Little-known British Muslim WWII spy story
comes to film
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/19/2021 9:39:25 PM
Noor Inayat Khan, a British Muslim woman who was the first female radio espionage operator infiltrated into Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War, is about to get her 17 minutes of fame. The little-known story of Ms. Khan, executed at the Dachau concentration camp, will premiere at a Los Angeles cinema on Friday. Though offered evacuation from Paris when her espionage network collapsed, Ms. Khan chose to stay and transmit information to Britain’s Special Operations Executive, a secret British force sometimes called “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” The 17-minute short film “Liberté,” which takes its name from the spy’s reported last word,
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If not for the efforts of Noor Inayat Khan, today's Muslims of Greater Londonistan would be speaking German instead of Arabic dialects right now.