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November 24, 2005
Bahrain: Michael Jackson To Build Mosque After Incident In Ladies' Lavatory
The freakish-looking and androgynous Michael Jackson (pictured), who used to look like a nice black kid before he opted for facial disfigurement, is now living in Bahrain. He recently bought a house there in Manama, in the Anwaj islands.
The pop icon, who used to make good music, has now decided to fund the building of a mosque in Bahrain, states the Khaleej Times. The mosque is intended to be a learning center for the principles and teachings of Islam, and also it will be used to teach the English language. Jackson intends to supervise the language teachers who will be brought from the US.
The gesture, states the Khaleej Times, is an act of appreciation to the Bahraini people who "welcomed him and treated him as if he was one of the citizens of their country".
It apparently has nothing to do with putting on a pious front after the embarrassing incident earlier reported in the Khaleej Times, where Jackson was caught hanging out in a ladies' lavatory and wearing a woman's head-covering. WOTP News states that the original article claimed that a local woman, named as Latifa M, went into the women's lavatory in a shopping mall, and found Jackson in front of a mirror, "touching up his make-up". (Not a child, then. Phew!) When Latifa M. found that the person at the mirror was a man, she screamed and ran out.
Not wanting to miss an opportunity, she then returned, and started to take photographs with her cellphone camera. This led to a squabble, like one of the ones from Dynasty, resulting in Jackson chasing her, demanding the pictures, and Latifa demanding blackmail money.
When the police arrived, the pictures were "erased". A member of the Dubai Police Department said he assumed Jackson was in the ladies restroom because of an accident. (No mention of wads of money being pressed into grubby palms, then).
The current issue of Khaleej Times states that Jackson's brother Germaine, who converted to Islam in the 1990s, has said that Michael Jackson has a "great interest and study of Islamic books, the tolerance of Islam". The article does not mention Jackson's opinion about the Prophet's marriage to a nine-year old child.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 24, 2005 12:45 AM
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