DEREK TURNER, writing in Taki’s Magazine, examines the much-publicized conversion of Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law who proclaimed herself a Muslim six weeks after having a mystical experience in a mosque. He writes:

Lauren’s conversion has been greeted with hilarity. Her father scoffed: “I mean, come on, the girl doesn’t have a spiritual bone in her body.”

He added that Lauren hates her Jewish mother “almost as much as she hates me. So maybe that’s what this is all about.…It is time for her to grow up and stop playing the victim. She’s 43, for goodness sake.” Lauren’s back catalogue of down-market journalism, during which she rubbished her brother-in-law while trading on his name, won’t help convince anyone of her seriousness. She has joined many organizations in her well-spent life, including such useful groupings as the National Union of Journalists, Media Workers Against the War, and the Woodcraft Folk. She must have found powerful brain food in the Koran to outshine the profundity of the song that closes Woodcraft Folk meetings:

Ish Ash Osh.
Link your hands together
A circle we make;
This bond of our friendship
No power can break.
Let’s all sing together
In one mighty throng;
Should any be weary
We’ll help them along…
PEACE.

Turner blames mainstream Christianity with its wishy-washy, New Age standards for the attraction of Islam to those Westerners with “an emotional need for the God hypothesis.” There is one major difference between the Islamic world and the West. We laugh at our infidels and they don’t.

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Rita writes:

Why is Christianity blamed when a Jew converts to Islam? Give me a break.

Simone writes:

I’m just wondering if Rita is implying that Judaism should be blamed for Lauren Booth’s conversion to Islam? To my knowledge, albeit limited on this subject matter, Lauren Booth has never identified herself as a Jew. On ‘Oz Conservative’ I read that she was raised in a secular household and tried, as an adult, to get her ‘spiritual fix’ within the confines of Christianity. She writes that she was going to get baptised at her local Anglican church. When this didn’t eventuate, she tried ‘the grand, red-bricked Baptist church.’ When this too was found wanting she even planned to give the Quakers ‘a go.’ Nowhere at all did I read about Lauren Booth ever giving Judaism ‘a go’ and it can be safely assumed that she wasn’t exposed to any Jewish beliefs or practises as a child either.

Laura writes:

Orthodox Christianity, in other words, real Christianity, was available to Booth (one can find it everywhere in the great museums of Europe) and she could have sought out the real thing, but she rejected it. I think the only one to blame for Lauren Booth’s conversion is Lauren Booth. I predict, judging from what has been written about her, it will be short-lived.

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