Why have the mods let Osama bin Laden get away for so long?

Sorry, I just wanted my own bin Laden thread.

Well, not a single one of his posts on the Straight Dope Message Boards ever violated any of our rules.

He was clearly a troll.

Haha, thanks for the laugh..but you now owe me a new keyboard.

What? Declaring a fatwa on his Celebrity Death Pool picks every year wasn’t being a jerk?

Hey, he was only responding to the challenge of the other posters. Don’t blame Bin!

He turned every thread into the Osama Show!

LOL!

Trolling is NOT funny!

but this thread is hillarious

I think being disqualified from the Celebrity Death Pool was enough. Last I checked, declaring a fatwa wasn’t a banning offence.

Mods - could we get a ruling on this?

I wonder if Maus Magill is aware of what a fatwa really is, when he asked the mods for a ruling. I find it cheerily ironic.

A thin-wa is one that diets, so a fat-wa is one that … doesn’t.

And a vicious-wa is a mean soup.

I thought the mods had their own forum/email loop that is invisible to regular members. How do we know they didn’t let Osama get away? I say, until we see the long forum there’s no way to tell how much they were involved.

bin Laden was at one point interested in joining the board. He was put off by some of Der Trihs’s comments about the United States, which he found “too extreme.”

Here is why this message board needs a “like” button.

Perhaps 'ol binny Lad was uncomfortable with our large numbers of christians and atheists and our lack of jihadists?? :smiley:

Threadspotting!

And Jews! Don’t forget us Zionist infidels, both from the Great Satan and the Lesser Satan. (Or was Israel the Little Satan? I want to get this right).

Satan was a great moderator. Bit of a meltdown IIRC, but great in the day.