Lauren Booth’s First Interview After Converting to Islam
…with Press TV’s answer to Jake Gyllenhaal.
There’s a few corkers in there, including:
- “This is a conversion that has taken me by surprise” (0:38)
- “Then I knew I was Muslim anyway, so it was an easy step to convert” (0:54)
- “I think I’m going to realize how much..what hatred really is now.” (1:23)
- “Women are happy in Islam” (1:55)
Update: Here’s another great piece ripping her a new one:
Last year I took the first steps towards converting to Judaism; also last year, I abandoned my attempt. It was partly that I find it hard to stick at any discipline, being bone-idle and highly hedonistic (for instance, I was only a lesbian for six months), and I realised that Judaism was such an extraordinarily complex and rich religion that I would really have to commit to do it properly. As I can’t even commit to Lost or any of those long American television shows, this seemed unlikely.
I also began to feel a tiny bit ridiculous trotting to shul every Saturday, in a way that I didn’t feel going to church on a Sunday, even though I found the Jewish idea of one deity far more sensible than the Father, Son and Holy Ghost free-for-all. I’m well aware that everyone who isn’t a complete self-deluding fool finds themselves preposterous at times, but I didn’t want this to happen because of a culture that I have such respect for.
I suppose what it boils down to is that I’ve always hated phoneys, and anyone who changes their name, their accent or their religion seems to me to be doing the cultural equivalent of putting a crochet crinoline lady on a toilet roll. Far better, if the religion you’re born into doesn’t convince you, to simply let it lie and act out your faith in a private capacity – for me, volunteering and giving away loadsamoney.
Of course, there is one religion which proscribes its followers under threat of death from rejecting it, and that is Islam. Which just happens to be the one that Lauren Booth (born a Catholic called Sarah) has opted for.
It’s hard to know where to start when describing the sheer ickiness of Booth. That she works as a paid stooge for the murderous Iranian regime’s television channel has to come pretty near the top. A woman, choosing to act a front for a gang of thugs who uphold the punishment of death by stoning for adulteresses! This is surely Stockholm Syndrome gone gaga.
Her entirely inappropriate addiction to the spotlight, although she was obviously designed as one of Nature’s plus-ones, is another stand-out feature. A failed actress, a mediocre hack, it’s pretty fair to say we would never have heard of her had her half-sister not married a man who became Prime Minister. And now her meal-ticket is Mohammed.
Yes, it seems that even the faith she was raised in isn’t narrow-minded, patriarchal and oppressive enough for the sensation-hungry Booth, who having tried everything else is so jaded that she can only get a kick from self-denial. (There does seem to be a particular affinity between Catholics and Muslims – Jew-hating is a great bonding agent.) And a kick it is – she describes her engagement with faith in terms that veer between the drooling of a clammy adolescent (“this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy”) and that of a recovering alcoholic clinging desperately to the wreckage of her sobriety (“I haven’t had a drink in 45 days!”)
We’ve all done embarrassing things, but the spectacle of Booth attempting to rap in the celebrity jungle does seem to indicate that she is the sort of dweeb who would do anything to get in with the tough kids – who she now perceives as being the Muslims.
Maybe like a lot of Western cowards, she thinks that if she sucks up to Islamism hard enough she will be spared its rage. Personally, I prefer to aspire to the words of the great Spanish anti-fascist activist Dolores “La Pasionaria” Ibarruri; “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
As I pointed out in this column a while back, the website Iranian.com, a voice of the country’s exiles, recently ran a photo of Miss Booth in full modesty drag, with the headline HAS THIS WOMAN GONE MAD? and the comment “in donning the hijab, she is kowtowing to the very fundamentalism that holds the fate of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in its hands … To use the language that Booth might to describe Israel’s excesses, it is shameful and disgusting that she a) works for Press TV, and b) agrees to wear Islamic headgear on screen.”
What sort of woman freely converts to a religion which supports the oppression, torment and murder of thousands of Christians, homosexuals and spirited women, worldwide, every year? The sort of woman who writes love letters to a serial killer, I reckon. Still, might as well look on the bright side. Go on, Lauren, treat yourself to a full-face and – most essentially – mouth-covering burka!
If your Iranian paymasters and puppet-masters won’t spring for it, I’d be more than happy to.
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
Great piece by Julie and am proud to call her my friend – we have just returned from yet another trip to Israel and just have to say we love the state of Israel! Sabbaba!
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For goodness sake- it's the usual token western convert. Usually because their lifestyle and diet needs a shake up and they start by leaving alcohol and meat (pork to begin with) AND HEY PRESTO – CLUB ISLAM TO SAVE THEM !! The fact is her husbands situation made her vulnerble and was an easy target to convert.
"I suppose what it boils down to is that I’ve always hated phoneys, and anyone who changes their name, their accent or their religion seems to me to be doing the cultural equivalent of putting a crochet crinoline lady on a toilet roll".
Honestly, Dave, you want to let that stand?
What's the problem? Read it in the author's context. She admits to being shallow and hypocritical in her religious integrity. Indeed, she herself would have been a phoney had she converted. So she thinks that every other convert must be, too. She's wrong. There are many converts to and from many religions that prove her wrong.
It was a stupid statement. My day hasn't been ruined. I'm glad she came to that personal conclusion sooner rather than later. Maybe some day she'll wise up and maybe not.
This person does not deserve any attention
Too bad, Islam isn't like Hare Krishna, the Quran decrees execution for trying to leave it. Keep up on daily global news of Islam free at http://tinyurl.com/islamwatch
” What sort of woman freely converts to a religion which supports the oppression, torment and murder of thousands of Christians, homosexuals and spirited women, worldwide, every year?”
Don’t blame the religion, blame the regimes.
Or you run the risk of being fundamentalist yourself.
One who is one of the rare true blondes. A person who has to have someone in authority over them, making the decisions for them.
I always thought the stereotype only applied to fake blondes, due to the affect of hydrogen pyroxide on the brain.
I half agree with you. The question is whether the religious authorities actually support this, or are controlled by the regimes. (Recall that the Ayatollah OVERTHREW the religious estrablishment in Iran.)
In my limited understanding of the matter, mainstream Islam should not support attacks on Christians, or people not proven by four witnesses to have commited sexual crimes such as Adultery or Homosexuality. (I assume by "spirited women", she does not mean actual adultresses.)
I should point out on the side, that any religious Jew (which the author quoted above is not) who would condemn Muslims for executing people who ARE proven guilty of the above, is either ignorant or a hypocrite, unless they are objecting to the method of execution or if the man involved is not treated the same way. (Although I suppose that when dealing with people trying to kill you, anything is fair.)
who is the muppet here, who are being control and brain washed by the so called governments treating human being like sheep and numbers, wanting people to fit in different boxes and hate each other, wanting people to think that they are better than their neighbours, creating hatred and misleading the human being. Who?
I believe that leaving in the world we leaving nowadays is totally corrupt and that people are now a product from that with no sense of direction and true understanding of their purpose, as they've been manipulated to act and think a certain way that don't make sense. where women showing their attributes trying to be SEXY has become the norm and modest women are seen as crazy,…people need to WAKE UP wake up, wake up. 2010 and all you see in Tv is BUtt ,12years old wanting to be a size 0, with the desire to be sexy….with no soul. SAD.
all this leading to a pervert world where women are loosing respect, where women are being raped and child are molested. what is wrong with the world and what are the causes and consequences?…People are becoming animals with no principles and morals and boundaries…That's why God the One have sent a book of guidance, because the human being is weak and need guidance to leave a happy life, respect itself and others….GOD is No fairy tale. so I urge everybody to look for the truth not as someone who belong to a box but simply as a human being, we are all the same. and If you truly and sincerly want to know the truth ask God to guide you and hopefully you will feel this unexplainable feeling in your heart, like miss Lauren Booth said, that will clarify everything.
God created us and just like your parents will say to you don't touch the fire it's gonna burn. God is teaching us with The Book and in everyday life, He gave us the power to choose right from wrong,…WE are not animals. Some will touch the fire and get burn and some won't. Sadly human beings are being killed in Africa, in Israel, ..in Palestine Iraq for Money and in a Quest of Power led by Imposter and Hypocrites in the government, and in different faith leaders (whether its christianity, Islam, Judaism..etc) who don't really care about the victims they don't care about You and Me!… they've got a plan and whatever lifes gonna end, for their on pockets well is only a little detail. So look for the Truth Yourself (preconceptions is a paracite), do your research, be open and sincere and try to see the world in a different prospective and you will SEE hopefully. (with the Help and Will of God the One). May God Bless you All and direct you.
Thanks for your positive & liberal views.
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Love the mankind, Be liberal, Know about others, Hate all sorts of killing of man and inhuman torture on man, religions are for guiding people to the right path, all human beings are brothers and sisters as originated from Adam & Eve.