Satire I Wanna Be Like Usama

Juan Cole 08/07/2007

I’ve always been a firm believer in making fun of the bad guys, since they derive some of their power from being taken seriously.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page