http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100060687/why-would-tony-blairs-sister-in-law-convert-to-islam/
Why would Tony Blair's sister-in-law convert to Islam?
By Ed West Religion Last updated: October 25th, 2010
It was only a matter of time. Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth has converted to Islam after a dose of “spiritual morphine” in Iran, although she talks about the world’s fastest-growing religion like it was the latest version of the Atkins Diet:
“Now I don’t eat pork and I read the Koran every day. I’m on page 60. I also haven’t had a drink in 45 days, the longest period in 25 years,” she said.
And she’s even refused to rule out wearing a burka: “Who knows where my spiritual journey will take me?”
Politically Booth has always struck me as being incredibly naïve, or willfully ignorant of reality. She writes:
Here in Iran they feel proud to suffer in order to express solidarity with the people of Palestine. It’s kind of like the way you express solidarity with America only without illegal chemical weapons and a million civilian deaths.
Presumably being a past contributor to the Iranian regime’s mouthpiece, Press TV, makes it easier for her to overlook Iran’s appalling human rights record, stories of widespread torture, rape and murder following last year’s rigged elections, its role in murdering dozens of dissidents across Europe, and its financing of various homicidal sectarian groups in Iraq.
I’ve written before about the fascination some middle-class Englishwomen have with Islam and the Arab world; the paradox is that many who convert come from progressive backgrounds and would be horrified at the idea of embracing Catholicism or one of the more conservative forms of Protestantism. And yet they’re prepared to adopt a religion far more traditional in its attitude to the sexes, and adopt an item of clothing that Middle Eastern women fought so hard and courageously to get rid of.
No doubt their Islam is partly a reaction to the excesses of the last 40 years, by people too programmed to oppose “Right-wing politics” to become conventionally conservative. Anyone who’s walked through a British city centre on a Friday night and contrasted the behaviour of the people serving the curry with the people eating it can see the attractions of a faith that emphasises family, duty and sobriety. And Islam is also attractive because it’s so demanding, asking great sacrifices of its followers.
But partly it is because Islam is, unlike any other faith, more than just a religion – it is also a political idea. And ever since the decline of socialism and Left-wing intellectuals’ abandonment of the working class, third worldist “anti-imperialism” has become the radical chic of choice, especially so with the Holy Land conflict. And what better way of embracing the politics of the 1968 generation than by submitting to Islam?
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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.
LOL, saw that on the tv. This plump female is mentally imbalanced, nothing much. She's craving for attention.
Location: British Columbia
Posted on: 26-10-10 11:40:35
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Originally posted by KumarM
LOL, saw that on the tv. This plump female is mentally imbalanced, nothing much. She's craving for attention.
What does someone's weight/looks have to do with this ??
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Isn't religion a personal decision or matter? Why crying hoarse over someone else's decision or prerogative rather than minding own business?
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Posted on: 26-10-10 15:58:50
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Originally posted by Maharaj
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I tried, thinking of 2012. Now they say several billion years
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Dimple2001
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Originally posted by morning_rain
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Originally posted by KumarM
LOL, saw that on the tv. This plump female is mentally imbalanced, nothing much. She's craving for attention.
What does someone's weight/looks have to do with this ??
Easy. She looked real plump on tv. Its just a reference. Rest is correct.
