Showing posts with label converts to Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label converts to Islam. Show all posts

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Sam Harris - Why Are So Many Young Men Converting to Islam?

Aug 8, 2023


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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

While Writing Anti-Islam Book, He Became Muslim! - The Story of Joram Van Klaveren

Sep 15, 2022 | How did Joram Van Klaveren became a Muslim? In this interview, he tells us about his journey to Islam. …

Saturday, May 07, 2022

Why Latinos Are Converting to Islam

Jan 17, 2019 • Latinos are one of the fastest growing groups within Islam in America. VICE's Lee Adams travels to Houston Texas, the home of America's first Islam in Spanish center, to investigate what’s behind this phenomenon and how America’s current political climate might be related.

As a former gang leader, Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher claims that Islam saved his life, inspiring him to found the Islam in Spanish center. He dedicated himself to translating Muslim texts for a Spanish-speaking audience.

We spoke to Jaime and other recent Latino Muslim converts to find out why two of America’s most discriminated groups are coming together.

Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Poor and Desperate, Pakistani Hindus Accept Islam to Get By


THE NEW YORK TIMES: Drawn by jobs or land offered by Muslim groups, some Hindus, facing discrimination and a virus-ravaged economy, are essentially converting to survive.

The Hindus performed the prayer rituals awkwardly in supplication to their new, single god, as they prepared to leave their many deities behind them. Their lips stumbled over Arabic phrases that, once recited, would seal their conversion to Islam. The last words uttered, the men and boys were then circumcised.

Dozens of Hindu families converted in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan. Video clips of the ceremony went viral across the country, delighting hard-line Muslims and weighing on Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu minority.

The mass ceremony was the latest in what is a growing number of such conversions to Pakistan’s majority Muslim faith in recent years — although precise data is scarce. Some of these conversions are voluntary, some not. » | Maria Abi-Habib and Zia ur-Rehman | Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Sunday, May 12, 2019

Conversion by Aversion? Featuring Arnoud van Doorn, Former Member of the Dutch Freedom Party


As far-right parties obsess about the danger Islam presents to the western lifestyle, some Islamic scholars are increasingly concerned about the danger the western lifestyle presents to Islam. Arnoud van Doorn argues that if moderate Muslims don’t step up their game, within the next 20 to 40 years, Islam may be gone from Europe. Are those fears really justified? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Arnoud van Doorn, a former member of the Dutch Freedom Party who converted to Islam and a representative of the Party of Unity in The Hague City Council.

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Dutch Former Anti-Islam MP Says He's Become a Muslim


THE TELEGRAPH: A former far-Right MP who once called Islam "the biggest disease to have hit our country in the last hundred years" has become a Muslim in a shock conversion.

Joram van Klaveren was an MP from 2010 until 2017 for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) led by anti-Islam and anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders. Mr van Klaveren once fiercely advocated Mr Wilders' policies of banning the Koran and closing down mosques.

However, he has now said that he discovered out he had more in common with Islam than he initially thought when he started research for a book criticising the religion, which caused him to completely change his view.

Mr van Klaveren said: "I looked at the Bible on my bookshelf, on the table were books about the Prophet Muhammad. "The prior years I had a big aversion to Islam. When you then have to conclude that you were wrong, it is not a fun moment. But while searching for God I always felt a certain unease. And that slowly disappeared. It felt a bit like coming home in a religious way." » | Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Why Latinos Are Converting to Islam


Latinos are one of the fastest growing groups within Islam in America. VICE's Lee Adams travels to Houston Texas, the home of America's first Islam in Spanish center, to investigate what’s behind this phenomenon and how America’s current political climate might be related.

As a former gang leader, Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher claims that Islam saved his life, inspiring him to found the Islam in Spanish center. He dedicated himself to translating Muslim texts for a Spanish-speaking audience.

We spoke to Jaime and other recent Latino Muslim converts to find out why two of America’s most discriminated groups are coming together.


Sunday, November 26, 2017

African Americans Are Converting to Islam at an Alarming Rate


Prison Planet; Islam, the fastest growing religion In America. According to an estimate conducted in 2016, there were 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States. The census found that the number of Muslims living in the United States increased by a stunning 66.7 percent. Meanwhile, Christian denominations lost members. Sadly, when Barack Obama once said that “we are no longer a Christian nation” he wasn’t too far off the mark. Christianity is rapidly losing influence, and Islam is rapidly gaining members and building new places of worship. As Islam continues to grow in the United States, it is inevitable that Islam will reshape America.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Lindsay Lohan on Converting to Islam | Good Morning Britain


A Growing Number of Latinas Are Converting to Islam


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is projected to become the second largest religion in the United States. There are 200,000 Latino Muslims living in the U.S. and a growing number of Latinas are converting to the religion. So, in this election cycle when attacks are being fielded left and right, imagine being a woman, Latina, and a Muslim. We spoke to some about why they decided to convert and the struggles they've faced.

Sunday, November 06, 2016

A Growing Number of Latinas Are Converting to Islam


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is projected to become the second largest religion in the United States. There are 200,000 Latino Muslims living in the U.S. and a growing number of Latinas are converting to the religion. So, in this election cycle when attacks are being fielded left and right, imagine being a woman, Latina, and a Muslim. We spoke to some about why they decided to convert and the struggles they've faced.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

An Interview with an African American Who Converted to Islam Then Left It


Chelsea is an African American who was searching for truth and meaning for his life; he thought he found it in Islam, he converted to Islam and tried to live as a devout Muslim, when he got to know Islam deeply he started doubting it, then later on he left it to be a true Christian. Find out why he converted and why he left Islam and embraced Christianity.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

French Jews Are Converting to Islam and Even Joining ISIS


ARUTZ SHEVA: According to reports from Jewish leaders in France, there is concern about a rise in conversions to Islam from within the Jewish community.

According to reports from Jewish community leaders in France, there is growing concern about a rise in conversions to Islam from within the Jewish community, with the active encouragement of French Moslems.

Sammy Ghozlan, head of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism in France says he knows of cases where entire families converted to Islam. The 15-year-old daughter of a Jewish doctor wrote that "all the Jews must be killed" after converting. » | Yoel Domb | Thursday, September 15, 2016

Saturday, August 06, 2016

The Changing Face of Germany : The Story of a Muslim Convert


Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. All across the globe different individuals from different cultures and backgrounds are embracing Islam. Many are from Western countries. Each new convert has a story, a journey and a reason. And each has experienced significant changes in their lives. Many describe the experience as being born anew and some simply can’t find the words to explain. Isabelle Wachter is amongst the many Muslim converts in Europe. She is a German lawyer and mother of three. In this documentary she will share her story of converting to Islam and her new life as a Muslim woman in the German society.