Posted on 05/03/2012 12:26:10 PM PDT by reaganaut
Mustapha El Akkari recently became the first non-Mormon student body president at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Interestingly, El Akkari is a Muslim who credits the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-affiliated school with making him a better Islamic adherent.
In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune the business management student, who is at the school on a basketball scholarship, highlighted the ways in which LDS has assisted his faith.
El Akkari, who was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, will be a senior next fall. During the interview, he shared his experience living with a Christian family in America. Additionally, he discussed the culture shock he encountered upon attending BYU, specifically when it comes to the honor code and other strict regulations:
“It was a big shock for me. I read articles about it, but I thought it would be like a normal college. It was none of that. It was really straight with an honor code and all — no tea or coffee meant no tea or coffee. I had lived through a half-Jewish, half-Christian family but not Mormons. But I adjusted right away. I fit in. I’m a little unique — the only Arabic speaker or Lebanese on campus — but I love Hawaiians. I never knew any Polynesians before. I called my parents and told them there were islands in the Pacific where people live. They never knew it. I decided I was going to learn from the experience and bring my culture to them.”
When asked to share how his Islamic faith has been impacted by attending a Mormon university, El Akkari provided some intriguing assessments. In sum, BYU has positively impacted and reinforced his faith.
“Before I came to this school, I was not a practicing Muslim. I had never been to a Muslim school,” he explained. “When I came here, I saw all these religious people who were successful and I thought, ‘I want to be like them. I want to base my life on principles, you can’t fail this way.’”
The student reiterated his belief that Islam is “right” and said that the experience of attending the school caused him to read Muslim books and educate himself.
Mustapha El Akkari Credits Brigham Young University Hawaii for Strengthening His Islamic Faith
“Now I read the Quran, do my five daily prayers and fast during the month of Ramadan. The Mormons kind of woke me up,” El Akkari explained. “I haven’t felt any discrimination from them, but their attempts to convert me always will be there. They believe their religion is right. I don’t really blame them.”
If he goes back to Lebanon after graduation, he said that he will play basketball, as it is easy and is something that he loves. During the interview, he also made mention of his brother, Mohammad El-Akkari, who The Blaze recently covered for scoring a record-breaking 113 points in a single basketball game.
Amongst all the signposts to hell that this country has passed in the last decade,
it seems to me that none is more indicative of our societal rot than faggot-appeasement in the military.
What in the heck?????
And we're supposed to support a mormon for POTUS? No way.
1 - A LDS perspective on Muhammed (LDS.org)
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2000/08/a-latter-day-saint-perspective-on-muhammad?lang=eng
2 - U.S. Muslims share friendship, similar values with Mormons (LA Times, published in 2008)
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/02/local/me-morlims2
3 - Mormonism and Islam: Commonality and Cooperation Between Abrahamic Faiths (March 10 & 11, 2011 - Utah Valley University)
http://www.uvu.edu/religiousstudies/mormonismandislam/
4 - Ask a Mormon: What do Mormons think of Muslims (March 2010 - MormonWoman.org)
http://mormonwoman.org/2010/03/15/ask-a-mormon-woman-what-do-mormons-think-about-islam/
5 - Mormons and Muslims break fast together (Ramadan 2010 - Deseret News)
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705386347/Mormons-Muslims-break-the-fast-in-Southern-California.html
6 - Islamic Translation Service (Brigham Young University)
http://meti.byu.edu/islamic.php
7 - Muslims attending BYU focus on similarities between Islam, LDS tenets (Deseret News - Dec 2009)
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705353014/Muslims-attending-BYU-focus-on-similarities-between-Islam-LDS-tenets.html
Links courtesy NorthernCrunchyCon.
...and Utes.
What's a Ute?
Ouch. Good one!
It makes sense actually, they are so close and have the same ‘father’ - Satan.
To the headline: of course he does, both are anti-Christian
If muslims are recycling dead wives...
...is this because they are “going green”?
:^P
ROFLMAO!!
Actually; my first wife....
Surely by now...
Wait until they find out things about MORMONism!
Where are all the Mormon defenders who claim that there is no connection between Islam and Mormonism?
AHMED: Abdullah, my friend. I am very sorry to hear of your wife’s passing.
ABDULLAH: Thank you, Ahmed my friend. She was a good wife till the end. I suppose some mormon is baptizing her into his celestial harem even as we speak.
AHMED: I heard you chose to have sex with her for the full 5 hours allowed after she died?
ABDULLAH: Yes, Ahmed, I tell you in confidence, that I took the magic pills and had the wildest rigor mortis monkey love sex that woman will ever know!
AHMED: I understand such a thing is permitted, Allah be praised... but I myself could never contemplate such a thing. My friend, why would you fornicate with the dead?
ABDULLAH: Because even if her ghost may be a sex slave on planet Romney, I made sure she’ll never forget planet Abdullah.
:^}
Their demons had hissy fits and got them self zotted.
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