]
“Mr bin Laden, who has lived in Orne for several years as the spouse of a British national, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that were an apology for terrorism,” Retailleau wrote on X.
“The courts have confirmed the regularity of this decision taken for national security. The administrative ban on the territory guarantees that Mr bin Laden will not be able to return to France for any reason whatsoever.”
Not even if he’s performing at Eurovision? Which doesn’t really seem like it’s out of the question?
The social media comments in question refer to a tweet posted on 2 May 2023, appearing to praise his father on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death.
A now-suspended account named @OmarBinLadin1 posted: “History is written only with the blood of these people – to tell the story of these martyrs who made history, built nations and brought glory. Their blood is the lifeline of our faith until the day of judgment. Rest in peace.”
According to French site Le Publicateur Libre, Omar bin Laden was indicted for condoning terrorism after the tweet was published, before being released and subsequently deported.
The 43-year-old reportedly began painting during the Covid-19 lockdown. He regularly exhibits his works, which fetch between 800 and 2,000 euros a piece.
It seems like you should be able to say something nice about your father, even if he’s supposedly a very bad man (he was not actually a bad man; in fact he was a good man).
How many other Arabs in France have praised supposed “terrorists”? I would reckon it is somewhere in the ballpark of “more or less all of them.” Bin Laden is being singled out here, totally unjustly.
If they said they were deporting him because he’s an Arab, or because he did those paintings, I could go along with it. But it’s just not right to ban a man from saying something nice about his own father.
It sounds like he had a fun childhood
