So, you "hate" America? Please tell me that was either a typo or a joke that I'm not getting. Otherwise, funny piece!

geeze, people don't seem to be able to read any nuance

it was a joke... Osama Hates America...

ah forget it, if we have to explain it

I can see it now. Matt Drudge reporting that Salon.com boasts "We hate America..."!

I'm not even going to try to remember her name but I cought the peice with Barbara Wlaters on 20/20 a few months back. She's trying to make it as a singer and Barb asked Ms. Not Bin Laden to sing a few bars and she broke out with a few lines of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car". Holy crap, what a clueless talentless bimbo. The multimillionare neice of a mass murderer singing a populist anthem.

If there is a law that keeps murderers from profiting off of their crimes, can't we find a way to extrapolate it to include relatives of criminals and the media makers who keeps shoving talentless famewhores down out throats? Truly tasteless.

I was disturbed by your last sentence, "I hate America as much as the next guy." Please tell me that this was a slip of the keyboard and not the noun you intended to use. Statements like the above feed right into the rightwing propaganda machine, claiming that anyone who dissents from this government's policies is an "America-hater" and unpatriotic. I myself hate the way we are being governed at the moment, but that isn't the equivalent of hating the country. I love America -- that's why I'm working(along with millions of others)to change the way it's being governed.

I hate that GQ has glorified Osama's niece in every way. To place this woman, who appears to not even be talented, in GQ shows GQ lacks responsibility and has absolutely no understanding of the great harm caused to humanity by bin-Laden. It just adds all kind of salt to the wound of being lied to about WMDs and the awful invasion of Iraq.

I wonder if Osama is laughing at "stupid americans". Maybe men will like this stunt but I hope they think with the "head" on their shoulders and reject the underlying message and reject this issue. People have died senseless deaths because of Osama. How can they have sympathy for this woman when there are so many many many many other women who deserve the spotlight? How ludicrous!

She claims to not want to take advantage of her name. Who believes that? She is not the direct cause of Osama's crimes, but she has bloodlines to him and it is naive to think she is disloyal to her family. Why are they promoting her????

GQ does not realize that many people will see that they are making light of the crimes Osama has created. I realize this is just a magazine and "just hollywood" or whatever, but GQ has no class. Being a woman, I don't read GQ, but the media is lapping this up like wine. It's actually sureal and disgusting.

Maybe Wafah can do a photo spread with Bush's niece.

You know what, anonymous? Get over it. You and everybody else like you. We live in the richest country in the world, and we live in one of the safest countries in the world. Furthermore, in the past 50 years or so, we have experienced historically unprecedented levels of material comfort and safety. So enough already. The 9/11 attacks were really bad, and shocking, and scary. But. It is time to start acting like adults again. She's his half-neice, for Christ's sake, born and raised in America, and trying to be a pop star, no less. I sure as hell don't know all my half-neices, and I wouldn't expect them to be arrested if I knocked over a 7-11. So drop it. Relax. Get a grip on yourself. Stop acting like every tiny action by every person or organiation in the world has an enormous effect on terrorism. As Ms. Dafour says in the article you probably didn't read “At the end of the day, I believe that the American people understand things and they have compassion and they see what’s fair,” she says. “They’re very fair, and that’s why I love America, and that’s why my mom loves America.” Start acting fair.

We've known for years that most of Bin Laden's family shuns him, wants nothing to do with his politics.

Keep in mind much of the Ben Laden family is old oil buddies with the Bush family. If cavorting with a Ben Laden is offensive, better criticize the Bushes before you go cracking on a magazine (neutrally) reporting.

I find it hard to believe you would conclude your little blurb with "We hate America as much as the next guy, but even we're having a hard time getting our minds around that one." I don't subscribe to Salon because I hate America. You should save you self-defeating rhetoric for your close friends and family rather than give your political opponents a stick with which to beat you about the head.

And I thought it was just the male half they had problems with.

and considering how women who don't toe the line are treated in the type of society that Osama is promoting it seems very likely that her objections to him and his program are entirely sincere.

No, they did not really mean the "hate America"...it's called sarcasm people...sheesh!

As for Ms. Dufour...who cares? Half the wealthy people in Saudi Arabia are probably related to Bin Laden...we shouldn't hold that against her anymore than I want to be held accountable for the racist, sexist comments that come out of my grandfathers mouth on a daily basis. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose...but you can't pick your family. And what else is a talentless, wealthy, vacuous young woman to do with herself if not try to be a pop star? Has Paris Hilton come up with anything else to do yet?

Her last name is clearly a blessing and a curse, but let's let the poor girl try to grab her 15 minutes and be done with it!