Sunday, April 12, 2015

Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II

Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II

News Hour:

Noor Inayat Khan led a very unusual life. She was born in 1914 to an Indian Sufi mystic of noble lineage and an American half-sister of Perry Baker, often credited with introducing yoga into America. As a child, she and her parents escaped the chaos of revolutionary Moscow in a carriage belonging to Tolstoy’s son. Raised in Paris in a mansion filled with her father’s students and devotees, Khan became a virtuoso of the harp and the veena, dressed in Western clothes, graduated from the Sorbonne and published a book of children’s tales — all before she was 25.

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