Brothers converts' stories

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Below a collection of converts' stories which are enlightening, heart-warming and inspiring in equal measure. These new Muslims come from a variety of backgrounds. They include intellectuals, scientists, priests, and artists, young and old, from around the globe. Most of these converts are former Christians or from a Christian background. These testimonies only represent a drop in the ocean however, since every day hundreds of people convert to Islam all around the world. Amongst the most powerful and thought-provoking testimonies are those of former Christian priests and missionaries who have discovered the one true religion.
Name A. Greene A. LeBlanc A. Paguta A. Tagamolila A. Thomas Aaron Greenwich Aaron Sellers Abd al-Hayy Abdul Aziz Sir Abdullah Abdullah B. Abdullah Reda Abdullah Uemura Abdul-Haqq Abdullah alFaruq Abdul Lateef Abdul-Rashid AbdusSalam Sipes Home UK ? Philippines Philippines USA USA USA USA VA, USA UK UK ? Japan Brunei/UK USA USA CA, USA CA, USA Prior Belief Roman Catholic Christian Christian Catholic Christian background Christian Baptist Zen Buddhist Baptist Christian ? Catholic ? Protestant/Anglican Pentecostal Protestant background Catholic Christian Christian Muslim Military Members A former member of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). His homepage Abd-ul-Waahid 'Bruce' Paterson Formerly known as D.T.F. Wong Former Minister and Elder of the Pentecostal Church ! "I finally found the answer to the .. question of the meaning of life" Notes/Quotes Abdur Raheem Greene, the well known caller to Islam. Video here "..the Bible led me to Islam". Important reading for truth seekers Later moved to Saudi Arabia "As a Roman Catholic, I had been very religious since childhood" CEO, The Islamic Investment Banking Unit, United Bank of Kuwait "I started this letter as a Christian but I end it as a Muslim" "The impact of [4:157] was to dramatically change my life" Published poet and writer under the name Daniel Moore "I began to ask Allah to show me the straight path" Statesman and Baronet

Abd-ul-Waahid UK

Abu Cuyler Abu Kadr

Chicago, USA CA, USA

Agnostic Christian Catholic Christian/Agnostic

"Islam taught me how to live, and how to pray" Former Death Row inmate, now Imam of a mosque "I read it [the Qur'an], and I was .. convinced that it was the truth" "IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN READ THIS"

Adam Knoerzer USA Adam Wilson Ahmad Michigan, USA Michigan, USA

Christian background "It seems like I have always been a Muslim" Born-again Christian Catholic ? Protestant ? Roman Catholic Former Sunday School teacher & full-time ministry worker "How can we be monotheists yet believe in trinity?" Catholic family background An American scientist Ali Muhammad Mori "I have found the Straight Path and InshaAllah I will never leave it" "..trinity - it just did not make sense to me" Testimony of a 14th century CE scholar and priest ! Guided to true Islam, after a spell with Farrakhan's racist cult "Islam abolishes racism, and promotes peace, and equality" "I had .. studied comparative religion .. but refused to accept Islam" Ph.D. History & Politics. Imprisoned twice by Polish Communists His homepage United Church of Canada. See the Vietnamese Muslims' Homepage

Ahmed Corpus Philippines Ali A. Dr. Ali Benoist Ali Campbell Ali Mori Ali Omair Andrew W. Smith Anselm Tormeeda Antoine L. Mason Austin Dr. B. Abdul Alim Bogdan Kopankski USA France USA Japan USA

Midwest USA Baptist background Majorca USA ? ? Christian Christian/NOI Christian ?

Poland/USA Christian Christian Protestant (see note)

Brad L. Johnson USA Bruce Do Chadi Chandara Christopher D. M. Monreal Col. D.S. Rockwell Canada Lebanon Singapore USA Philippines USA

Christian background "..i felt the truth, the majesty behind each word.." Hindu Christian Catholic ? Catholic Anglican/Catholic Christian background Christian background Catholic Catholic Jew Catholic ? "I knew that I had found the truth I had struggled to embrace" The homepage of Emad-ud-Deen Richard Leiman Everlast, aka Eric Schrody 'The Best Way to Live and Die' - A must read for truth seekers "Actually, I love Jesus, because I follow Muhammad" Colonel Donald S. Rockwell. Poet, critic, author "No .. religion including Catholicism impacted me in such a .. way" Chandara and his wife share their touching story "I got tired of the unintelligible doctrines and the .. contradictions"

David Praderelli ? Davis Devis Warrington UK Austria

Donald W. FloodUSA E. Ahmed Tori E. D. Llarenas USA Philippines

Emad-ud-Deen KT, USA Everlast F. Overing USA Holland

Faruq Abdullah Indiana, USACatholic

Faruq. B. Karai Zanzibar G. B. Delomas Philippines

? Catholic Christian Catholic ? Protestant background None Christian background ? Christian Southern Baptist ? ? ? Catholic Anglican Christian Catholic Atheist Coptic Catholic Taoist/Christian Ahmadi/Qadiani ? ? Church of England Catholic/Atheist Christian Christian Oxford-educated statesman and Baronet Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas Embraced Islam whilst serving a prison term "..I would do my duty by converting Muslims to the Christian faith" "I went on a 20-year-long search for the truth". "I heard a cassette for Yusuf Islam how he became muslim" "I have found what the truth is" "I had a book (The Qur'an) which is backed by scientific fact" "..the concept of Trinity was introduced in 325 A.D.." An Ahmadi leader renounces Ahmadiyya. A must read ! "I was taught to believe that Muslims were obviously mad men" "I had no need of any god" Formerly Ibrahim Khalil Philobus, an Egyptian Coptic priest ! Etymologist, geologist and author "I find that the Bible just does'nt make sense" Cambridge-educated Peer, statesman, and author Scientist, author, journalist "I have seen the beauty of people, living as muslims" A Native American Indian brother's journey to the truth Former missionary. Author of many good articles on Islam A former Catholic priest ! Dr. Abdul-Karim Germanus, Professor of Oriental Studies "The Qur'an has been preserved in its original form" "Religion was the last topic I could tolerate"

Dr. Gary Miller USA George Anthony Kuwait Dr. Germanus Greg Noakes Gregor Shepherd H. F. Fellow Dr. Hamid Marcus Harun Hungary USA ? UK Germany USA

Hasan al-Amriki USA Haroon alQahtani Prof. Haroon Leon Hazer Lord Headley Husain Rofe Hydadura Mendes USA UK ? UK UK Sri Lanka

I. W. Zejilersky Poland Ibrahim Karlsson Ibrahim Khalil Ibrahim Voo Ihsan C. Gim Sam Dr. Ismail Balogun Ismail Godwin Sweden Egypt Malaysia Singapore Nigeria CA, USA

J.W. Lovegrove UK Sir Jalaluddin UK

Dr. Jeffrey Lang USA Jihad Mujahid Jim Beaven John Birch Joakim Juan Alavardo Lee Cooper M. Selliah USA USA

Texas, USA Methodist Sweden ? UK Sri Lanka ? Catholic ? Catholic

M. A. Hobohm M. A. R. Webb M. J. Webster

Germany USA UK

? Presbyterian Protestant ? Christian/NOI ? Lutheran Christian/Jewish

Muhammad Aman Hobohm. Diplomat, missionary, social worker American diplomat, author, journalist. 1846-1916 CE Muhammad John Webster. President, The English Muslim Mission

M. S. Takeuchi Japan Malcolm X Malik Martin Mwaipopo Michael Wolfe Michael Yip Mike LoPrete Milan Sulc Miland Limaye Mohammed Iqbal Muhammad Asad Muhammad Yahya Mohammed USA Canada Tanzania USA

From the falsehood of the Nation of Islam, to true Islam "I finally know what it feels like to be humble" Ex-Archbishop ! His wife (former Catholic nun) also converted ! Writer and traveller

New Zealand Christian USA Czech ? ? Austria UK India Christian Athiest Christian Sikh background Jew None Hindu ? Christian Christian ? ? Catholic Jehovah's Witness ? Catholic Baptist ? Pentecostal Christian Later moved to Saudi Arabia "My conversion to Islam has been intellectual and emotional" Heads Answering Christianity. At one time trained to be a minister ! A former Jehovah's Witness minister ! Anthropologist, writer, scholar "everything that has a "muslim taste" in it was .. inappropriate" "a reasoned faith which was very prayerful.." A famous film actor in the Philippines "I am coming to see that Muhammmed is a real prohet " 19 year old college student. "I didn't get the idea of the trinity" "I came .. across some scientific facts which took my breath away" "the Bible has been corrupted by the .. church that was to protect it" We're interested in collecting more stories from ex-Sikhs. Email us ! Statesman, journalist, author. A translator of the Qur'an "I never thought of God or religion, except to satirize them.." A former leader of the group that demolished Babri Mosque Ph.D(Law) Harvard. Social scientist and diplomat "..if Jesus was God how could he die?" "..questions I had carried for years were being answered" "When I [read the Quran], the dam broke" "..it hits me like a "bolt of lightning" READ THE QUR'AN!"

Murad Hoffman Germany Mustaqiim Sahir ? Najm Uddin Nuh Breechen Omar R. O. Pasion Raphael Dr. R.L. Mellema Rendra Rob Wicks Robin Padilla Russ Crawley Salahuddin Boart Samir Samir Shawn Smith T.H. McBarklie Tai Fu UK ? CA, USA Philippines LA, USA Hungary ? USA Philippines USA USA

India (Note) Christian ? Canada Ireland Agnostic Christian Protestant

Taiwan/USA Buddhist

"I wasn't interested .. I thought muslims were barbaric"

Tavis AdibudeenUSA Thomas Clayton USA Thomas Irving Ulf Karlsson Canada Sweden

Christian Christian background Christian Atheist Catholic ? ? Baha'i Faith None Orthodox Christian None Christian Christian Catholic ? Christian Christian

"It is the light at the end of the tunnel"

"At last I was able to accept Muhammad as an apostle of God" "I had no belief in god, and all this religious stuff seemed strange" "..teachers tried to explain the trinity to me .. but it made no sense" A Professor of Anthropology Economist, social worker, preacher A Journey to Islam - 2 emails and a newsgroup article "Well, looks like another Muslim has come out of my classes." Former Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church ! Scholar and writer Author, poet, novelist "As I began reading .. the Qur'an, I became more .. convinced .." "It alleviated my confusion and turned it into clarity" Brother Yusuf is currently serving a life sentence in prison A Federal Prison Chaplain. His website is aimed at nonMuslims Famous ex-musician, formerly Cat Stevens. A must read !

Umar Crescenzi USA Dr. Umar Ehrenfels Umar Mita Unknown Unknown Viacheslav Polosin Vincent Montagne Austria Japan ? CA, USA Russia France

W. B. B. Pickard UK Yahiye Gadahn USA Yusuf Ali Bernier Yusuf Ansari Yusuf Estes Yusuf Islam Canada Scotland USA UK

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