Then she wouldn’t have to notice anyone noticing her.

And shoving knitting needles into her ears would liberate her from the possibility of wolf whistles.

And chopping off her own feet would free her from the need to have to walk in front of infidels.

She may be on to something all Muslims should consider-

Body Reduction Liberation.

Whittled down to a mouth and an anus, they would be as free as any being could be.

One spoon and one sqaure of toilet tissue- freedom!

(I think there’s probably even a verse in the Koran that calls for it.)

I guarantee that there are far more Muslim to Christian conversions than to secular. I know quite a few “undercover” missionaries who operate in Muslim countries, and they do have successes

Certainly true in the mideast Freelancer, but I wonder if Muslim to Christian converts are higher than people just going secular in Europe.

So now the question is, who is recyling this old story as “news” and why?

Or maybe Reuters is really, really behind and is just catching up?

Maybe they’ll tell us about the progress that’s being made in Iraq sometime around December 2008, just in time to get pick out outfits for Hillary or Obama’s Inaugural Ball.

Here is WaPo’s story from March 20006 about the celebrity convert. Be sure to click on the photo. Open your windows first for a little fresh air.

Here is an account from Arab News from the same time as the WaPo piece

On the streets of Breda, covered by her veil, Frank stands out as an anomaly — a curiosity to some, a freak to others…A few weeks ago, her middle son, 7-year-old Ismail, pleaded with her, “Why don’t you take it off? The children are laughing at you at school.”…“I won’t take it off,” she insisted. “For me, it’s like driving a car without a seat belt.”

Yeah. It’s really liberating. Kinda like a suicide run.

My guess is they are more common than you think, at least I’ll wager there are a good number of muslim to secular “conversions” for lack of a better term being that Europe is pretty secular, but you probably won’t see press for it because it doesn’t fit the media narrative, or its possible they keep quiet because they don’t wanna risk being harrassed or worse by the local radicals.

I guarantee that there are far more Muslim to Christian conversions than to secular. I know quite a few “undercover” missionaries who operate in Muslim countries, and they do have successes. But your point remains very true, that will never get media attention, and for two very different reasons. The first being that the convert knows they are under threat of death for defying Islam, so they are perfectly happy keeping it on the hush until they are somewhere relatively free and safe. The second is, as you say, it doesn’t fit the agenda, so it doesn’t exist in the MSM world.

She’s probably a double bagger.

roninacreage on April 26, 2007 at 4:43 PM

Don’t you mean “double hijab-er.”

I knew I have seen the convert before

Ripclawe on April 26, 2007 at 7:13 PM

Good catch. So evidently she’s the media’s go-to Dutch convert when they need some good copy for a story about how it’s hard out there for a European Muslim.

Other times, she gets so fed up that she yanks up her hand under her robe like it’s a pistol and shouts, “Boom!”

Are we supposed to find it spunky and endearing that she’s goofing on her fellow citizens’ justifiable edginess about Muslims in their midst (given events in the Netherlands in the recent past)?

But I wonder if her mettle won’t be better tested down the road if she ever chooses to stop wearing the hijab

But that, I definitely agree with.

Well thats because he knows now that he has to open up a can of whoop ass on her, or he will look bad with the Imams.

americaslaststand on April 26, 2007 at 6:19 PM

I was thinking something more along the lines of “Crackhead. Do you think I would’ve married a hot blonde and earned the lifelong disdain of my family, if I’d known I’d still have to look at that thing?”

I highly doubt he would’ve married a blonde Dutch cutie if he was highly religious.

Dutch Convert to Islam: Veiled and Viewed as a ‘Traitor’

By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, March 19, 2006; A21

BREDA, Netherlands — Rabi’a Frank sees her Dutch home town through the narrow slit of the black veil that covers her face.

Because it reads like some sort of bizarre press release.

Allahpundit on April 26, 2007 at 4:52 PM

Islam has apparently hired one hell of a good PR agent.

I don’t know how the guy does it – you’d think decapitating people and knocking down buildings would be a sure-fire way to lose points in the polls.

Yet somehow stories like this keep popping up. Somehow the djimmis are taking over the world, one puff piece at a time.

It’s impressive. Whoever this master spinmeister is, he makes Karl Rove look like a piker.

Don Imus and Alec Baldwin should hire the guy.

NOT!!!

Tanya on April 26, 2007 at 6:11 PM”

Well thats because he knows now that he has to open up a can of whoop ass on her, or he will look bad with the Imams.

Good News: Female Genital Mutilation Relatively Under Control

Enrique on April 26, 2007 at 5:20 PM

Did shaky ol’ Dr. Abu retire?

I love that her Muslim husband was against the idea.