al qadah got her and she baceme muslims than why kafers did the worse iwth us and no musli m became kafers ?
Journalist Yvonne Ridley, the captive of Taleban convert to Islam
The formerly hard-drinking Sunday school teacher became a Muslim after reading the Quran on her release.
Working as a reporter for the Sunday Express in September 2001, Ridley was smuggled from Pakistan across the Afghan border.
But her cover was blown when she fell off her donkey in front of a Taleban soldier near Jalalabad, revealing a banned camera underneath her robes.
Her first thought as the furious young man came running towards her? "Wow - you're gorgeous," she says. "He had those amazing green eyes that are peculiar to that region of Afghanistan and a beard with a life of its own. "
But fear quickly took over. I did see him again on my way to Pakistan after my release and he waved at me from his car."
Ridley was interrogated for 10 days only she says: "I was horrible to my captors. I spat at them and was rude and refused to eat. It wasn't until I was freed that I became interested in Islam."
She said about Taleban "I realised the US doesn't have to bomb the Taleban - just fly in a regiment of women waving their underwear and they will all run off."
Once she was back in the UK, Ridley turned to the Quran as part of her attempt to understand her experience.
Yvonne says "I was absolutely blown away by what I was reading - not one dot or squiggle had been changed in 1,400 years."
Now she converted to Islam, gave up alcohol and cigarettes. wearing hijab, and pray five times a day.
"I have joined what I consider to be the biggest and best family in the world. When we stick together we are absolutely invincible." she says "There are oppressed women in Muslim countries, but I can take you up the side streets of Tyneside and show you oppressed women there, Oppression is cultural, it is not Islamic. The Quran makes it crystal clear that women are equal."
www.yvonneridley.org
The formerly hard-drinking Sunday school teacher became a Muslim after reading the Quran on her release.
Working as a reporter for the Sunday Express in September 2001, Ridley was smuggled from Pakistan across the Afghan border.
But her cover was blown when she fell off her donkey in front of a Taleban soldier near Jalalabad, revealing a banned camera underneath her robes.
Her first thought as the furious young man came running towards her? "Wow - you're gorgeous," she says. "He had those amazing green eyes that are peculiar to that region of Afghanistan and a beard with a life of its own. "
But fear quickly took over. I did see him again on my way to Pakistan after my release and he waved at me from his car."
Ridley was interrogated for 10 days only she says: "I was horrible to my captors. I spat at them and was rude and refused to eat. It wasn't until I was freed that I became interested in Islam."
She said about Taleban "I realised the US doesn't have to bomb the Taleban - just fly in a regiment of women waving their underwear and they will all run off."
Once she was back in the UK, Ridley turned to the Quran as part of her attempt to understand her experience.
Yvonne says "I was absolutely blown away by what I was reading - not one dot or squiggle had been changed in 1,400 years."
Now she converted to Islam, gave up alcohol and cigarettes. wearing hijab, and pray five times a day.
"I have joined what I consider to be the biggest and best family in the world. When we stick together we are absolutely invincible." she says "There are oppressed women in Muslim countries, but I can take you up the side streets of Tyneside and show you oppressed women there, Oppression is cultural, it is not Islamic. The Quran makes it crystal clear that women are equal."
www.yvonneridley.org
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