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Muslim Converts by Jarus(m): 1:12pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
Do you know that Islam is the fastest growing religion in Europe, America and indeed the world? Do you know that millions of people convert to Islam yearly in Europe and America? Are you aware that footballers like Nicholas Anelka, Eric Abidal,Frank Ribery(all french national team players) and Freddie Kanoute have converted to Islam amd are indeed practising Muslim? Kanoute used what was equivalent to his one year salary to buy a mosque in Seville, Spain recently? Former world snooker champion; Mike Tyson;son of former BBC DG;grandson of a former British PM;a former MTV presenter; Cat Stevens (Mexican hip hop singer now known as Yusuf Islam) are other high profile converts: Another list: From Christianity Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[1] Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French soccer player.[2] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[3] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[4] Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[5] Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player[6] Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[7][8] Dawud Wharnsby Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[9][10] Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam to Sufism,[11] famous boxer Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[12] Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[13][14] Nicolas Anelka - French football player[15] Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of March 9, 2006[16] Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[17] David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident,[18] is charged with murder[19] Muhammad Ali- a convert to Islam.Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general, considered a national hero of Poland. [20] Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)[21] Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[22] Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.[23][24] Willie Brigitte - French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.[25] Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[26] Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador; converted from Catholicism.[27] Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[28] David Chappelle - comedian and television star[29] Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam[30] Jimmy Cliff - Jamaican reggae musician.[31][32] Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae musicianAukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[33] Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[34][35][36] Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[37] Muriel Degauque - Belgian suicide bomber[38] Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[39] Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, president of the Islamic Foundation of North America, born into a Protestant family.[40] C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[41] Keith Ellison - American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress[42] Yusuf Estes - former preacher and federal prison chaplain.[43] Yusuf Estes, a convert to Islam, is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims.[43] Chris Eubank British boxerChris Eubank - British boxer[44] Sultaana Freeman - sued the state of Florida for niqab restrictions.[45] Adam Yahiye Gadahn - spokesperson for Al-Qaeda; on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list[46][47] Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, befor converting to Islam Marxist and member of the French Communist Party, who denies the holocaust ever taking place.[48] George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[49] René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics [50] Naveed Afzal Haq- notable for committing the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting on July 28, 2006. Converted to Christianity in 2005 but reverted by the time of the shooting.[51] Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos [52] David Hicks-Australian former rodeo rider, recently released from detenrion in Adelaide. Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholicism, NATO official[53] Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer; converted from Catholicism.[54] Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[55] Ahmed Huber- Swiss Neo-nazi journalist, holocaust denier and terrorist supporter[56] Silma Ihram - Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.[57] Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson.[58] Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine.[59] Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar.[60] Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[61] John Walker Lindh - the American Taliban (convicted terrorist) [62] Raised Roman Catholic, John Walker Lindh later converted to Islam, joined the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan fighting against Americans.[63] Richard Colvin Reid known as the "shoe bomber" was a convert to Islam.[46] Malcolm X- famous Muslim convert and civil rights leader Keith Ellison American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress[42] Hamza Yusuf, head of the Zaytuna Institute Timothy Winter is a prominent British lecturer at the University of Cambridge American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines, Mohammad Webb was a convert.Germaine Lindsay - participated and died in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[64][65][66] Alexander Litvinenko - former Russian spy converted to Islam on his deathbed.[67] [68] Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks; converted from Roman Catholicism.[69] Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006)[70] Lee Boyd Malvo - convicted of capital murder and arrested for the Beltway sniper attacks, for being involved in 16 murders and 7 additional attempted murders.[71] Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author.[72] Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[73] Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[74] Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[75] Daniel Moore - poet [76] Preacher Moss - American comedian and comedy writer.[77] Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - from Catholicism, former boxer.[78] Peter Murphy - vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus. Converted from Catholicism.[79] Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[80] Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[81] John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[82] Prince Buster, Jamaican singer and producer. Queen Noor of Jordan (formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby)[83] Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[84] Emin Pasha - physician, naturalist, and Egyptian governor.[85] Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[86] Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[87] Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist.[88] St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[89] Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[90] William Abdullah Quilliam - poet, ambassador & journalist.[91] Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia. Converted from Catholicism.[92] Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[93] Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[94][95] Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist) [96] Franck Ribéry- a French soccer player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal. [97] Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[98][99] Ahmed Santos - Filipino, from Roman Catholicism, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative[100][101][102] Sana al-Sayegh, dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. Fatah has accused its political rival Hamas of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies. [103] Scarface - American rapper[104] Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[105] Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[106] Zaid Shakir - African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States.[107] Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.[108] Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[109] Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[110] Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[111][112] Danny Thompson - English double bass player; converted from Catholicism.[113] Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[114] Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[115] Top Topham - rock guitarist from England.[116] Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[117] Philippe Troussier - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team[118] Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Chrisitianity.[119] Abu Usamah - controversial American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[120] Siraj Wahaj - African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[121] Danny Williams - British boxer[122] Malcolm X - American, from Christianity to Nation of Islam to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader.[123] Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[124] James Yee - former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[125] Mohammad Yousuf - from Catholicism, Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year.[126] Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox; head of the Zaytuna Institute.[127] Alexander Russell Webb - American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[128] Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[129] Abdulla Webster - former Sergeant First Class in the United States Army who refused to deploy to Iraq.[130] John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[131] Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[132] Zağanos Pasha - one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councilors, protector, for the sultan.[133] Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[134] Omar Sharif - Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films; converted from Catholicism.[135] [edit] From Judaism Main article: History of conversion of Jews to Islam Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock. [136] Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[137] Rashid al-Din - 13th century Persian physician[138] Jemima Khan (Jemima Goldsmith) - ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan, English socialite, a UK ambassador for UNICEF, and former girlfriend of Hugh Grant.[139][140] Jacob Frank - publicly converted to Islam in 1757[141] and to Christianity in Poland but actually presented himself as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabettai Zevi's Messianism. Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.[142] Lev Nussimbaum - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew. [143] Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[144] Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by Aurungzebe.[145] Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations[146] Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - 9th century Persian scholar physician (a hakim), who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine.[147] Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimid From Dharmic religions From Buddhism Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.[149] Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252-1260, March-September 1266).[150] Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.[151] From Hinduism Salma Arastu - Indian artist living in North America. [152] Dhiren Barot - convicted terrorist, who confessed to planning "to detonate a dirty bomb and launch an attack on London's Tube".[153][154][155] Sumita Devi - Bengali actress and filmmaker.[156] Pir Mangho - 14th century Sufi pir.[157] A. R. Rahman (formerly A. S. Dileep Kumar) - famous Indian music composer[158] Parameswara - Malay prince of Palembang Hindu descent from Srivijaya that founded the Sultanate of Malacca around 1402.[159] Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Danish cleric.[160] Sahaj Ram Sapru - the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who was an official in Kashmir during the administration of the Afghan Governor Azim Khan. [161] Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer[162] Sharmila Tagore - renowned Indian film actress from Bengal.[163] From Sikhism Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.[164] Other From Paganism David Myatt - from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist[165] Atik Sinan - Ottoman architect[166] From non-religious to Islam Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.[167] Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.[168] Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)[169] Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)[170][171] Martin Lings - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.[172] Mos Def - American rapper and actor. [173] [edit] Undetermined former religion Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano - French rapper of Congolese origins.[174] Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, convicted murderer.[175][176] B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.[177] Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - French noble.[178] Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.[179] Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[180] Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.[181] Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.[182] Ronald Bell - musician.[183] Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.[184] Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.[185] Bizzy Bone - American rapper.[186] Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[187] Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.[188] H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.[189] Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.[190] Amir Butler- Author, Engineer and Islamic activist.[191] Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped. [192] Common - American rapper.[193] Jill Courtney - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker Hassan Kalache, arrested on March 26, 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people.[194][195][196] Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.[197] Ice Cube - Gangsta rapper and actor.[198] Bob Denard - French mercenary.[199] Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.[200] Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.[201] Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.[202] Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.[203] Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist;[204] converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.[205] Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[206] Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".[207] Philippe Grenier - (1865-1944) French doctor, first and only muslim MP in France.[208].[209] Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.[210] Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.[211] David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.[212] Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.[213] Craig Hodges - former NBA player.[214] Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[215] Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.[216] Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[217] Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysion actress.[218] Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.[219] Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.[220] Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.[221] Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.[222] Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.[223] Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.[224] Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.[225] Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.[226] Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.[227] Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.[228] Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.[229][230][231] Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.[232] Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[233] MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.[234] Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.[235] Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.[236] John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.[237][238] Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer.[239] Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.[240] Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.[241] José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.[242] Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[243] Sokollu Mehmet Paşa - Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.[244] Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.[245][246] Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen), 8th Earl of Yarborough.[247] Q-Tip - North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.[248] Dwight Muhammad Qawi - former boxing world heavyweight champion.[249] Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.[250] Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.[251] Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[217] Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.[252] Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.[253] Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans December 22 at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.[254] Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.[255] |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 3:23pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
this is a sign of a desperate "cult" snatching at straws to remain relevant. A "cult" that knows that it has no power to convict and thus needs to wave a list of its "converts" as bait to draw other unsuspecting victims. |
Re: Muslim Converts by babs787(m): 3:52pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
@davidylan this is a sign of a desperate "cult" snatching at straws to remain relevant. A "cult" that knows that it has no power to convict and thus needs to wave a list of its "converts" as bait to draw other unsuspecting victims. What is your problem ![]() ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 5:09pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
Do you know that most of Islam's growth is by high birth rate due to poverty and lack of exposure not convictions? A man married to 4 wives and girls starting to procreate as young as 9 are bound to have more kids in the long run. Do you know that the so called rapid Islamic growth in the west is by immigration of Muslims from sharia lands? Do you know that most of the converts in the USA are black male criminals in prison for various crimes. Do you know that about 75% of Islam converts leave Islam within one year? Do you know that most female converts to Islam in the west are women married to Muslim men and a large majority leave Islam later on and most leave Islam at the breakdown of the marriage? Do you know that most converts from Islam to Christianity or other religions keep their faith hidden for fear of torture and death? Do you know that it's a death sentence for many to declare a faith outside of Islam. do you know that in many Muslim countries,females and children are counted as Muslims (and carry an identity card that identifies them as such) if their fathers are Muslims irrespective of their religious convictions. Do you know that in Many Muslim countries it's a crime punishable by death to leave Islam. Do you know that millions of African Muslims leave Islam yearly and 6 million of these millions become Christians by the power of God annually in Africa alone and no swords are lifted? We don't need a list,neither do we need propaganda and hype. The truth speaks for itself. Do you know that Jesus is still Lord? |
Re: Muslim Converts by stranger26(f): 5:26pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
Salamu alaykum, ife-eco-06, mashaAllah, good post. Erm, nwando, have you read the book called "Daughters of another Path"? It is quite an enlightening book; its written by a christian woman (a missionary, if I remember correctly) whose daughter converted to Islam. It talks about the results of the mother's research into the conversion of American women to Islam. I would call it an unbiased book because it was written by a christian mother who was aggrieved by her daughter's conversion to Islam. I'd recommend the book for everyone who wants to know about why people convert to islam. |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 5:29pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
stranger26: What really is "good" about the post? The religion of Scientology have Tom Cruise as one of theirs . . . Bill Gates is an atheist . . . does tat make scientology and atheism "good" religions too? stranger26: Ever read "I dared to call him father"? I call it unbiased too because it was written by a muslim woman in a muslim nation. |
Re: Muslim Converts by adekennis(m): 5:49pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
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Re: Muslim Converts by adekennis(m): 5:50pm On Jan 08, 2008 |
Do you know that Islam is the fastest growing religion in Europe, America and indeed the world? Do you know that millions of people convert to Islam yearly in Europe and America? Are you aware that footballers like Nicholas Anelka, Eric Abidal,Frank Ribery(all french national team players) and Freddie Kanoute have converted to Islam amd are indeed practising Muslim? Kanoute used what was equivalent to his one year salary to buy a mosque in Seville, Spain recently? Former world snooker champion; Mike Tyson;son of former BBC DG;grandson of a former British PM;a former MTV presenter; Cat Stevens (Mexican hip hop singer now known as Yusuf Islam) are other high profile converts: Another list: From Christianity Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[1] Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French soccer player.[2] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[3] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[4] Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[5] Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player[6] Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[7][8] Dawud Wharnsby Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[9][10] Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam to Sufism,[11] famous boxer Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[12] Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[13][14] Nicolas Anelka - French football player[15] Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of March 9, 2006[16] Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[17] David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident,[18] is charged with murder[19] Muhammad Ali- a convert to Islam.Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general, considered a national hero of Poland. [20] Muhammad Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)[21] Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[22] Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.[23][24] Willie Brigitte - French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.[25] Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[26] Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador; converted from Catholicism.[27] Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[28] David Chappelle - comedian and television star[29] Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam[30] Jimmy Cliff - Jamaican reggae musician.[31][32] Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae musicianAukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[33] Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[34][35][36] Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[37] Muriel Degauque - Belgian suicide bomber[38] Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[39] Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, president of the Islamic Foundation of North America, born into a Protestant family.[40] C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[41] Keith Ellison - American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress[42] Yusuf Estes - former preacher and federal prison chaplain.[43] Yusuf Estes, a convert to Islam, is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims.[43] Chris Eubank British boxerChris Eubank - British boxer[44] Sultaana Freeman - sued the state of Florida for niqab restrictions.[45] Adam Yahiye Gadahn - spokesperson for Al-Qaeda; on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list[46][47] Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, befor converting to Islam Marxist and member of the French Communist Party, who denies the holocaust ever taking place.[48] George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[49] René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics [50] Naveed Afzal Haq- notable for committing the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting on July 28, 2006. Converted to Christianity in 2005 but reverted by the time of the shooting.[51] Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos [52] David Hicks-Australian former rodeo rider, recently released from detenrion in Adelaide. Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholicism, NATO official[53] Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer; converted from Catholicism.[54] Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[55] Ahmed Huber- Swiss Neo-nazi journalist, holocaust denier and terrorist supporter[56] Silma Ihram - Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.[57] Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson.[58] Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine.[59] Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar.[60] Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[61] John Walker Lindh - the American Taliban (convicted terrorist) [62] Raised Roman Catholic, John Walker Lindh later converted to Islam, joined the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan fighting against Americans.[63] Richard Colvin Reid known as the "shoe bomber" was a convert to Islam.[46] Malcolm X- famous Muslim convert and civil rights leader Keith Ellison American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress[42] Hamza Yusuf, head of the Zaytuna Institute Timothy Winter is a prominent British lecturer at the University of Cambridge American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the USA. in the Philippines, Mohammad Webb was a convert.Germaine Lindsay - participated and died in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[64][65][66] Alexander Litvinenko - former Russian spy converted to Islam on his deathbed.[67] [68] Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks; converted from Roman Catholicism.[69] Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006)[70] Lee Boyd Malvo - convicted of capital murder and arrested for the Beltway sniper attacks, for being involved in 16 murders and 7 additional attempted murders.[71] Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author.[72] Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[73] Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[74] Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[75] Daniel Moore - poet [76] Preacher Moss - American comedian and comedy writer.[77] Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - from Catholicism, former boxer.[78] Peter Murphy - vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus. Converted from Catholicism.[79] Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[80] Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[81] John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[82] Prince Buster, Jamaican singer and producer. Queen Noor of Jordan (formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby)[83] Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[84] Emin Pasha - physician, naturalist, and Egyptian governor.[85] Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[86] Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[87] Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist.[88] St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[89] Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[90] William Abdullah Quilliam - poet, ambassador & journalist.[91] Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia. Converted from Catholicism.[92] Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[93] Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[94][95] Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist) [96] Franck Ribéry- a French soccer player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal. [97] Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[98][99] Ahmed Santos - Filipino, from Roman Catholicism, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative[100][101][102] Sana al-Sayegh, dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. Fatah has accused its political rival Hamas of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies. [103] Scarface - American rapper[104] Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[105] Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[106] Zaid Shakir - African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States.[107] Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.[108] Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[109] Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[110] Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[111][112] Danny Thompson - English double bass player; converted from Catholicism.[113] Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[114] Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[115] Top Topham - rock guitarist from England.[116] Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[117] Philippe Troussier - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team[118] Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Chrisitianity.[119] Abu Usamah - controversial American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[120] Siraj Wahaj - African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[121] Danny Williams - British boxer[122] Malcolm X - American, from Christianity to Nation of Islam to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader.[123] Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[124] James Yee - former US. Army Muslim chaplain.[125] Mohammad Yousuf - from Catholicism, Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year.[126] Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox; head of the Zaytuna Institute.[127] Alexander Russell Webb - American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the USA. in the Philippines.[128] Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[129] Abdulla Webster - former Sergeant First Class in the United States Army who refused to deploy to Iraq.[130] John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[131] Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[132] Zağanos Pasha - one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councilors, protector, for the sultan.[133] Muhammad Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid US. postage stamp.[134] Omar Sharif - Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films; converted from Catholicism.[135] [edit] From Judaism Main article: History of conversion of Jews to Islam Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock. [136] Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[137] Rashid al-Din - 13th century Persian physician[138] Jemima Khan (Jemima Goldsmith) - ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan, English socialite, a UK ambassador for UNICEF, and former girlfriend of Hugh Grant.[139][140] Jacob Frank - publicly converted to Islam in 1757[141] and to Christianity in Poland but actually presented himself as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabettai Zevi's Messianism. Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.[142] Lev Nussimbaum - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew. [143] Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[144] Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by Aurungzebe.[145] Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations[146] Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - 9th century Persian scholar physician (a hakim), who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine.[147] Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimid From Dharmic religions From Buddhism Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.[149] Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252-1260, March-September 1266).[150] Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.[151] From Hinduism Salma Arastu - Indian artist living in North America. [152] Dhiren Barot - convicted terrorist, who confessed to planning "to detonate a dirty bomb and launch an attack on London's Tube".[153][154][155] Sumita Devi - Bengali actress and filmmaker.[156] Pir Mangho - 14th century Sufi pir.[157] A. R. Rahman (formerly A. S. Dileep Kumar) - famous Indian music composer[158] Parameswara - Malay prince of Palembang Hindu descent from Srivijaya that founded the Sultanate of Malacca around 1402.[159] Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Danish cleric.[160] Sahaj Ram Sapru - the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who was an official in Kashmir during the administration of the Afghan Governor Azim Khan. [161] Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer[162] Sharmila Tagore - renowned Indian film actress from Bengal.[163] From Sikhism Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.[164] Other From Paganism David Myatt - from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist[165] Atik Sinan - Ottoman architect[166] From non-religious to Islam Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.[167] Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.[168] Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)[169] Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)[170][171] Martin Lings - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.[172] Mos Def - American rapper and actor. [173] [edit] Undetermined former religion Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano - French rapper of Congolese origins.[174] Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, convicted murderer.[175][176] B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.[177] Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - French noble.[178] Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 US. invasion of Iraq.[179] Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[180] Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.[181] Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.[182] Ronald Bell - musician.[183] Muhammad Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.[184] Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.[185] Bizzy Bone - American rapper.[186] Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[187] Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.[188] H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.[189] Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.[190] Amir Butler- Author, Engineer and Islamic activist.[191] Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped. [192] Common - American rapper.[193] Jill Courtney - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker Hassan Kalache, arrested on March 26, 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people.[194][195][196] Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.[197] Ice Cube - Gangsta rapper and actor.[198] Bob Denard - French mercenary.[199] Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.[200] Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.[201] Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.[202] Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.[203] Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist;[204] converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.[205] Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[206] Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".[207] Philippe Grenier - (1865-1944) French doctor, first and only muslim MP in France.[208].[209] Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.[210] Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.[211] David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.[212] Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.[213] Craig Hodges - former NBA player.[214] Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[215] Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.[216] Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[217] Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysion actress.[218] Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.[219] Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.[220] Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.[221] Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.[222] Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.[223] Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.[224] Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.[225] Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.[226] Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.[227] Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.[228] Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.[229][230][231] Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.[232] Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[233] MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.[234] Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.[235] Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.[236] John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.[237][238] Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer.[239] Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.[240] Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.[241] José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.[242] Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[243] Sokollu Mehmet Paşa - Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.[244] Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.[245][246] Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen), 8th Earl of Yarborough.[247] Q-Tip - North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.[248] Dwight Muhammad Qawi - former boxing world heavyweight champion.[249] Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.[250] Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.[251] Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[217] Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.[252] Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.[253] Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans December 22 at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.[254] Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.[255] na how many days you take type this one ![]() ![]() ![]() na wa oo! ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by Bolubunmi(f): 4:52pm On Jan 09, 2008 |
Alhamdulilai I am a muslim. There is no need to enter into argument about our respected religion of Islam. Islam is a complete religion. If one is lucky to be born a muslim or converted to Islam, then one has achieved a great thing. May we not be misled by Satan after we have accepted Islam, amin. May we die as muslims. Allah is protecting His religion and propagating it, inspite of unrelenting war being waged by the Western world. Allahu Akbar! |
Re: Muslim Converts by dafidixone(m): 5:11pm On Jan 09, 2008 |
Do you know that most of Islam's growth is by high birth rate due to poverty and lack of exposure not convictions? Undiluted truth! Ododo Oro! ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by tina4uj(f): 12:22pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
Hello mr poster, I thank My God for people like (wa" SAT GURUNASARAMA) MR MATINE NWAOSU, who was once lost but now found, and who was blind but found, but has came to know that JEsus Christ is Lord!!! through. did u know that your SO CALLED ALLAH IS A BEING WITH 3 HAND AND 2 HEADS? HE IS NEXT TO NEXT AFTER LUCIFER AND LANDER, THEN FOLLOWED BY (allah) all this being are bein of the dark world. so I quess most muslem don't even know what they worship. recieve JESUS AND BE SAVE!!!!!!!!! |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 3:14pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
olabowale: another dumb and dishonest cop-out. You are comparing islam's present day evil to killings that took place more than 4000yrs ago? ![]() Even as early as a few centuries ago . . . powerful nations of the world propagated their dominance by military conquest over their enemies; the romans, the persians, the babylonians . . . even the hausas and yorubas. The Jews of 4000 yrs ago were simply doing the same thing! |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 3:23pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
Every non muslim has his/her own definition of Allah! They individually, have their discription of the Most Merciful! It is His Mercy being the Most is the reason they have not been destroyed, yet. He feeds them, even though they attach some other thing with Him, or just total deny His existence. Yet, none of what they take instead of Him or along with Him can truly help or harm anything! The sole decision of what a life any would lead, is Allah's alone! No Angel, no Prophet, no son of man, or whatever shares in this! Indeed, no creation can truly utter it! Everyone needs Him, yet He needs no one! This is Allah the Creator of all things. @Davidylan: Your speeches belong to where it belong to. Say something that makes sense. Just don't attack without a good presentation that will show that there is a thought behind it! I know that you are a one way street man. Please make use of that street. Give us a good argument. I want it to come from you, just one time. Not just the bravado that make no sense, whats so ever! So if the Jews or all of these tribes and nations of people did it and still being done as we speak my the people and nations in power, why the complaint of your man about Islam and indeed why are you complaining? david think, before you respond. Don't just do it, like the Nike commercial. See I did not yell at you. But I almost did. |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 3:37pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
And David: Oun to ba jo oun la fi nwe oun. Aron ope o jo alabawun. It is what is similar to the issue of discussion that I used to illustrate the matter. You will read that I had mentioned the current state of war that we find ourselves, today. However, do you have anything that is relevant to the topic! Okay let me start: My present wives, One Yoruba and the other Ibo were both Christians when I met them. Alhamdulillah, they are both Muslims, today! The ibo woman is totally immensed in it! Surprised? hardly, such is the way of the Most Merciful. He is capable of doing all things! Am working on some Hausa fathered but other tribes mothered people who know nothing about Islam. I am dialoguing with them, without being overbearing. My process is that they should present their Christianity to me, as if they are selling it. Then they should let me ask questions, and they should try to answer these questions, even if they have to ask for understanding from others, like their Church leaders. That will be fine with me. We can do this for months and when they realise that they are selling a defective product, then let me present my Islam to them. And they can ask a ton of questions and I will have the same opportunity as to answer or ask my 'Imam,' since I mentioned pastor, for the Christians. This process can drag on for a while, and in the long run,we all have the right to accept or reject! No problem. You and me can do the same, off the Nairaland board! Maybe you can convince me and maybe I will by Allah's will make your heart receive Iddayah; Guidance, that is. |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 3:47pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
olabowale: I am not surprised. Such is the way of "official christians" who have no idea of what the bible is all about, who get unequally yoked with islamic sons of belial. Your wives had no choice but be muslims . . . they are married to you. Its not like they had any choice. Such is the way of the most "merciful". |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 3:54pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
Davidylan, I know alot of Nigerians who are scared of their Christian parents, because these children have inclinations to becoming Muslims. I have been having dialogues off the board, you know! If +osisi had relaxed, today she will be a Muslim woman. She will be wearing silk Abayas, fancy jewelries and all. But the old traditions of hating Islam, probably because those who are considered muslims in the old country stick to the ribs too much. Its like good food to a hungry folk. And David, shed that facade, and lets talk, man to man, without the whole world knowing your 'Buuziness.' Be surprised. God Almighty can surprise you. You are just a step away from becoming Muslim. And the senior wife was married to a very influencial Muslim, in Nigeria, for over 25 years, before she became a widow. In all those years she was a christian. So it is not that I did anything, it is just that the time was up. Your time may just be up, if you let you and me talk to each other as friends, off the board. Afterall, you have my information; use it, dave! |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 4:17pm On Jan 12, 2008 |
Alhaji, dont worry. . . . just that i am busy this weekend but i will find time to talk to you one on one. perhaps you will see the folly in islam. Your senior wife was NEVER a christian, just an official one. A true christian wont break one of the cardinal commandments in the bible . . . wilfully unequaling yoking urself with an unbeliever. |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 2:38pm On Jan 13, 2008 |
She is a Yoruba woman. So we spoke to each other in real Oduduwa tradition. But what about the Igbo Princess, who Allah softened her heart, while she had once hated Islam? She told me that when she hears the call to prayers before she met me, she will have a headache. Just complaining about Islam until its over. When she sees a person performing ablution, her skin will be crawling and she almost will jump from her skin! All of these were happening in her head, until All Merciful brought her to my life! She wanted to take her Shahadah right there and then! See Allah is Powerful and everything else is weak! You are right. I am an unbeliever in 3 in 1 god and the shedding of innocent blood to ransome evildoers, who will become good people and do righteous worship and deeds! Wouldn't it be simple enough to justcommand people to worship rightly and do good deeds, instead of just wasting the life of this innocent man, who reluctantly went to the slaughter?Or if you are going to be just, just forgive them all in their evildoing ways, since you required the blood of this innocent lamb! In short, you will see that it there is any death at all, it has been in vain! The reason is that it does not cover all in their filthy ways, it does not cover any who believes in this slaughter, except the changes his evil way, it does not guarantee Paradise, but maybe heaven to those who believe in the slaughter. And we realise that in heaven there are Paradise and Hellfire. Which one is the destination of the Christains? Further, we see that apart from just believing in this slaughter, Christians do not have a completely common mode of worship that everyone, every sect, every society follow. So you go as many desired directions as you want for your group! The Aladuras and CAC of Nigeria are very good examples. The Seventh day adventist, Jehovah witnesses and Jesuits are also good examples. Yes again, am a disbeliever in the death, cross, blood, resurrection, etc and oh, the diluted/'lost' Bible! But you, davidylan and co are Keferi. That you can not deny! I have a mode of worship, which is salah. There is no Muslim that will say salah is not commanded on him and still remain a Muslim. I have a Jumuah Prayer. No true Muslim can deny its existence and therefore chose another time for its service. I can give you a trillion examples like that; differentiating Islamic ordered premises, and Christianity do as you want, meandering premises! |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 6:16pm On Jan 13, 2008 |
olabowale: Allah softens hearts? Is that why the muslims still have a visceral hatred for the jews for the last 900yrs? olabowale: the islamic penchant for deciet is indeed nauseating. Yes u believe in 1 "god", and so do the hindus and sango worshippers, what is the difference? You cringe at the "shedding of 1 innocent blood" to ransom evil doers and yet rejoice when suicide bombers shed the innocent blood of thousands just for insulting the "prophet"? Sir, you are a most dishonest and dishonorable man if i may say so myself. olabowale: Wouldnt it be simple for allah to merely command that muslim converts to christianity simply re-convert to islam instead of ordering their deaths? You shed too many crocodile tears for the victory of the cross while ignoring the demonic aspects of ur own cult. olabowale: If Christ's death on the cross is in vain, it will be in ur life and the lives of all other incorrigible, stone hearted muslims like you. olabowale: You must be confused. there is hellfire in heaven too? olabowale: you are a disbeliever in the cross because it makes nonsense of your cult. Continue your slavery to the devil. |
Re: Muslim Converts by pilgrim1(f): 6:40pm On Jan 13, 2008 |
@olabowale, olabowale: How could both "Paradise" and "Hellfire" be "in heaven"? ![]() olabowale: Muslims in the different sects of Islam also have diverse modes of worship. Please check with the doctrines of the other Muslim sects that are different from yours, and then I would gladly elaborate if you haven't anything to ponder about. |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 8:15am On Jan 14, 2008 |
@Chatykrew: @ife: I have met born Muslims, with full Muslim parentage, still carrying Muslim names, but they are the Chief Keferis of today, in home and abroad. A good example is Ashimolowo in England. The fakery of that guy. But thats beside the point. Everyone is born a Muslim, because of the Sinlessness of man at birth! This is regardless of the parentage. However, it is the parent that makes that sinless new person, to remain in Islam, even though as he reaches the age of puberty, his deeds are being recorded, or becomes a disbeliever (Keferi). Later on, because of the enviroment that he cultivated his total person, he may die as a believer or a disbeliever (Keferi). And the Muslims believe that your concorted story and positioning of Jesus, as you have defined him above, is a lie. He was his mother's son, though fatherless, but still created by God Almighty, in the same authority that He had in the creation of Adam, then Eve, and all that came before Jesus and after jesus, until the last man! Jesus did not die and hence no sin of anyone did he absorb. You have to die first before you are resurrected. If you are in a coma, then you are resucitated. This dude has made heaven looked as if one is in a theater, where there are seating arrangements, in gradation of importance. Heaven is not a theater or the church, where there some who who are seated at the High table! At least, when you talk about Jesus, you are smart enough to differentiate him from his Creator. Unfortunately, you still have not learnt that he is no son of god, because just do not have any need for one! Having the spirit of god does not make him God. If at all it simply means that God has favored him, and he will not be punished, even though you call him what he is not. He never asked you to call him so! He is free from all that you call him! |
Re: Muslim Converts by goodguy(m): 11:08am On Jan 14, 2008 |
Hey hey! What happened to the other thread?! ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by Nobody: 12:49pm On Jan 14, 2008 |
Alhaji . . . two times this question was put across to you . . . How could both "Paradise" and "Hellfire" be "in heaven"? Twice, like the hypocrite most muslims are, you pretended not to see it. Can you kindly clarify your earlier statement? Here it is reproduced for you: And we realise that in heaven there are Paradise and Hellfire. |
Re: Muslim Converts by luvus: 1:36pm On Jan 14, 2008 |
hi @ola Everyone is born a Muslim, because of the Sinlessness of man at birth! sorry i was never born a muslim please. Later on, because of the enviroment that he cultivated his total person, he may die as a believer or a disbeliever (Keferi). ok if his environment influences him, y not leave him as keferi instead of killing him as muslims do? let him continue in the way he has choosing abi? |
Re: Muslim Converts by timmy7(m): 7:26pm On Jan 14, 2008 |
The antichrist could be coming from islam and will unite the world with their cliche monotheist religion and if you are not abdulai,musa,nojeemu,muslimat etc,you can not trade better still if u cant make use of typical islamic terms like asalaam alaikum,jazakallah ma salaam etc,you might not trade o infact,666 might not be a visible number afterall and might come with other islamic ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by osisi5: 9:32pm On Jan 14, 2008 |
The bible said "they'll be shouting peace,peace,then sudden destruction" Wouldn't surprise us,would it? |
Re: Muslim Converts by olabowale(m): 10:11pm On Jan 14, 2008 |
Kettle calling pot black: Dont forget the Armageddon euphoric grand daddy of all wars that you Christians are going to wage with those who do not 'believe,' in death and ressurrection! Whats happening now is Baby wars, even though cluster bombs, bunker busters are being used. And yet there are still Nuclear bombs, piled up to the ceiling, ready for usage at any moment notice. Tell me who is the greater destroyer? Which camp presently has the ability to destroy with total destruction? |
Re: Muslim Converts by luvus: 9:31am On Jan 18, 2008 |
@ola Later on, because of the enviroment that he cultivated his total person, he may die as a believer or a disbeliever (Keferi). further more, please show in the koran where the above is stated. |
Re: Muslim Converts by Chukacarlo(m): 9:52am On Jan 18, 2008 |
Islam sucks. |
Re: Muslim Converts by pilgrim1(f): 10:15am On Jan 18, 2008 |
Chukacarlo: >>sigh!<< ![]() |
Re: Muslim Converts by samsonola(m): 12:18pm On Jan 23, 2008 |
Islam is not the name of some unique religion presented for the first time by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who should, on that account be called the founder of Islam. The Qur’an states that Islam – the complete submission of man before his one and only Unique Creator – is the one and only faith and way of life consistently revealed by God to humankind from the very beginning. Noah, Solomon, David, Abraham, Moses, Isaac and Jesus – prophets who appeared at different times and places – all propagated the same faith and conveyed the same message of Tawheed (Oneness of God), Risaalat (Prophethood) and Aakhirah (the Hereafter). These prophets of God were not founders of different religions to be named after them. They were each reiterating the message and faith of their predecessors. However, Muhammad (pbuh) was the last Prophet of God. God revived through him the same genuine faith which had been conveyed by all His Prophets. This original message was earlier corrupted and split into various religions by people of different ages, who indulged in interpolations and admixture. These alien elements were eliminated by God, and Islam – in its pure and original form – was transmitted to humankind through Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Since there was to be no messenger after Muhammad (pbuh), the Book revealed to him (i.e. the Qur’an) was preserved word for word so that it should be a source of guidance for all times. |
Re: Muslim Converts by pilgrim1(f): 12:33pm On Jan 23, 2008 |
@samsonola, How body? ![]() samsonola: No doubt, Muhammad is the founder of Islam; and his religion was not known anywhere before Muhammad was born. samsonola: Let me ask you something about the message about God that Moses brought. In Deuteronomy 32:6, this is what Moses said about God: Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Another prophet (Isaiah) was even more bold when he declared: 'Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our Father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.' (Isa. 63:16) Please, only one thing I request of you: before you marry Muhammad to the ranks of the Biblical prophets, can you show me anywhere in the entire tenet of Islam where Muhammad ever knew God as FATHER? I simply want to learn that from you, thank you. ![]() |
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