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Americans Converted to Islam

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Americans Converted to Islam17 Feb 2012 i !]]> About 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually, a P.TV correspondent in Washington said. “It was learning about God and our creator that really inspired me, from Malcolm X and from what I read about Islam, to come back to our natural state of believing,” a recent convert to Islam, Umar Abdul Wahab, told the correspondent. Here is a documentary about it. ...

Journey of the Soul

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bigstockphoto.comSource: By Marjorie Cowan/"Haj and Umra"magazine/October 2009 HAJ, the Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah, is an intensely personal journey, which challenges the individual in many ways. First, there is a physical challenge of having to adapt to a severe scorching hot desert climate. There is an emotional challenge of being overjoyed one moment and sometimes fearful the next; a psychological challenge of adjusting to the culture; and many times even a spiritual challenge. My longings to make this pilgrimage began well before I set foot on an airplane to Saudi Arabia. So for me, the spiritual aspects were the seeds that were planted even prior to my conversion to Islam. When I was a college student in a small Mid-western town,...

37 Hindus convert to Islam in Matli

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By Sameer Mandhro : The Express Tribune | Karachi /Dec. 13/2011On Saturday, 37 people from seven Hindu families converted to Islam in Matli. They claim that more families will be embracing the religion in the coming weeks. In the last 22 months, around 93 families from the Bheel community ie Dalits or untouchables, approached the Bait-us-Salam Madrassa in Matli to convert. Most of these people work as farmers and are from Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Mirpurkhas or Sanghar. “We were neither Muslim nor Hindu,” said a newly converted Abdullah Shaikh. “We had no knowledge of our religion. I haven’t even seen our sacred book and don’t even know what it’s called.” He added that Muslims and Hindus both usually stay away from them and their attitude...

Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam

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Sean Stone, the son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and a defender of Iranian President converted to IslamBy Tim Molloy | Reuters | New York | 14 Feb 2012 Sean Stone, the son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and a defender of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, converted to Islam on Tuesday while filming a documentary in Iran, he told Agence France Presse. "The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with. It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets," Stone, whose famous father is Jewish and mother is Christian, told AFP. He underwent the ceremony in the city of Isfahan. The 27-year-old did not say why he converted. Iran's Fars news agency said he had become a Shiite and...