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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 10169024" data-attributes="member: 91140"><img src="http://islamgreatreligion.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bism01.jpg?w=180&h=62" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam  Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having what she describes as a “holy experience” during a visit to Iran. Journalist and broadcaster Lauren  Booth, 43 – Cherie Blair’s sister – now wears a hijab whenever she  leaves her home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque  whenever she 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 said in an interview today. When she returned to Britain, she decided to convert immediately. Booth – who works for Press TV,  the English-language Iranian news channel – has stopped eating pork and  reads the Qur’an every day. She is currently on page 60. Booth has stopped drinking alcohol and says she has not wanted to drink since converting. Before her spiritual awakening in  Iran, she had been “sympathetic” to Islam and has spent considerable  time working in Palestine, she said, adding that she hoped her  conversion would help Blair change his presumptions about Islam.    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. ‘The strange thing is that since I  decided to convert I  haven’t wanted to touch alcohol, and I was  someone who craved a glass  of wine or two at the end of a day.’ 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. She said she hoped her conversion would help Mr Blair change his presumptions about Islam.    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…’ Source:   <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323278/Tony-Blairs-sister-law-Lauren-Booth-converts-Islam-holy-experience-Iran.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323278/Tony-Blairs-sister-law-Lauren-Booth-converts-Islam-holy-experience-Iran.html</a> Watch her Converstion Live  : [YOUTUBE]GZTjRRIKxtY[/YOUTUBE] </blockquote>

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