Unmasked: the Veiled White Moslem Convert

[Thruthheim]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Unmasked: the veiled white Muslim convert whose great grandmother was a suffragette


She was presented by Channel 4 as an authentic - but anonymous - voice of moderate British Islam.

And on Christmas Day the veiled woman described only as "Khadijah" was given a national televison platform for propagating her views in an "alternative Christmas message" designed to rival the Queen's.
She told viewers Jack Straw was wrong to criticise the veil, claiming concealing facial features "liberated" women.

But the Daily Mail can now unveil "Khadijah" - and reveal that she is in fact Elaine Atkinson, an English convert to Islam who travels the country working for a radical muslim group trying to take political control of Pakistan.

And despite her presentation by Channel 4 as a moderate, in the past the 38-year-old has described non-believers as "rats in cages going round on a treadmill" of consumerism, and declares she would like to see Britain's pubs converted into mosques.

Since going through an islamic marriage ceremony with a British-born muslim of Pakistani origin, Miss Atkinson - a fromer radical feminist - has become known as Khadijah Iqbal.

But her rejection of her English roots caused a rift with her family, which has a long history of military and police service.
Her great-grandmother was a suffragette, and her brother is currently serving as a soldier in Afghanistan, she claimed.

Considering she was once a radical feminist, the switch to Islam seems rather contradictory!

[Sigurd Volsung]

The woman has no respect for her indigenous traditions or race. Converting to Islam is as far away as one can get; and not to mention totally alien to Western civilization as a whole.

[Oswiu]

The woman has no respect for her indigenous traditions or race. Converting to Islam is as far away as one can get; and not to mention totally alien to Western civilization as a whole.

I find the adoption of a weird foreign name one of the most shocking, and symptomatic, aspects of such cases. What a disgusting slap in the face for her family and ancestors.

[Haldís]

Considering she was once a radical feminist, the switch to Islam seems rather contradictory!

not if one goes to the root of feminism: hatred of your own kind and civilization.... I feel sorry for all these brainwashed women.

[Spirit of Fire]

She sounds like one of those mentally unstable people.
Those people can be radical communist one day, hardline skinhead the next day, and they convert to islam, scientology or some nutjob UFO cult in the end.

[Haldís]

She sounds like one of those mentally unstable people.
Those people can be radical communist one day, hardline skinhead the next day, and they convert to islam, scientology or some nutjob UFO cult in the end.

this reminds me of someone...

[Alizon Device]

This should have received a lot more media publicity than it did, thanks for posting this, Thruthheim!

It just underlines the fact that wearing of a veil in Europe is inappropriate, incongruous and alien.
Our society relies on face to face contact, it tells us so much about the person we are dealing with.
Maybe the European face is more revealing than the Arab one. The Pakistanis who enter my workplace seem only to have 3 facial expressions. Anger, elation and that strange, focussed yet bored, stare which only compulsive gamblers have.