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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:
In real life people can usually tell whose behavior doesn't jive and whose is sincere. It is more difficult to tell on the net though.As a convert I do not expect this and so my ears perked up when I learned all this silliness.
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
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.
Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? It isn't Christianity. According to the latest U.S. Religion Census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The data for the census was compiled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, and the results were released by the Association of Religion Data Archives. From the year 2000 to the year 2010, the census found that the number of Muslims living inside the United States increased by about 1 million to 2.6 million - a stunning increase of 66.7 percent. That is an astounding rate of growth. Meanwhile, most Christian denominations had rates of growth that were far below the overall rate of population growth in the United States, and some Christian denominations actually 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 other religions such as Islam are rapidly gaining members and building new places of worship. As other major religions such as Islam continue to grow in the United States, it is inevitable that this will reshape America in many different ways in the years ahead.
Americans only have themselves to blame. Had their politics, govt etc not messed the world up from Nagasaki to Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, ppl might be more welcoming to Americanos.
Americans only have themselves to blame. Had their politics, govt etc not messed the world up from Nagasaki to Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, ppl might be more welcoming to Americanos.
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