Recently, Julia Hartley-Brewer, a British journalist, interviewed Yvonne Ridley, a convert to Islam, an Islamist, and a pro-Hamas True Believer. Long ago, when I debated Ridley on Al-Hurrah, she dressed like either Lawrence of Arabia or like a male member of the Taliban. Here is Hartley-Brewer's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0KM4LUrRUs

Hartley-Brewer lambasted her with the truth, often reducing Ridley to silence.

Yvonne Ridley, a convert to Islam, an Islamist, and a supporter of Hamas, really went too far in this interview. She seemed obtuse, became speechless; was no longer a firebrand ranter. If Ridley were capable of shame, she would or should be mortified by her performance.

Ridley insisted that Hamas had been "kind" to the Israeli hostages and had even given them "goodie bags;" that if anyone had ever been tortured or murdered it was innocent Palestinian Arabs in Israeli prisons and in mass graves. Ridley also focused on one—only one—prisoner whom the Israelis returned to Gaza, a man who also looked as "gaunt" as the three Israeli hostages who have just been freed, the three who looked as if they'd just been released from Bergen-Belsen or Auschwitz. Hartley-Brewer pointed out that this lone former prisoner was actually a cancer patient, whom the Israelis had been treating in a first-rate hospital.

If you don't believe this, please watch the interview. Enjoy it. I certainly did.

Some Middle Eastern, Arab, Muslim women have been forced into becoming human homicide bombers: either the particular Arab Islamist terrorist group would threaten to expose the woman's alleged sins to her family who would honor kill her and shame her children forever—or, she could go out in a cloud of glory by killing Jews, Israelis, or other Muslim women and children at prayer. Her family might also receive good money for her murderous act. Read Anat Berko, the Israeli criminologist, about this.

Some Western women, lured by the wild, wild East, have donned burqas, worn hijab, married ISIS fighters—or, like Ridley, or British journalist Jan Goodwin, have dressed like Lawrence of Arabia, or like a member of the Taliban, turbanned headscarf and all. Goodwin actually posed with the mujahideen in full Taliban dress for the cover of her book. (She was not kidnapped or held for ransom). Both Ridley and Goodwin, are extreme anti-Zionists.

Some Western women flee the obligations of freedom or are, like Keats, more than "half in love with easeful death." Some are just plain crazy.

Read more at Substack: https://phyllischesler.substack.com/p/western-women-converts-to-islam-yvonne