I'm a feminist, and I converted to Islam

CNN ^ | 10/14/2014 | Theresa Corbin

[Bettyprob]

I am a Muslim, but I wasn't always. I converted to Islam in November 2001, two months after 9/11.

I was 21 and living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was a bad time to be a Muslim. But after four years of studying, poking and prodding at world religions and their adherents, I decided to take the plunge.

I am the product of a Creole Catholic and an Irish atheist. I grew up Catholic, then was agnostic, now I'm Muslim.

My journey to Islam began when I was about 15 years old in Mass and had questions about my faith. The answers from teachers and clergymen -- don't worry your pretty little head about it -- didn't satisfy me.

So I did what any red-blooded American would do: the opposite. I worried about it. For many years. I questioned the nature of religion, man and the universe.

After questioning everything I was taught to be true and digging through rhetoric, history and dogma, I found out about this strange thing called Islam. I learned that Islam is neither a culture nor a cult, nor could it be represented by one part of the world. I came to realize Islam is a world religion that teaches tolerance, justice and honor and promotes patience, modesty and balance.

[x]

"Look at the world's celebrities who converted to Islam" is an ad or tagline or feature that shows up on every page that features a celebrity who became a Muslim. Doing a search for the exact quote "celebrities who converted to Islam" brings up everyone of those pages.

A similar search for "celebrities who converted to Christianity" doesn't bring up all that spam or promotionalism or whatever you want to call it. You're free to create a video or tag to attach to every YouTube video featuring a celebrity who became a Christian if you want, and it would change the results of searches.

The exact quote search may be amusing to you or indicative of just how much somebody is promoting the idea of celebs becoming Muslims, but it doesn't really make for a fair comparison. Search without the quotes and you find videos of celebrities (mostly in India and other non-Western countries) who converted to Christianity.

[Daveinyork]

I converted to Communism when I was 19. (Remember that other anti-freedom ideology?) It lasted until I grew up.

[GOPsterinMA]

It is suicide.

Asians are imported to replace whites.

Hispanics are imported to replace blacks.

Whatever breeding is being done by whites, I’ll be kind and say a plurality of it is white trash gibmedats.

Demographics is destiny; the real Anericans are dying off. Pure & simple.

[GOPsterinMA]

I can’t disagree with you.

[zencycler]

Well, regardless what you think about the use of an exact phrase search for doing any comparisons, I did specify that I was using that method in my original post, and my reported results were accurate (not “BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS” and you wrote in your reply, where you provided the result count that was done without using the exact phrases).

Also, go take a more detailed look at the results from using - celebrities who converted to Christianity - without using quotes to make it an exact phrase. You will see that many of the videos included in those results are actually about celebrities who converted FROM Christianity TO Islam, and again, all those results get included because they have all your search terms, but not in the order that was intended for getting an more accurate measure on what you were trying to get at.

[zencycler]

The exact quote search may be amusing to you or indicative of just how much somebody is promoting the idea of celebs becoming Muslims, but it doesn't really make for a fair comparison.

Actually it makes exactly the comparison I was looking for, which related to how much the US media was reporting on stories like this when a celebrity converts to Islam, whereas if one of them converts to Christianity, than that doesn't somehow does not seem to be as newsworthy - that was sort of the whole point of my original post.

[x]

I'll grant that you got the results that you got and that searching without quotes does bring up some videos of celebrities who converted from Christianity to other religions, but the fact that some guy put the tagline "Look at the world's celebrities, who converted to Islam" all over the Internet doesn't exactly mean that the US media is reporting a lot of stories about celebs who have converted to Islam.

Most of these videos were put online by amateurs. I assume many or most of them were created by amateurs. Some of the information they contain is indeed bogus (Liam Neeson becoming a Muslim, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Angela Merkel converting to Islam, for example). While it's indeed not treated as a big story when a celebrity returns to Christianity or embraces it for the first time, I don't really see big media in the US making much of a sensation over Hollywood converts to Islam. That was one of the points I was trying to make.

[hal ogen]

Has this moral degenerate had her clitoris lopped-off as yet? What a complete loser. I hope she finds stoning to death to her liking. I believe she will soon kill her self.

[Lazamataz]

Way I see it, she should do the world a favor and go full-on burkha.