Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

 >>         Since "ibn/bin" just means "son" I'm not sure when you'd use
 >> "son of the..." in anything but an insult. :)
 >
 >>From the little bit of Arabic I picked up in Tunisia, I would have to
 >agree, based on "ibn el kelb"...

        Ooh.  How rude.

        Arabs apparently like to joke that westerners can't tell the
difference between a dog (kalb) and their hearts (qalb). :)

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