Thought this was interesting.. I had heard her name before but didn’t really know much about her..
‘On Thursday afternoon, in a corner of Bloomsbury, Princess Anne unveiled Britain’s first memorial to an Asian woman. The bust is of Noor Inayat Khan, a woman who was a pioneer in so many things: an Indian princess who was also a gifted harpist; a Sufi who wrote Buddhist fables for children; an anti-imperialist who spied for the British empire – and the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France. As great-great-great granddaughter of Tipu Sultan, the Muslim ruler who heroically held back the East India Company, Khan told her army bosses that she might very well fight the British in India. But in Paris she ran a spy ring: a role so dangerous she was expected to live only six weeks. When the Gestapo did catch her, they tortured her for 10 months – but she did not give up a thing. Khan was one of the 2.5 million Indians who formed the single-biggest volunteer army in the second world war. They all deserve commemoration.’
^^‘Indeed, Noor shocked - and maybe rather impressed - the interview panel when she went for an WAAF commission in 1942 by arguing that, after the war, she might feel obliged to fight the British in India. That makes her - although a commissioned British officer, and a holder of the George Cross - a curious national heroine.’
Is there any proof that she was indeed Muslim (I mean besidies her name)?
**There are lots of Muslims name people born to couples with one member being Muslim but they are NOT muslims by practice or their choice or if influenced by one parent who is not muslim.
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She was not even Indian. Born in Russia in 1914 to an Indian and an American.
Her father dies when she was apparently 13 years old (1927).
She is said to be sufi but was assigned to bomber training school in 1941?
Is this the Sufism/or being Sufi Pacifist person which McPendo is proud of?
