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Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids
Topic Started: Oct 27 2010, 12:18 AM (230 Views)
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Julie Burchill: Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids


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.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/julie-burchill/julie-burchill-poor-lauren-booth-ndash-she-would-do-anything-to-get-in-with-the-tough-kids-2117219.html
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Well b*gg*r me with a ragman's trumpet! I never thought the Independent would publish anything so Islamophobic! Things really are beginning to change.
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Damn good article that Ruby - excellent spot!
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Bamiyan
Oct 27 2010, 12:25 AM
Well b*gg*r me with a ragman's trumpet! I never thought the Independent would publish anything so Islamophobic! Things really are beginning to change.
Plus it's the fact that it's by a fat raving lesbo left wing Marxist is all the more surprising.
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The times they are a-changing.
Well done (for once) Julie Birchill and about time.
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Bamiyan
Oct 27 2010, 12:25 AM
Well b*gg*r me with a ragman's trumpet! I never thought the Independent would publish anything so Islamophobic! Things really are beginning to change.

Aye, I can see the tide's a-changing.

This time next year all the two faced liberals will be falling over themselves to distance themselves from all things islamic - just watch.


Cuh! Just been beaten by a whisker to the 'a-changing' thing!
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Not every msulim will like her, and she may find herself under the breadknife if she upsets certain sects
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mash100
Oct 27 2010, 01:01 AM
Not every msulim will like her, and she may find herself under the breadknife if she upsets certain sects
That'd be a shame, eh? :D :D
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Great read, I can’t wait for the continuing saga of “my conversion to islam.”

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great article.seems strange to be reading like that and the EDL one in the times.maybe the broadsheets are finaly changing direction.

now all we need is for the tabloids to follow suit.
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The tide is turning, but in that turning look to our government and watch it lash out at us. We'll be demonised further and castigated as racist, nazi , islamophobes
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Oct 27 2010, 01:20 AM
The tide is turning, but in that turning look to our government and watch it lash out at us. We'll be demonised further and castigated as racist, nazi , islamophobes
so no change there then. ;) :D
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That article has really surprised me, I don't know much about the person who wrote the article but if she is a leftist then that is surprising.

The tide is turning, more people are realising the truth about Islam however the process needs to happen faster.

Still this is a positive development in the silent battle of words going on between the supporters of Islam and those, like the author of the article, who are against Islam.
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excellent stuff!...sign up for the comments girls n boys.
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Julie Burchill has been campaigning against Islamofascism for DECADES.

She has consistantly stuck up for the State of Israel and has always fought anti-Semitism.

She has always put the cause of the British working class first.

The woman has been and still is, one of the most influential journalists of the past twenty years.

If we could persuade her to back us it would be an enormous boost for us.

Political Correctness is a gift from Allah
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Wow, surprising article there from the newspaper of Robert Fisk. Seems like Julie has been swotting up on Islam and its practice. Fantastic to see.

Should get more of this sort of media coverage once more and more journalists bother to really learn about this religion.
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Oct 27 2010, 04:03 AM
Julie Burchill has been campaigning against Islamofascism for DECADES.

She has consistantly stuck up for the State of Israel and has always fought anti-Semitism.

She has always put the cause of the British working class first.

The woman has been and still is, one of the most influential journalists of the past twenty years.

If we could persuade her to back us it would be an enormous boost for us.


True.

She is a gifted journalist to boot, I could read her stuff all day long.





@ Orwell, The Quays need to get those lifts sorted out. :blink:
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Julie Birchill has considered converting to Judaism a couple of times, so that tells you what side she leans.

For all Cherie faults, and I'm no supporter whatsoever, at least she is congruous, and isnt trying to be something she isnt. Lauren Booth has always struck me as suffering from either severe sibling rivalry desiring a position or purpose at least equal to her sisters, or a bad case of inflated ego
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I wonder if she will undergo a Clitoridectomy or wear a burka?

Goodbye guys and gals. We gave it a try. Immigration worked with everyone else. Just not muslims. No hard feelings. Have a nice life, just have it somewhere else.
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She's going to be on 'This week', after question time (BBC1 at 11:35pm).
I usually watch it, as it's quite entertaining anyway.
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This woman, this heffalump is mentally sick. I am assuming her child is also going Islamic. Will her child thank her in her latter years? What if her daughter wants to leave Islam when she gets older. Who will protect her daughter from possible attacks because of her Apostasy. Poor kid. Stupid demented woman.
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fern
Oct 29 2010, 12:38 AM
This woman, this heffalump is mentally sick. I am assuming her child is also going Islamic.
It seems Lauren has already gotten her child involved with Islam. Watch at 4:35.


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