We reported earlier that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had converted to Islam. Now she is touring Muslim countries with a radical group called Viva Palestina demanding that her in-law by tried for the invasion of Iraq. (The fact that Saddam Hussein regularly killed devout Muslims who opposed his rule doesn’t seem to factor into her thinking.) Oh, and she also says that it’s Western women who are oppressed. She learned that tidbit in Iran. It appears to me that her “conversion” has less to do with a religious experience and more to do with joining a cult. An excerpt from a news report:
“The 43-year-old, who wore a black headscarf that tightly framed her face as she gave an address on “Islam from the perspective of Western women”, discussed her own conversion which took place 15 weeks ago.
“My friends think I was naive and stupid, they have rubbished me so much,’ she said. “Really, joining Islam is not a trendy thing to do.
‘Friends ask me, don’t you miss going to the pub?’
But she defended her decision, which came after a trip to Iran in September 2010, and said that perceptions about Muslim women were incorrect.
‘I sat down in the mosque in Iran, there was such tranquility. I had the compulsion to pray and from then on I knew I was a Muslim,’ she said.
‘Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed… Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed.’
….Asked whether Blair should be arrested and sent to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for war crimes, Booth replied: ‘Absolutely. He misled the British people and took Britain to war on a lie.’
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