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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/muslims-good-for-uk-cherie-sister.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Muslim convert Lauren Booth said her sister Cherie Blair believes it is 'a great faith'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-muslims-good-for-uk-cherie-sister.jpg" alt="Muslim convert Lauren Booth said her sister Cherie Blair believes it is 'a great faith'"/></a></p>
<p>The sister-in-law of former Labour prime minister Tony Blair has said a rise in the number of Muslims in Britain would be &#8220;good for the country&#8221;.</p>
<p>Journalist Lauren Booth &#8211; sister of Mr Blair&#8217;s wife Cherie &#8211; converted to Islam last year.</p>
<p>And she told a conference in Colchester, Essex, that since becoming a Muslim she was a &#8220;better worker&#8221; and a &#8220;better mother&#8221; to her two daughters.</p>
<p>She told the University of Essex&#8217;s annual Islamic Conference that Britons were &#8220;seeking not to be afraid&#8221; of Muslims and wanted Muslims &#8220;to be happy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Booth was asked how Mr and Mrs Blair had reacted to her conversation and said: &#8220;My sister &#8230; recognises that it is a great faith that people follow. Tony Blair is Tony Blair.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If the number of British Muslims increases you should know it will be only good for the country,&#8221; Ms Booth told the conference, in a lecture entitled My Journey to Islam.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am a better community person, I am a better worker, I am a better mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Booth said she had been &#8220;scared&#8221; of Arabs, and &#8220;probably&#8221; of Muslims. She said that given the amount of &#8220;one-sided news&#8221; people absorbed it was hard for Britons not to be prejudiced.</p>
<p>But she told the conference, called Islam: Fear or Not to Fear, that British non-Muslims &#8220;wanted it to be OK&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are seeking not to be afraid of us,&#8221; said Ms Booth. &#8220;The British people want us to be happy in their community. The British people are pretty good, you know. We all really want this to work.&#8221;</p>
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