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I read the Koran every day, says former prime minister Tony Blair who claims it keeps him 'faith-literate'
By IAN DRURY / UPDATED: 10:47 GMT, 13 June 2011
He was notoriously reluctant to discuss religion while Prime Minister, with his chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell famously commenting: ‘We don’t do God.’
But since leaving Downing Street in 2007, Tony Blair has become increasingly open about the importance of religion.
Mr Blair, who converted to Catholicism months after leaving Number 10, has now spoken of how he reads the Koran every day.
Lauren Booth: “A member of the Muslim Ummah, no longer a spectator from the outside”
By AMAL AL-SIBAI / UPDATED: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:29 PM
More than 5,000 people in Britain convert to Islam on average each year, most of them women. Academic studies in the United Kingdom have shown that, contrary to popular belief, these conversions are not driven mostly by marriage; most converts are attracted by the values of Islam.
Two years ago, Lauren Booth announced her conversion to Islam. Lauren Booth is a British broadcaster, journalist, and human rights activist. She is the half-sister of Cherie Blair, wife of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She is currently penning her eagerly awaited autobiography ‘Journey to Islam’.
In her writings, Lauren Booth tells how she embraced Islam and how one day she realized that she was a member of the Muslim Ummah, and no longer a spectator from the outside.
