The litany of woes associated with the post-stardom lives of former child actors is well-documented and has been the subject of not a few VH-1 specials. Many a precocious lad and lass who brought us great joy in their early years has taken a dark turn when the cameras were turned off for good.   

Cases in point:

• Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family fame found himself in legal trouble after a severe case of buyer’s remorse involving a transvestite prostitute.
• The entire tribe of Oompa-loompa’s from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory tragically committed lemming-style mass suicide outside of Gumdrop Swamp.
• Gary Coleman of Diff’rent Strokes has… well, you know. 

However, the recent discovery that former child star Neil Patrick Harris turned to militant Islam as a means of coping with a flagging career has been a particularly bitter pill to swallow. Harris was much loved for his role as the intellectually gifted yet oh-so-typical adolescent whiz kid Doogie Howser, M.D. on the late ’90’s sitcom of the same name.

Sadly, Harris appears to have fallen under the spell of the “go-boom-for-Allah-and-win-72-virgins crowd.” Earlier this week he detonated a concealed explosive device outside of an Oklahoma University football game blowing himself up.

For complete mainstream media coverage of this story, click here and here.

Update: New round-up here.

Technorati tags: Joel Heinrichs, OU, Suicide Bomber, Domestic Terrorism, Islamofascism

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