UK journalist detained by Taliban embraces Islam

[Malcolm_X]

Beetje oud nieuws, maar kwam het toevallig tegen.....


UK journalist detained by Taliban embraces Islam
Updated on 2002-08-01 13:20:40


ISLAMABAD, August 01 (PNS): British journalist Yvonne Ridley, detained by Taliban last year, has embraced Islam, saying Islam is the religion of salvation, according to BBC Pashto service.

Ms Ridley, 44, working for the British "Sunday Express" newspaper - was detained in September 2001 near the eastern city of Jalalabad, for entering the country illegally. She was released after ten days.

"Taliban had told me to convert to Islam after my release and reaching London. I had told them that it is not possible now but promised them to study and understand Islam," the BBC quoted her as saying.

She said she studied the Holy Quran and several other books and converted to Islam.

In a book written after her release, Ridley said that she met Dr. Zaki Badawai, head of the Islamic Center in London and discussed with him Islam. In her book, she has explained how she was arrested and how much Taliban respected her in detention.

The British journalist said, "There is no real Islamic system in any of the Islamic country". She lashed out at the leadership of Taliban and Saudi rulers for 'making Islam slave' for their ulterior motives and cultural obligations.

The 44-year-old mother-of-one was seized near the northeastern city of Jalalabad on September 28 after traveling to the region with two local guides.

She was held in solitary confinement in a house for her first seven days in captivity before being moved to a prison in the Afghan capital Kabul.

She had been in the Middle East since the US suicide attacks on 11 September.

Yvonne Ridley had been reporting for the Sunday Express and Daily Express from Peshawar and Islamabad in Pakistan after the September 11 attacks.

She was the paper's chief reporter and a highly experienced journalist who covered several conflicts in many countries around the world.

Sunday Express Editor, Martin Townsend, says: "She is an experienced and courageous journalist."

Ms Ridley, originally from Stanley, County Durham, is a former assistant editor of Newcastle's Sunday Sun and deputy editor of Wales on Sunday. Sunday Sun Deputy Editor, Colin Patterson, says: "She is a very warm, gregarious person who is very determined and tenacious."

Ms Ridley also worked for the News of the World, the Daily Mirror, The Sunday Times, The Observer and the Independent before joining Express Newspapers three years ago.

After the Lockerbie disaster nine years ago, Ms Ridley got the first interview with Ahmed Jibril, the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which had been among the chief suspects.

[De Rode Roos]

Nu ik dit toch lees, mag je volgens de Koran mensen gedwongen bekeren?

[Canaris]

Patricia Hurst , werd ontvoerd toen zij 21 jaar oud was.

Door revolutionaire criminelen.

Patsy Hurst werd daarop zelf crimineel. ze beroofde banken, brak in huizen in.

Nadat ze werd bevrijd, appeleerde ze aan de rechtbank haar medestrijders toch vrij te laten. Dat hielp natuurlijk geen bal, ze werd zelf ook veroordeelt.

Het duurde 5 jaar voor ze los kwam van de groep en besefte wat zij eigenlijk had gedaan.

IN DE WETENSCHAP NOEMT MEN DAT STOCKHOLM SYNDROOM

[Hamza-T]

Canaris , werd opgevoed tot hij 21 jaar oud was.

Door westerse athiesten.

Canaris werd daarop zelf athiest.Hij postte op maroc.nl veel felle reacties tegen de gelovigen,en vereerde westerse leiders.

Nadat hij was opgevoed,argumenteerde hij bij maroc.nl zijn medekafiers niet te beoordelen maar te prijzen om hun ongeloof. Dat hielp natuurlijk geen bal,hij werd immers zelf ook beoordeeld.

Het duurde 50 jaar voordat hij stierf en los kwam van de groep kafiers en besefte wat zijn groep en ideologie eigenlijk hadden gedaan.

IN DE WETENSCHAP NOEMT MEN DAT STOCKHOLM SYNDROOM.

In de Islam noemt men dit volgen waaraan zij bemerkten dat hun vaderen dit volgden,ook al waren ze niet geleid en hadden ze ongelijk.

(Er hoort wel een knipoog bij dit verhaal en hopelijk loopt het niet zo met Canaris af.)

[Malcolm_X]

Reporter praises Taleban 'honour'


Yvonne Ridley: "Captors were not hostile"

British journalist Yvonne Ridley - who was released by the Taleban on Monday - has said her captors were "very honourable" people.
The Sunday Express reporter, who spent 10 days in captivity in Afghanistan, said she had been treated with respect.

"They were not hostile. They played a few mind games, but they were very respectful," she told the BBC's Breakfast With Frost programme on Sunday.

"I learned that the Taleban are very honourable people - they kept their word."

The Afghanistan people are fantastic

Yvonne Ridley
But she said she had been "very frightened" when a Taleban cleric asked her if she would like to convert to Islam, as she thought it might have been a loaded or trick question.

And she criticised the way women were treated in the south Asian country.

Ms Ridley, 43, who was seized near the north eastern city of Jalalabad, has said she had wanted to go to Afghanistan to see how ordinary people were coping.

She told the BBC: "The Afghanistan people are fantastic.

"They really are lovely and the women are also incredibly strong but unfortunately have no role to play in the society at present and that is very, very sad.

'Acceptable' conditions

"It is the religious side of the Taleban that has introduced crazy rules.

"Women are forbidden from buying new clothes, they cannot have nail varnish and are not allowed to sing."

Earlier, Ms Ridley explained that she was caught after her camera was spotted when her donkey tried to bolt, a short way from the border with Pakistan.

"A Taleban soldier shouted at me and pulled me off the donkey," she said.

"A huge crowd gathered very quickly. I was then bundled in a car."

She said the conditions she was held in had been acceptable, although she had been refused access to a telephone.

[Simon]

Ach ja, bekend fenomeen. Je moest eens weten hoeveel Joden die in de oorlog ondergedoken zaten zijn bekeerd tot het christendom. En ook daar hetzelfde fenomeen dat mensen die iemand die in levensgevaar verkeert vasthouden nog trots zijn ook met een dergelijke bekering. Tamelijk weerzinwekkend.

Simon