Dienekes points me this programme over at the BBC titled "A Muslim in the Family" that profiles Western converts to Islam. This woman in particular intrigued me:

Yvonne Ridley was the journalist captured by the Taliban while reporting undercover in Afghanistan, soon after 9/11.

Held on spying charges, she feared she would be stoned. Instead, she was treated with respect.

She promised her captors that, after her release, she would study Islam.

She read the Koran looking for an explanation of the Taliban's treatment of women, only to find there wasn't any. "It's a magna carta for women!"

Another illustration of the reality that humans can re-work almost anything in their own image. The idea of "memeplexes" is problematic for me when a complex of ideas, "A," can imply beliefs B or C or D or E or F...and so forth.