Islam trumps family ties. "Blair sister-in-law wants him tried for Iraq crimes," from AFP, January 26 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
KUALA LUMPUR -- Former prime minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said on Wednesday that he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.Booth, the half-sister of Blair's barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organised by Viva Palestina, a British-based organisation associated with controversial politician George Galloway.
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."
The conflict in Iraq was "an offence", she told reporters after a speech at a Malaysian university, saying it was organised well in advance between Blair and the United States leadership.
Booth has been a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, and a supporter of the Palestinian cause, and in 2008 travelled with other activists to Gaza by ship to protest against Israel's blockade of the territory.
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."...
And becoming a slave is clearly a viable alternative.
Does she want Tony Blair tried for war crimes? Tony Blair, the dhimmi peddling taqqyia for his mahoundian masters such as the nonsense in italics below?
We will not defeat extremism (and the fear it then produces in our societies) until we defeat its narrative. This narrative is Islam as a victim of the West, locked in an inevitable cultural conflict with it.
Well, it is locked in such a conflict, because that's what mahoundianism has taught its fascist adherents since it was invented in Arabia fourteen centuries ago.
This narrative links justifiable sentiments (!!!!!!!) (whether you agree with them or not)—anxiety about injustice to Palestinians, dissent over military action in Afghanistan or Iraq, anger about Kashmir or Chechnya, opposition to regimes supported by the West—with an unjustifiable narrative that defines Islam in a way that is contrary to its true teaching.
It is Blair, the Mein-Qurampf-reading self-described "theologian of mahoundianism", who's defining mahoundianism in a way which is contrary to its true teachings of subjugation and slaughter of infidels, misogyny, hatred, violence, intolerance, and imposition of sharia on the whole world.
And Lauren Booth wants such a tool at the service of fascists like her to be tried for war crimes??? Who might she want to have sent to the gallows next? George Galloway? John Esposito? Juan Cole? William C. Chittittitittitck?
Multiculturalism on steroids.
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."...
Speak for yourself, Ms Booth!
Or maybe just on coffee?
"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.
Pretty much every sensible person thinks she is naive and stupid, not just her friends. The only people who don't are those who are themselves naive and stupid ... er, yes, I'm including Muslims in that.
"Friends ask me, don't you miss going to the pub?"
I would suggest the poor dear has greater things to miss than just going down the pub. Like freedom of association, freedom of choice, freedom of conscience, the right to independence and the right to equality with men.
((( "Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."...)))
Female converts say the most absurd things. Speak for YOUR bored, lonely, searching-for-a-cause, misguided, Jim-Jones-syndromed, oppressed SELF, Laura. Or is it now Lahra?
Islam trumps family ties.
Why not? It trumps every other tie:
The Muslim Ummah, means the 'community of the faithful'. It is a unique bond that has no similar example under any other political or religious system in the world. It is a belonging to ideals which bring Muslims together in an eternal brotherhood lock which transcends all other consideration of allegiance or loyalties or barriers of nationhood, ethnicity, geography or language.
-- Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Organization of the Islamic Conference, in a speech at Columbia University on Sept. 18, 2008
Since the opinion of a woman in Islam has only half the value of a man's, according to Sharia Law founded on Mohammad's precepts, I need only tell this tool of theocratic tyranny to: "SHUT."
She doesn't warrant the other half of the phrase.
Although the "UP" might fit in the phrase that ends "YOURS" in this instance.
One more pathetic schmuckette looking for an "instant identity".
And, where she might have picked a benign one, like Taoist or Buddhist or Jain or even Baha'i, she went for the dismal dogmas of a pedophile warlord, slaveholder, thief, plagiarist and mass-murderer.
Charming.
Ms. Booth is a FRAUD! A true muslimina would not allow herself outside her house without her husband nor would she expose her face. She must be hidden behnd a veil and not be speaking publically, she must not drive a car or vote etc. IN OTHER WORD SHE MUST SIMPLY DISAPPEAR to bear her husbands children and be his slave to be beaten at his will. (one of his many wives as well)
Galloway is ex-PM of Malaysia, Mahathir's love interest...and Booth is another imbecilic Western
Islamofemininofascist TWIT...
What's she doing praying in a mosque? Where there men present?
The Imam in charge allowed this outrage?
I don't think Allah would be happy with that if he found out...
The second gulf war was a continuation of the first one because Saddam surrendered and then continued hostilities for 12 years until Bush showed up and he, Blair, and others put a stop to it...Bush/Blair did not need to lie to invade, the loser agrees to act like a loser, if he does not, the war will continue...
ps I wonder IF FAMILY GATHERINGS ARE AWKWARD for her when Tony and his wife/her sister are present!
So is she a Rafidite dog? i.e. a Shi'ite?
I'd love her to be confronted by Muslimahs from different sects howling that she's not following real Islam!
Also, is/was she married? If not, looks like she's ready to be tilth for a Mohammedan. Let her be wife #3 for some bearded troglodyte in Bradfordabad, and then be subjected to beatings and the like, so that she can experience the full glory of Islam!
Wonder whether her former client - that Bangladeshi bitch who sued a school over a jilbab - was the one behind her conversion?
Yes, I hope her friends actually had a lot more to say to her than just 'don't you miss the pub?'. Presumably Ms Booth is trying to give the impression to her Muslim audience that western non-Muslims are entirely vacuous and care about nothing but booze and licentiousness.
Lauren Booth
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."...
seems not all agree with her:
Malaysia 'apartheid' row deepens
There has been an angry reaction in Malaysia to remarks by the daughter of the former PM comparing Muslim women to black South Africans under apartheid.
Conservative Muslim women's groups say Marina Mahathir brought shame on the country by saying new Islamic laws have made local women second class citizens.
Watch Douglas Murray take her (Iranian government propaganda channel) Press TV colleague, Yvonne Ridley, to school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBMJnrsqWX4
Such hard criticism for a deep and judiciously studied decision. After all, its just a personal decision and she can change her mind and denounce the religion if she learns she doesn't like it, right???
//yep, that's sarc
she must lead a strange life if a few minutes of silence has such a profound impact - good thing she wasn't visiting a mausoleum...
ummm, did she mention anything about the 'silence of the hangings'?
"and in 2008 travelled with other activists to Gaza by ship to protest against Israel's blockade of the territory."
Yet another argument for the Israelis to just *sink* the next ship that tries to ram their blockade.
Further my previous comments:
she said. "Really, joining Islam is not a trendy thing to do.
Au contrere, converting to Islam is the fashionable thing to do these days particularly for these bourgois rebels, these eternal teenagers always on the lookout for a cool new way to co-opt meaning from someone else's culture.
In the 40s & 50s it was the middle-class beatniks exploiting African-American culture, in the 60s-70s the hippies looked to the Hindus and Bhuddists, the 80s started off looking for more to rip off from West Africa, but by the end of the decade the secular Palestinians had stolen a march on the Africans and made the 90s theirs, and anyone who wasn't wearing a Kaffiyah just wasn't hip, this set the stage for Islam itself being the height of trendiness in the 00s and into the 10s.
Interesting to reflect upon what passes for thought in this woman's brain. Well, any amount of rubbish can be accepted if one works diligently enough at it. Just look at all those who have accepted the pernicious nonsense of Marxism or fascism or, of course, Islam. So glad America was founded by folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin rather than by the likes of a Mohammed, Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler (the ultimate unholy trinity).
Booth replied: "Absolutely. He(Tony Blair)misled the British people and took Britain to war on a lie."
You could say much the same about Mohammed if he were alive today. Mohammed misled lots of people and declared war on the non-Islamic world based on a lie.
The difference between Mo and Tony, however, is that Tony wanted to help, Mo just wanted to conquer and rape.
Tony Blair's Muslim sister-in-law wants him tried for war crimes
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Ugh. Tony Blair's constant pandering to Islam has, clearly not been enough to satisfy Muslims. That Tony Blair took *any* steps to defend against Jihad is clearly seen as a "war crime" (never mind whether those steps were as effective as they might have been).
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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"...
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I think I could better address "Islam from the perspective of Western women", and so could most of the other women here. Perhaps they'd like to hear from true Western women like Marisol Seibold, Pamela Geller, or Debbie Schlussel on the subject of Islam, rather than from some deluded "revert" like Lauren Booth.
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"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?"
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God, I *hate* this superficial crap, which you hear all the time. As though the achievements of Western freedom should be equated with nothing more than knocking back a pint.
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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..."
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This brainless bint decided to "revert" after visiting *Iran*, where women are horrifically oppressed, and one poor woman now faces *being stoned to death*. I can only imagine what sort of "tranquility" Sakineh Ashtiani is currently experiencing from her prison cell.
Yet more:
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."...
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Pathetic. It is the common attitude of the "revert", who assumes that Islam will supply them with an automatic community in the form of the Ummah and answers to all life's problems, and will never require them to think again in their life. Ugh.
"Friends ask me, don't you miss going to the pub?"
I think a more important question is whether she misses thinking.
HOW exactly did this numpty fund the trip? She was recently declared bankrupt. That is her debts exceeded her assets. Her bank and credit cards will have been frozen and unusable. Ah I see the pattern. The Ummah will fund useful idiots!
Lauren Booth is, in my opinion, certifiable and converted to Islam less than 13 weeks ago. She has read just few pages of the Koran by her own published admission.
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."
LOL. I'm not oppressed at all. I dress the way I like, I can do what I like, I can work at any profession, I can date whomever I want and have any kind of relationship I want, I can have and control my own property, make my own decisions, I can vote, run for office, have power and authority, I'm FREE. I'm not bored and lonely either. There are so many interesting things in the world and no kind of knowledge is forbidden to me. There are so many available hobbies that the problem isn't boredom, but lack of time and a difficulty to choose. If westerners are bored it's maybe for lack of challenge, for loss of meaning, for bland, dishonest and indoctrinating education that stifles independent thinking, and for shallow popular culture, but Islam is certainly not the solution for those problems even if its crude and simple doctrines temporarily provide a semblance of meaning to life.
"My friends think I was naive and stupid...."
I've never even met the woman, and I KNOW she's naive and stupid.
"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.
Well, I've been in cemetaries that were very tranquil, but it never made me want to be dead.
And as for war crimes, yes, Blair and almost the whole British establishment should be tried for war crimes --crimes against the British people, for allowing their country to be invaded by millions of conquest-minded Moslems. The same goes for the "leaders" of most Western countries.
Look up the term "transmogrification", Ms. Booth.
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"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.
You see, all that is needed is a "little tranquility" to cause conversion. This is pure, unadultered Mohammedan-esque evil. Just a little "nudge",'eh?
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"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed... Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."
Hmmmm. I've made the acquaintance of large numbers of these
"Western women" who would beg to differ with Ms. Booth, methinks, including my mom, who is long-past dead...
Women like her, who pervert (sic) to Islam, make me wonder if maybe Mo wasn't right, a woman really does have only half the brain of a man.
Bewick wrote:
HOW exactly did this numpty fund the trip? She was recently declared bankrupt. That is her debts exceeded her assets. Her bank and credit cards will have been frozen and unusable. Ah I see the pattern. The Ummah will fund useful idiots!
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Quite true, Bewick. One of the people she owes the most money to? Her half-sister, Cherie Blair. Now she is threatening her brother-in-law with "war crimes" charges. Typical Muslim gratitude.
Lauren Booth's conversion to Islam seems to have followed a very common pattern. Her marriage broke up after she insisted the family move to the "romantic" French countryside, and things didn't turn out to be quite as idyllic as they'd hoped. She declared bankruptcy after running up too many debts.
Divorce and bankruptcy are certainly traumatic, but many Westerners have weathered such setbacks and rebuilt their lives without becoming "slaves of Allah".
Of course, as you note, due to her relationship to the former Prime Minister of Britain, she presents a more than generally "useful" useful idiot for the Ummah to exploit.
This is really richly, hysterically funny, in a very dark way. Talk about chickens coming home to roost ! After all the craven apologism displayed by Blair re islam, the role he played in opening the doors of the UK to ever and more increasing muslim immigration, the efforts of his skank of a wife to defend and get off as many criminal muslims as possible in the name of 'yooman rites'; his only reward, poor lamb, ( apart from making millions of course)is to have his very own 'new muslima' sister-in-law demand he be arrested as a war criminal. Talk about ingratitude ! Perhaps he now appreciates that islam always bites the hand that feeds it.
Lauren BOOTH, eh? ...hmm, any relation to John Wilkes Booth? JWB also thought that he was doing God's bidding since he believed that Lincoln was a "tyrant", just as Lauren Booth thinks that Blair is a tyrant, too.
Abraham Lincoln was instead a hero for freeing the slaves. And I find it interesting and somewhat ironic that Lauren Booth now sides with islamic slavery, just as John Wilkes Booth sided with slavery before her.
Regardless of whether or not these two are related, they do share the same wrongheaded and evil beliefs by embracing slavery. And there's no doubt about it, islam IS in fact slavery of the mind, body, and soul.
"Well, I've been in cemetaries that were very tranquil, but it never made me want to be dead."
God, that's one for a quotations book! Excellent!
"So glad America was founded by folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin..."
Exactly. These men introduced a way of thinking and a way of life that, if truly lived, vaccinates one against these fantasies.
Ms Booth (and some other Brits) would have been wise to recall the person of John Wilkes [the namesake of John Wilkes Booth]. John Wilkes was an MP who sided with the American colonies during their Revolution. It would be very sad if America becomes the only place where people can remember forebears who stood for freedom - though our Aussie friends I'm sure won't let that happen!
It doesn't take long for a convert to become a brain scrambled hater does it? Islam is like magic, one wave of the wand and they are turned into a toad. On second thought, I'd rather have toads.
Champ,
I don't think there is any connection with Wilkes-Booth, but her father is a well-known washed-up drunk, rampant socialist, famous for playing the part of the left-leaning son-in-law in the British 60s sitcom, 'Till Death Do Us Part'. I think it was re-made in the US as All in the Family.
So she has a seam of theatrical 'applause junkie' hot wired in. As an aside; she also has a pair of the fattest ankles I've ever seen.
yes I can plainly see mascara on her eyelashes, a touch of lipstick, even some obvious dental work, who does she think she is? a true Muslimina would never prance about in public like that, with her face uncovered for all the innocent young males to see. Lord only knows what types of passions might be aroused in those poor males, leading first to impure thoughts and who even knows what next? Fornication? If that were to happen, we would have no choice but to stone her to death. And let me tell you, having to stone to death some big-ass Muslim woman is no walk in the park. The older ones might die pretty fast but these young ones might crawl around on the ground for an hour or more wailing and screaming and making the most God-awful noise. Unless you find a really good, really heavy rock, and you are fortunate enough to cream her right in the middle of her forehead and even then somebody has to drag her body off and dig a hole, and bury her, and all of this takes time. It's a lot of work to be a real head-chopping, woman-stoning Muslim. But it's sure worth it because you know, at the end of the day, as you wash the congealed blood from under your fingernails, that Allah himself is smiling at you with approval as you wash that blood off. Only problem is, that blood won't wash off. Ever.
You have to understand that with a father like Tony Booth you cannot expect her to be entirely rational.
For those who do not know Tony Booth is an ultra-leftie actor but to be fair given his background this is not surprising. From a tough part of Liverpool he missed going to university when his father was injured in an industrial accident and he had to help support the family
But apart from that he has been married four times and is rumoured that have various children here and there so I could not say where Lauren fits in. I think he abandoned Cherie Booth when she was a child and had no part in her upbringing. There were reports that he only saw her again when Tony became leader of the Labour Party. A leaders wife who had been abandoned by her father would have been bad for the Blair image. When Cherie visited him in hospital after a major operation a few years ago his main concern was whether he would be able to get it up again. Not the sort of the thing normal men discuss with their middle-aged daughters.
Given the background like that we can only be surprised she doesn't dance naked round a bonfire at the summer solstice but I have to admit she would be a lot less trouble if she did.
"Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed..."
Unbelievable. She's insane.
"I don't think there is any connection with Wilkes-Booth,"
Hi, Beautiful Plumage ...
Wilkes is John Booth's middle name, so his last name is not hyphenated. Perhaps they are not related, but they do share the same last name; and more to the point that I was trying to make is that she and John share a love for the evil constructs of slavery packaged differently. Oh, and with those fat ankles of hers, then she'll feel right at home in a burqa, lol ...
So why didn't she stay in Iran if it was so wonderful? She'd probably enjoy life in Saudi Arabia.
If she's single, can she pick a husband or will her local imam decide whom she will marry? How can she live according to Islam as a single woman with no man running her household? Surely covering her hair isn't enough.
To those above who feel that giving up visits to the pub is a trivial matter when compared to the other things one gives up on perversion to Islam, I respond: it's not at all trivial. The British pub (I'm speaking here of the pre-gastro-pub, pre-non-smoking pub) is one of Britain's greatest contributions to civilization, ranking alongside the presumption of innocence in criminal law cases, the landscape garden, and malt whisky. There was no better way to interrupt a day's sightseeing than a lunch at a traditional pub for a pint or two of best bitter and a ploughman's. Most Americans have no idea how civilized a tavern can be.
I looked up a bio on Lauren Booth. It seems she belongs to a species that is all too common in the media on both sides of the pond.
I understand as well that under British bankruptcy law, bankruptcy bars someone for heading a company or standing for parliament for 15 years, and that one of Lauren's creditors happens to be Cherie. Well, well, well. Maybe this blow up is sisterly resentment? I've seen it in people closer to me, and it is sure ugly.
Fred, your piece on Lauren was amusing, to say the least.
My guess as to why Lauren Booth became a Muslimah rather than a naked neo-pagan is that like a lot of eternal adolescent rebels, she secretly pines for a nice, safe cage.
The despicable Lauren Booth's got it backwards, if she knew what she's got herself into she would commit suicide, but she's probably too dumb to understand what Islam is all about.
BLiar guilty of war crimes?
But of course! Did he and his cronies not import hundreds of thousands of soldiers of allah to change the social fabric of Britain forever? As a result, we see total destruction instead.
UK: NuLabour’s Immigration Policy of Mass Immigration Was Intended to Remodel the Social Fabric of the Nation…
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/02/15/uk-nulabours-immigration-policy-of-mass-immigration-was-intended-to-remodel-the-social-fabric-of-the-nation/
That, of course, is high treason. But Churchill is out and dhimmitude is in.
We need to bring Churchill's common sense back:
“It is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invader’s hearth.” (Winston Churchill)
"one of Lauren's creditors happens to be Cherie. Well, well, well. Maybe this blow up is sisterly resentment?"
How very islamic!
She is bankrupt so she can't afford anymore booze so she had to do something to take the edge off! Wait til she detoxes and realises what she has joined up with!
Notice she said "joined Islam" as in join a cult. You convert to a religion.
This proves that converting to Islam is like volunteering to undergo a moral lobotomy.
The "narrative" of Islam seeing itself as a victim of the West is of recent vintage. We see a very different narrative in the Quran, the hadiths, and Islam's history. Islam's leaders normally have not portrayed themselves as being victimized by the unbelievers. They've only recently concocted that kind of story because they've discovered it has the effect, on many leading unbelievers in the West, of paralyzing and stupefying them almost into premature submission. They've discovered that these kuffars will jump at the chance to plead guilty about anything and then condemn themselves self-righteously. This is a mental illness of the kuffar and is only a very recent development. Previously throughout their history Muslims would much prefer to play the role of supremely triumphant superior beings. Because who wants to think of oneself as a victim anyway? Unless it works to accomplish your ultimate desire.
I agree wholeheartedly, sheik, that we need to "bring Churchill's common sense back." But good luck with that.
Yes, I still remain an optimist long term, but the idiocy of the last half century in the West, almost without exception due to modern liberal thinking (examples: political correctness, multiculturalism, elevating equality over liberty, being clueless about the great achievements of Western Civilization, embracing an economic system in socialism which never, on its own, has provided the kind of affluence that capitalism did, excusing the bad behavior of the detritus of the human race because of so-called socio-economic deprivation, exculpating malevolent actions by third-world thugs because of the tired old explanation of Western colonialism, etc.), will make it deuce difficult to get back to the very clear thinking of a Winston Churchill type.
Just look at today's Western leaders. Virtually without exception they are either clueless (e.g., Obama) or pretty much clueless (e.g., Sarkozy). The present Pope is actually the bravest and best informed in the West respecting the current crisis which confronts mankind and he doesn't have many aircraft carriers or fighter jets to back up his contentions with the kind of force that the most decent polities must have, and demonstrate they have, in order to silence the lesser polities in the moral realm, like Russia and China, which continue to stupidly make alliances with Islamic and other barbaric states because they are so deficient in their understanding of freedom (so tired of Putin, Hu Jintao and their ilk; they're tactically clever but nothing else; Churchill would have despised them I have no doubt) .
The time if out of joint. A few Churchills are needed. Ah, where are they?
Ebonystone wrote:
To those above who feel that giving up visits to the pub is a trivial matter when compared to the other things one gives up on perversion to Islam, I respond: it's not at all trivial.
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I assure you I wasn't trivializing the British pub, Ebonystone. Many important British literary and political figures have held forth in the pubs throughout history. The British pub is an important social institution.
My husband worked in a pub in the old City of London when he was on break as an exchange student at Oxford—this was before we met—and he said he could not have had a more important experience there. I have many English relatives, as well. I have a cousin by marriage who has written several successful screenplays at a North London pub. My grandfather, a police superintendent in Herefordshire, organized what would now be called "homeland security" drills down at the local during WWII.
My point was that Muslims regard Western freedoms in terms of the most frivolous 'license'—at least as they see it. They assume women just want to party and wear miniskirts, and guys just want to eat bacon cheeseburgers and drink 'til they hurl.
that bitch should be dumped in iran or sowdia arabia, let her understand what a real muslim goes through each day, each week, each year and realize how really boring and sad it would be to live controlled on where your allowed to go. these convert bitches have no idea since they like to stay in the West where freedom is guaranteed to all!
She should try MY ocal pub. She doesn't have to drink alcohol. She could just wallow happily in all the lefty PC garbage that passes for conversation these days. They would probably love her. (I am very unpopular there: I want to preserve their right to go and drink in pubs via the expedient tactic of stopping the Islamization of Australia. They would rather have Islam and no pub life, but they don't understand that's what they are barracking for.)
Hi Lela -
With respect, you said:
"Notice she said "joined Islam" as in join a cult. You convert to a religion."
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NO! We either convert FROM a religion to another, or convert FROM a religion to "none", as in Atheism, or from Atheism to some "semblance" of belief in a deity, codified religiously or not, or we simply adopt some belief or the other, from the outset, irrespective of wishes or some vague compulsion to "convert", as in Ms. Booth's case.
This is a very important distinction, I believe, since the Mohammedans would have us think that "conversion" only takes place from outside to within the Ummah. It doesn't, logically, operate in the other direction, according to canonical texts and established Muslim "scholarship".
Of course, this cannot be true, as I'm sure you recognize.
The Mohammedans would have us believe that we cannot be
free FROM religion; we must be slaves TO it.
As for Blair: Dhimmiextraordinaire.....
"Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed."...
Hm?
She is still a Western woman.
She didn't turn into anything else just because she wraps herself in shrouds and gets her daughters ready for FGM and child-marriage. (Or did she?)
As for "oppression" I think she actually means constipation.
She's just mixed up by all these "shots of spiritual morphine..."
Is she bored, lonely and oppressed?
I read she was declared bankrupt in Dec 2010 and one of her creditors is Cherie Blair. Are the two sisters at war? Maybe that's a factor in her wanting Tony tried for war crimes?
It seems she at the same intellectual level as her daughters - this from the Daily Mail:
"I’m asked: ‘Will my daughters be Muslim?’ I don’t know, that is up to them. You can’t change someone’s heart. But they’re certainly not hostile [poor things what would they know] and their reaction to my surprising conversion was perhaps the most telling of all.
I sat in the kitchen and called them in. ‘Girls, I have some news for you,’ I began. ‘I am now a Muslim.’ They went into a huddle, with the eldest, Alex, saying: ‘We have some questions, we’ll be right back.’
They made a list and returned. Alex cleared her throat. ‘Will you drink alcohol any more?’
Answer: No. The response – a rather worrying ‘Yay!’
‘Will you smoke cigarettes any more?’ Smoking isn’t haram (forbidden) but it is harmful, so I answered: ‘No.’
Again, this was met with puritanical approval. Their final question, though, took me aback. ‘Will you have your breasts out in public now you are a Muslim?’
What??
It seems they’d both been embarrassed by my plunging shirts and tops and had cringed on the school run at my pallid cleavage. Perhaps in hindsight I should have cringed as well.
‘Now that I’m Muslim,’ I said, ‘I will never have my breasts out in public again.’
‘We love Islam!’ they cheered and went off to play. And I love Islam too."
Yikes!
Can you please f*ck off to Iran and see if you can take as many of your like-minded 7th Century halfwits with you please?
"Muslim women are not oppressed" she says?! That comment alone certified she's a nut case who does not reside in reality.
She is no more converted to islam than a dog, or a pig, in a mosque! - Where does she get such an idea? Any islamic cleric who took part in this 'conversion', if ever there was one, would be killed on the spot. We should show some compassion - she is clearly desperately unwell. If she goes to a muslim country thinking she is a muslim, they will surely kill her - she is, and always will be, a kuffar, a dhimmi - and very stupid unless, of course, she is just plain insane - for which latter, muslims would kill her, anyway!
The mentality of converts to this sub-mode of life has no bounds. One just hopes those solitary moments of realization and stark truth reminds the convert of their wanton stupidity. A deportation field trip might help wake them up! And if that doesn't work make the deportation permanent.
Oh, try her for war-crimes! Aiding and abetting the enemy!
Why are we giving this intellectually challenged twerp so much airtime? It's her life and no doubt she's going to relish every moment of the arc of its sad trajectory.
There are more important and weighty things to consider and debate, for example, Turkey's segue from an 'ally' of the West into the arms of the Islamists, Hezbollah, Iran and Syria on the move, Mubarak under the pump, the Muslim Brotherhood salivating at the prospect of new territories to conquer and The Guardian and al Jazeera custodians of the leaked Palestinian papers.
It all smells rather rotten.
Malaysia 'apartheid' row deepens
There has been an angry reaction in Malaysia to remarks by the daughter of the former PM comparing Muslim women to black South Africans under apartheid.
Conservative Muslim women's groups say Marina Mahathir brought shame on the country by saying new Islamic laws have made local women second class citizens.
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Ah yes I still remember that article by Marina Mahathir and not with fondness. What the Western media didn't tell you is Ms. Mahathir seemed to blame non-Muslim women for the plight of their Muslim countrywomen. This is how she framed it:
In the above analogy,
non-Muslim Malaysian women = white S. Africans
Muslim women = blacks
Such a comparison is dishonest and borderline slanderous as us Malaysian infidels are ourselves an oppressed class in our own country. We have nothing to do with the oppression of our Muslim countrywomen. That's the work of male Muslims.
She went on to say:
The irony here is there really are two categories of citizenship in Malaysia - Muslim and non-Muslim - where non-Muslims have less rights than others. To equate us with the oppressors and then ignore our plight is nothing short of insulting.
She also ended with this delusional observation:
Marina Mahathir is typical of so many liberal Muslims who seems to be open-minded but scratch the surface and you'll find they're essentially no different from the fundies. Their first instinct is always to protect Islam. Even when criticising Islam, they hold back from being 100% honest. Ms. Mahathir used to portray Saudi Arabia as if it's the most progressive Muslim country on earth. Enough said.
Surely turds?
Nah. She , like Cherie, is a daughter of s seriously bad Scouse "actor" called Tony Booth. Then again I suppose if one researches far enough they could just be related to John Wilkes Booth.
Oh and the venerable Tony Blair claims that he read the Koran every night so his progress with that sack of s**t is far in advance of Lauren. Pity he never understood.
PS - Scouse = Liverpudlian. Blair? Well maybe he DID understand because he converted from CoE to catholicism.
Sorry GI but the tax return intervened. Yes I knew all that you said. What ****** me off is that this creature, who actively campaigns against Israel, is still paid by the MSM to write intellectually bankrupt articles
A Ps. As famously said in "Boys from the Blackstuff" "I could do that Gis a job"
I think Lauren Booth missed her true vocation as a circus clown. Even her Islamist handlers must crack up when they watch a middle-aged white woman with a cloth wrapped around her head tell non-Muslim females that Mohammad’s regime treats women equitably. Who says there’s no humour in Allah’s inverted Barnham & Bailey universe?
If her friends were asking her, "Don't you miss the pub?", read between the lines: they were implying she was at the pub a LOT.
It sounds like this woman has personal issues and sought support in a teetotaling organization that will structure every facet of her life, including how to dress, what to eat, etc. She's in way over her head and talking nonsense, but the press shouldn't give her a forum. I think Tony & fam need to do an intervention and get her into a 12 step program, ASAP.
Marina Mahathir is typical of so many liberal Muslims who seems to be open-minded but scratch the surface and you'll find they're essentially no different from the fundies. Their first instinct is always to protect Islam. Even when criticising Islam, they hold back from being 100% honest. Ms. Mahathir used to portray Saudi Arabia as if it's the most progressive Muslim country on earth. Enough said.
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She is just like Papa, Tun "Dr" Mahathir, two-faced, hypocritical, pedantic and narcissistic......Mahathir
is still an anti-Semitic blow-hard (not to mention
he ruined Malaysia during his 22-year fascist reign).
Western women are oppressed? Good to know. Then all we need to do to free them is to treat them like Saudi Arabia treats women. Don't let them drive. Don't let them leave the house without permission from a male relative. Don't let them work without same permission. Let the husband have 4 wives. Make them wear a burka. The list goes on, but if this is what will free western women, then we should do it.
Poor things, I never knew how oppressed my wife and daughters were.
Hell, I thought I had relatives that turned the bend. She'd be a casting item for "Lion in Winter".
Oh, Another thing. Did she ever have an identity before her sister married Blair? I mean, Mary Boleyn did.
Maybe she should date young Ronnie Reagan.
What a family!!!
Perhaps Bliar can be hoist on his own petard at last.
Anybody else would have been tried for war crimes long ago. They wont get the US President so Tony dear, you are on your own.
Maybe they were talking about the pubic hair? Women after conversion are supposed to shave that off as part of the rituals. A personal preference of Allah and his messenger PBUH.