It takes a person with tremendous persuasive powers to convince a woman to convert religion in a short space of time, like a plane ride.
https://www.everydaymuslim.org/blog/aeroplanes-and-heiresses... But maybe Gladys was already investigating religions
Gladys, who had previously converted to Catholicism and Christian Science, had firm ideas about how her conversion to Islam should go. She wanted it performed ‘on no earthly territory’ so in 1932 she chartered a plane to fly from Croydon to Paris and Khalid performed the ceremony over the Channel
So yes, she was already investigating religions and this appears to have been her idea.
“I particularly wanted to become a Moslem in an aeroplane” she is quoted as saying to a journalist who was on the flight with her, “so that I might be as far from earth and as near to heaven as possible.”
Sounds rather like a case of main character syndrome of a bored socialite than that she needed much persuasion to convert.
I suspect you have a different notion of what conversion meant than Gladys did. For you it seems to be about internal beliefs; for her it was about external declaration, ceremony, and recognition. Likely beliefs had very little to do with the whole thing.
I was very surprised when I read the article. He's talking about the Assyrians. Lamashtu is known as Albasti among Turks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Basty. The Assyrians are a nation that lived in the Middle East before the Turks appeared in Mongolia. Interestingly, Lamashtu and Albasti sound similar.
If the Mongol attacks had reached the west. First time, the Mongols would kill all the peasants outside the castles and city walls. Or the peasants would join the mongols. The absence of peasants meant the cities were starving.
This is normal behavior.
Some early Roman emperors also dreamed of becoming like Alexander the Great.
Today Putin dreams of becoming like Napoleon Bonaparte.
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