{"id":5289,"date":"2014-09-15T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:20:42","slug":"muslim-woman-defies-nazis-in-wwii-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/09\/muslim-woman-defies-nazis-in-wwii-france.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Woman Defies Nazis in WWII France"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X2nM12xbAUM?rel=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s a riveting story about a Muslim woman who defied the Nazis in 1940 and \u00a0paid for it with her life.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Noor Inayat Khan, a French Muslim, fled to England in 1940 when the Germans occupied Paris. There, she joined Churchill\u2019s Special Operations Executive (SOE)as a wireless operator.<\/p>\n<p>Her work supported the French underground. It was very dangerous because Germans often tracked their signals. \u00a0Telegraphers, like Khan, did not survive longer than six weeks. She was murdered in Dachau in 1944.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">She was posthumously awarded the highest civilian and military honors in Britain and France.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Journalist and writer, Michael Wolfe, tells Khan\u2019s story in a new documentary for PBS called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enemyofthereich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story<\/a>. Helen Mirren narrates.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Wolf wrote an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/09\/08\/meet-the-muslims-who-sacrificed-themselves-to-save-jews-and-fight-nazis-in-world-war-ii\/?wpisrc=nl-opt\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> excellent story in the\u00a0Washington Post <\/a>about Khan called \u201cMeet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Wolfe is a Muslim who in 2010 produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dOlGoiGrSA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">an excellent documentary <\/a>for Nightline about the hajj.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a riveting story about a Muslim woman who defied the Nazis in 1940 and \u00a0paid for it with her life. 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