Ali Dawah - January 16, 2019


WHY BRITISH WOMAN CHOOSE ISLAM？ - LAUREN BOOTH


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

112.46559

Word Count

286

Sentence Count

28

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

In this episode, I speak with my sister-in-law, who is the first Muslim woman to become a British Prime Minister. She talks about her life growing up in a Muslim household and how she overcame the challenges of being a Muslim woman in modern day Britain.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Before my son say, Tony Blair, he used to say,
00:00:03.480 Muslim, I can't believe. Really.
00:00:06.260 To them it's very weird. It's like, why would someone like that?
00:00:08.780 I can't believe. Because I'm related to Tony Blair.
00:00:12.240 But to them it's like any English woman.
00:00:14.900 Oh, like the English woman thing.
00:00:16.920 Yeah, someone like that.
00:00:18.440 You know what? When you speak to your friends and your family
00:00:22.840 and they ask about someone like me,
00:00:25.740 just tell them the only things that were taken away from me
00:00:30.340 were what was bad for me.
00:00:32.900 So when we talk about you gave up your freedom,
00:00:36.140 the freedom to get drunk,
00:00:37.620 the freedom to be around men who don't care about me
00:00:40.220 and I don't care about,
00:00:41.780 the freedom to swear,
00:00:43.320 the freedom to eat meat which is really a sickness for you,
00:00:47.160 the freedom to be self-obsessed,
00:00:49.480 the freedom to be mean,
00:00:50.340 the freedom to not care for others.
00:00:51.920 What freedom?
00:00:52.880 The freedom to smoke, the freedom to drink,
00:00:54.620 the freedom to take drugs.
00:00:55.580 I don't want those.
00:00:57.300 They brought nothing to my life
00:00:59.020 and my family's life.
00:01:00.020 You see it in your community, you know,
00:01:23.680 the mad, the passions,
00:01:27.360 you know, you've got to have something,
00:01:28.920 you know, everything's got to be like such high
00:01:31.140 or you're not alive
00:01:32.080 unless you're getting this adrenaline rush.
00:01:33.920 I was an adrenaline junkie
00:01:35.660 and it gets exhausting.
00:01:38.400 It goes through, you know.
00:01:39.160 And I guess you can't do English, right?
00:01:42.120 Yeah, you're English.
00:01:43.200 You are?
00:01:43.620 Yeah.
00:01:44.160 Yeah, okay.
00:01:45.200 Not Irish.
00:01:46.280 Well, I have Irish roots.
00:01:48.180 Yeah, for sure.
00:01:49.260 Yeah.
00:01:49.380 Well, you know, I think I read somewhere
00:01:59.340 that Booth is a Viking name.
00:02:00.820 Really?
00:02:01.440 Yeah.
00:02:02.040 I'm interested.
00:02:02.540 I'm interested.
00:02:02.600 Thank you.