Fair, Why Not?

[spathiphyllum]

https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/17/muslim-war-heroine-could-be-first-ethnic-minority-to-front-50-note-8047000/?ito=article.amp.share.bottom.twitter&;fbclid=IwAR3Lxux73jLKTAVFDM_-43tKJ7Vrb0a-dNKcVUaKaLLFvB7oSwClEK3x0yw

[kvalidir]

I don't see why not she's a very honourable candidate. I'd also like to see Alan Turing on a note mind you x

[spathiphyllum]

Louis Theroux for me.

[spathiphyllum]

Or Attenborough

[spathiphyllum]

From the article regarding Noor:

"She was eventually captured but despite repeatedly being tortured by Nazis, she refused to give up any information about Britain. It eventually led to her death at Dachau concentration camp. Her apparent final word, after a savage beating, was ‘Liberte’."

What a woman.

[SparklyKid]

Enoch Powell for me.

[retrocop]

Spath

Of the 38 French women who returned to their homeland in secret almost a third were captured and executed.

All these women went back to France and worked as Agents for SOE. They could equally be considered including Odette.

[spathiphyllum]

Retro that is fair but...


"She single handedly ran a network of secret agents in France, despite the threat of being caught by the Gestapo, helping to save the lives of countless people across Europe."

She ran a network of agents.

[retrocop]

They all took the same risks to achieve the same goal. Her courage is undeniable and she is a worthy candidate as are all the others.
I cannot help but feel she was nominated not for what she did but who she worshipped.

[anneasquith]

Why the need to describe her as muslim? Doubt you will see someone described Catholic heroine ?

[Mamyalynne]

There have been some very deserving names put forward in this quest - so hard to choose.

[ChillDoubt]

As I said in a previous thread, would prefer one of these:

IK Brunel
Sir Frank Whittle
Alan Turing

[goodgoalie]

Too male, too white

[spathiphyllum]

"They all took the same risks to achieve the same goal. Her courage is undeniable and she is a worthy candidate as are all the others. "

Like every man in the war, however those who guided and lead got more awards than others.

[retrocop]

Anneasquith
Perhaps you can supply an explanation why any of these were not equally considered then.These are a few of many more.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5527755/French-female-spies-worked-British-secret-service.html

[AuntLydia]

Stephen Hawking should be on one.

[spathiphyllum]

Retro maybe making a female Muslim the person to be on the £50 note will take away peoples ignorance who assume neither were not involved in the war?

[retrocop]

Spath
Yes. Ok

[Mamyalynne]

Nominations have flooded in, from the sublime to the ridiculous - I personally haven't contributed.

[-Talbot-]

A Muslim Sufi pacifist who began her career as a children’s writer living in Paris with her family, Noor was an unlikely candidate to fight in World War Two



was she a pacifist or did she fight in WW2

[Spicerack]

Wouldn't British Muslims consider this an insult?