Fred I have a friend who happens to be named Debbie. She too met her Arab husband in college and refused to convert. He left after 911 leaving her with her 3 some to raise. So you do not have to convert in the usa and you do have to chnge your nme if you convert.
Because i have this first hand knowledge I was curious. And don’t want to mislead anyone who might be reading the threads that’s why I posted the link
BTW did you know that Tony Fezko who is now doing time, helped O’s buy their Chicago house helped convert. Cassius Clay under the direction of FerretCON it was his first job in the US
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I’m sorry, I cannot follow your trains of thought, there seems to be no focus.
Let’s stick with the changes of name.
It’s a custom that stems from the middle east to retain the name of the father, no matter how many times a woman marries, even after a number of divorces, she returns to the name of her father, which I think is the result of TRIBALISM - the name of the father denotes their ORIGIN.
It’s not just in islam, the Maronites from Lebanon do the same.
And yes, you can keep your ‘infidel’ name when you convert to islam, if the imam permits it. But if that name is in any way seen to be CHRISTIAN you won’t be able to keep it.
And if you haven’t converted by the time your ardent muslim boyfriend drags you off in front of the imam to marry you according to their custom, you are automatically made a muslim and given a muslim name as part of your stupidity to regret later, when/if he treats you like an animal.
We don’t need to read islamic websites to understand that, do we? If we only know what it says on sites like ASK THE IMAM, we would be in deep trouble...
Debbie, being an abbreviation of DEBORAH comes straight out of the Old Testament and would be like a pointed stick into the eye of a muslim...now think of all the other CHRISTIAN names that you wouldn’t be allowed to keep. No, easier would be to find the few which you would. Mine would be ok, it’s ROMAN in origin. Pre-Christian Roman, that is.