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RedditA couple of years before the World Trade Center attacks, Jon Ronson, a mild-mannered young journalist in Britain, decided to do a profile of a Muslim fundamentalist named Omar Bakri Mohammed, who called himself "Osama bin Laden's man in London." Hoping to counter the "lies" in the "Jewish-controlled media," Omar Bakri invited Ronson to follow him around in his daily life, telling him "I am actually very nice."
Ronson asked, "Are you?"
"Oh, yes," Bakri replied. "I am delightful."
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