Check out the
January GQ.
There, spread on satin sheets, wearing little more than strappy sandals and some feathers is the aspiring pop star
Wafah Dufour.
Why should we care?
Before she took on her mother’s maiden name, Dufour went by her birth name, Binladin. As in Osama bin Laden, her uncle.
“Everyone relates me to that man, and I have nothing to do with him,” moans Dufour, the daughter of Osama’s half-brother.
Yeslam Binladin, who received Swiss citizenship in 2001, has condemned Osama and intentionally spells his name differently from his half-brother. Yeslam and Osama are among 54 children of the late Saudi construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and his 22 wives.
Still, the connection was enough to land Dufour a several-page spread and an interview in which she says that she would not date a fundamentalist Muslim and that she cried hysterically when she witnessed the attacks on New York while staying with her mother in Geneva.
Dufour says she has no contact with her father, doesn’t speak Arabic, and has an American passport.
“At the end of the day, I believe that the American people understand things and they have compassion,” she says. “They’re very fair, and that’s why I love America.”