10 दिन की तालिबान की कैद में इस्लाम को समझ गयीं Yvonne’s passage to Islam started with the promise she made to the Taliban that, once freed, she would read the Quran (the book Muslims believe to be God’s word). “The fulfillment of this promise turned very soon to a spiritual journey for me,” she says, “because, after having finished reading this book, I started an academic exercise and read the supporting literature.”
When initially reading the Quran, Yvonne recalls, she intended to find out “how it teaches men to beat their wives”. But she emerged entranced. “The Quran makes it crystal clear that women are equal to men in spirituality, worth and education,” she realized.
Gradually, she began adopting Islamic practices and cutting out un-Islamic customs like alcohol and cigarettes. “I had a battle with cigarettes which I finally won – at last,” she jokes.
Yvonne also began covering her head, finding it “liberating not to be judged by the size of her legs”.
The grades used – largely by Western media – to measure the levels of Islam such as ‘moderate Muslim’ and ‘Islamist’, are nonsense in her eyes. “What is a moderate and what is an extremist? I really don’t know,” she says. “I am a simple Muslim. I follow no scholars or sects. I merely follow the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunnah (the Arabic word for Prophet Muhammad’s tradition). Does that make me an extremist?
“I once said being a Muslim is a bit like being pregnant. You are or you are not. Whoever heard of anyone being moderately or extremely pregnant?”
Yvonne strongly opposes distortions and manipulations about Islam.
REJECTED OFFER OF MOVIE : WHY READ BELOW....
She once declined an offer by a Hollywood producer who, after having read her book, In the hands of the Taliban, expressed an interest in making a film, but had misinterpreted the Taliban as “dirty, filthy, stinking Arabs”.
“First of all, the Taliban are not dirty filthy stinking Arabs as you call them,” Yvonne replied her. “They’re largely from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Furthermore, they were all very handsome young men.”
When her agent then insisted on Yvonne to agree for producing the story, she said, “I never had money in my life, so I don’t know what I’m missing, but there is no way I am going to allow somebody with such a narrow vision to do that story, because it would be totally distorted.”
It seems that, if not confiscated, Yvonne’s camera would have pictured the Afghans from a different perspective than many others’. But her pen did.
source :
http://islamgreatreligion.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/in-the-company-of-taliban-a-must-read-true-story/
Dont stop sharing,share specially with other religion who thinks talibans are bad... and may Allah reward u for sharing truth.ameen.
Dr. Zakir Naik speaks about Yvonne Ridley (Urdu/Hindi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnfvm6uSe0
Taliban Ki Qaid Main By Yvonne Ridley
طالبان کی قید میں رہنے والی ایک جاسوس عورت "یوآنے رڈلے" کی کہانی خود اس کی زبانی، جو کہ بعد میں مسلمان ہو گئی۔ پڑھنے کے لیے ابھی بالکل مفت ڈاونلوڈ کریں۔
http://www.jamiah-hafsa.com/download.php?filename=books/Talibankiqaidmen.pdf
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