# Message from Osama bin Laden **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260 "2001-09-22T23:34:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/1 "2001-09-22T23:34:39Z")
Cus! Telhasi teezi Ja-hosh! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/2 "2001-09-22T23:35:18Z")
Gesundheit. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/3 "2001-09-22T23:38:41Z")
If you read it backwards it says “Satan is Lord”. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/4 "2001-09-22T23:46:00Z")
Well, **grienspace**? Did you manage to clear that thing out of your throat? Seriously, though, does anyone around here know enough Arabic to translate this? I’m assuming it’s Arabic, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/5 "2001-09-22T23:50:46Z")
Copy and paste his epithets into Google, without quotation marks, and you’ll know what they mean without even following any of the links that come up! ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/6 "2001-09-22T23:55:49Z")
This is a message FROM Bin Laden? Why do we need to see this shit? What is the purpose of this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/7 "2001-09-22T23:57:44Z")
Ah. I see, **Bob**. Interesting. I wonder if there is an Arabic word for “felching.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/8 "2001-09-23T03:15:44Z")
Google: “Did you mean: Cus! Telhami tezi Ja-hosh!” Damned if I know. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/9 "2001-09-23T04:39:54Z")
Google. C & P “Telhasi teezi Ja-hosh” Hit #1. [http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Arabic.html](http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Arabic.html) CUS FUCK YOU telhasi teezi lick my ass ja-hosh jackass ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/10 "2001-09-23T04:42:10Z")
So does this mean that Grieny is channeling Binny? ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/11 "2001-09-23T04:45:05Z")
[Comic Book Guy] Worst rant _ever_. [/Comic Book Guy] ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-from-osama-bin-laden/83260/12 "2001-09-23T05:03:59Z")
Does Osama bin Laden speak Farsi? If so, there’s a gem from [a column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_238.html) Unca Cecil wrote. _Bi damaghi babat rydam_, “I shit on your father’s nose,” Farsi (Iran). Also: _Guz bi rishit_, “May a fart be on your beard.”