Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth converts to Islam

[Yala]

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.

Broadcaster and journalist Lauren Booth, 43 - Cherie Blair’s half-sister - said she now wears a hijab head covering whenever she leaves her home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque ‘when I can’.

She decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom.

‘It was a Tuesday evening and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy,’ she told The Mail on Sunday.

When she returned to Britain, she decided to convert immediately.
‘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.

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[Yala]

Refusing to discount the possibility that she might wear a burka, she said: ‘Who knows where my spiritual journey will take me?’

Before her awakening in Iran, she had been ‘sympathetic’ to Islam and has spent considerable time working in Palestine. ‘I was always impressed with the strength and comfort it gave,’ she said of the religion.

Miss Booth, who works for Press TV, the English-language Iranian news channel, has been a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq.

In August 2008 she travelled to Gaza by ship from Cyprus, along with 46 other activists, to highlight Israel’s blockade of the territory.

She was subsequently refused entry into both Israel and Egypt.

In 2006 she was a contestant on the ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity .  .  . Get Me Out Of Here!, donating her fee to the Palestinian relief charity Interpal.

She said she hoped her conversion would help Mr Blair change his presumptions about Islam.

During her visit to Iran last month, Booth wrote a public letter to Mr Blair asking him to mark Al-Quds (Jerusalem) day - a protest at Israel's occupation of Palestine.

The missive was a bitter attack on the former Prime Minister, who is now a Middle East envoy working for peace in the troubled region.
'The men, women and children around me withstood a day of no water and no food (it’s called Ramadan, Tony, it’s a fast),' Booth wrote.
'Coping with hunger and thirst in the hundred degrees heat, as if it were nothing. They can withstand deprivation in the Muslim world.

'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.'
She adds: 'Your world view is that Muslims, are mad, bad, dangerous to know. A contagion to be contained.

'In the final chapter [of his autobiography] you say we need a "religious counter attack" against Islam. And by "Islam" you mean the Al Quds rallies, the Palestinian intifada (based on an anti Apartheid struggle Tony, NOT religious bigotry), against every Arab who fails to put their arms in the air as the F16 missiles rain on their homes and refugee camps and sing a rousing chorus of ‘Imagine all the people...’

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[Reffo]

A nut job ...

[curlyg]

Lol

[Kachah]

Tony Blair converted to Catholicism, Lauren - to Islam... does it run in the family or what?
Well, it's made the news. Allah akbar.
Regardless of her newly gained spirituality from the page 60 of holy Koran, I can't help laughing my ass off at what she says about "proud Iranians ready to suffer for solidarity". This is one classic case of some Western idiot celebrity visiting Gulag and reporting in euphoria how "those people are happy to work under unbearable conditions to build new society free of exploitation". This is what democracy does to feeble mind - she can't even imagine that proud Iranians are scared shitless not to express whatever their ayatollah is telling them to express be it Quds, Schmutz or anything else.

[farmboy]

Poor cow doesn't realise what she's up for. Maybe in the long run it will be for the best. A slap in the mouth, told to keep her mouth shut and confined to wearing a bag over her head. That's par for the course for moslem women is it not?

[danholo]

Addicts are always dangerous, regardless of it being drugs, or religion.

‘It was a Tuesday evening and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy,’ she told The Mail on Sunday.

Weirdo.

[Mil]

Way too liberal for me....

[Sanket]

Way too liberal for me....

The next step after “Liberal” is “Islamic radical”.

[Reffo]

Yep, it's the latest rage, western feminists who want to be liberated, convert to Islam ...

PS
An emoticon for 'shaking of the head in disbelief' would be useful ...

[Mediocrates]

Well whatever she does in her private life is her business. I could not worry about that. I feel she is a lying loathsome person in all other ways though.

[Reffo]

Perhaps it is an extreme form of "Ich bin ein Berliner" sentiment?

[Reffo]

She decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom.

‘It was a Tuesday evening and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy,’ she told The Mail on Sunday.

I bet this other Iranian woman does not share her enthusiasm for the form of Islam that is espoused by the "holy men" of Qom ...

Woman sentenced to death by stoning 'tortured before confession'

[curlyg]

I'm guessing this won't exactly harm her career prospects either, given where she works...

[Kachah]

Perhaps it is an extreme form of "Ich bin ein Berliner" sentiment?

Yep. Meaning literally "I am a sausage".