Posted on 03/15/2008 3:12:09 PM PDT by forkinsocket
A retired Kuwaiti superstar singer has recently the left the Gulf emirate for Afghanistan to join ranks with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in fighting foreign troops there, according to a press report published Saturday.
Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulf’s most famous pop stars, decided to join “his Mujahideen brothers in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight alongside his fellow Muslims in al-Qaeda”, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Saturday.
Al-Ahmad has previously told Kuwait’s Al-Rai TV that the reason he decided to quit singing was “a dream” where he saw his “own journey from this world into the hereafter through death”.
“I’ve seen horrors and terrors I don’t think anybody else has. I thanked Allah for being alive when I woke up and I was grateful for the fact that He has given me a second chance,” the retired singer said.
“I then informed my family and friends that I would retire from the dark world of sin (singing). Since then, my job has been to warn against arts and their sinful atmosphere.”
The retired singer will soon appear in his new military outfit in Afghanistan, in a video expected soon on a website known to be affiliated with al-Qaeda extremists, according to the paper.
Do you think he’ll do a cover of “Another One Bites the Dust?”
He looks almost as crazy as Britney Spears.
Another target..
Maybe he’ll team up with Yousef Islam. /sarcasm
I guess his audition for The Surreal Life didn’t go well.
or that song “She dropped the bomb on me”
And the hits just keep on coming...
Boy, you wanna sing the blues, you gotta earn it.
WEll whaddayouknow.. AQ has its’ own USO.
Simon Cowell must have been terrible to him when he auditioned for Kuwaiti Idol.
"I see a bad moon a'risin'..
I see troubles on the way!"
Hey, may as well entertain his fellow mooj with CCR covers...
Rule #20: If your name is Hussein al-Ahmad, you can't sing the blues no matter how many men you shot in Memphis.
Somehow I remember us liberating his homeland only just a few years ago.
Thats ok. We’ve got Democrats. They’ve got guys like this. Same diff.
A convert to Islam, he now answers only to his newly adopted Islamic name, “Cat Stevens”.
Either that. Or he could join Rev. Wright’s church over here in the U.S. of KKK and sing in the choir.
Rule #20: If your name is Hussein al-Ahmad, you can’t sing the blues no matter how many men you shot in Memphis.
“Born under an Abahd sign, I been down since I began to crawl...”
As long as it’s kept in mind that ALL retiring Kuwati pop stars don’t join al-Queda. Some want peace!
Pop star?
Guess he’s a boom star now.
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