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glo
I don't fully understand the story. Was he a genuine revert who worked for the CIA because he was against extremism in Islam? Or did he just pretend to be a revert to Islam?
I hope this story won't impact badly on reverts and make 'born Muslims' suspicious of their fellow Muslims who have reverted ... :hmm:
I agree with you. I think there is already some degree of mistrust with converts because I have heard that many born Muslim families do not like to marry their daughters off to convert Muslim men. I have also heard when born Muslims are illegal in a country do not like for the reverts to know because they fear they will report them. Which seems silly.
Also I have heard that in Egypt that some people (few) actually do not like reverts because they feel they are not sincere. This may be a case with just a few but it kind of surprised me. A fellow Egyptian was married to an American convert and an acquaintance had invited him over for dinner (not knowing his wife was American) when he found out. The dinner was cancelled stating the fact of his wife was American.
As a convert I do not expect this and so my ears perked up when I learned all this silliness.
I just wish that blonde boy at Motel 6 in Bakersfield, CA who denied me a room based on I am a Muslimah wearing hijab that he knew all that we have to contend with in our lives..
To the person who posted this:
"Many non-Muslim men live life of sex and booze before reverting. Even though their sins are forgiven after conversion, decent families still want to be cautious while marrying their precious daughters off. You might think it is not right but everyone has the freedom to impose whatever restrictions on their families within the lines of Sharia. "
If GOD can forgive them and families cannot; I think they are making a grave error.