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Kola Boof
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[[Image:Kola Boof Heathrow Airport.JPG|thumb|Kola Boof at [[Heathrow Airport]] 1998]]
'''Kola Boof''' (Born '''Naima Bint Harith''', [[March 3]], [[1972]]) is an [[American]] [[writer]], [[feminist]] and black [[activist]] best known for her [[1996]] [[sex|sexual relationship]] with [[terrorist]] [[Osama bin Laden]].

==Biography==

====Early years====
(contracted; show full)27;'[[Flesh and the Devil]]'', published in Arabic in [[1995]]. It was followed by ''[[Every Little Bit Hurts]]'', a [[1997]] collection of her poetry, much of it criticizing the Muslim world.   Since then she has claimed that she's received [[death threat|death threats]] from several Islamists, including Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad {{fact}} and a [[fatwa]] death sentence by a sharia court in [[Khartoum]], Sudan. Sudanese officials denied through [[The New York Times]]
  that a fatwa was ever ordered on Boof. [http://www.boingboing.net/2002/12/11/kola_boof_net_person.html] Supposedly in [[April]] [[2003]], a report on the floor of the [[United Nations]] confirmed that there was aBoof later tried to justify her previous comments: "On Sept. 15th, 2002...a Sudanese diplomat, Gamal Ibrahim wrote an article in London's leading Arab-Muslim newspaper condemning me as a human being... it is unheard of for a woman, and especially a non-muslim woman, to be featwa on the woman. [http://kolapress.1colony.com/ured in a political Arab-Muslim newspaper...unless she's a target of some kind." [http://www.nathanielturner.com/whoiskolaboof.htm]

On [[December 31]], [[2002]], Boof's publisher Russom Damba's [[printing press]] was [[firebombing|firebombed]] by radical Muslim youths, known as "Dragons of Jihad". He subsequently dropped Kola Boof from his publishing company. [http://www.rootzreggae.com/Rootz-view/KolaBoof.htm]

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(contracted; show full)==External links==
*[http://www.kolaboof.com/ Kola Boof's official website]

[[Category:1972 births|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Former Muslims|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Living people|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Sudanese poets|Boof, Kola]]
[[Category:Sudanese novelists|Boof, Kola]]