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Quotes on ISLAM from Famous People . . .

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Quotes on ISLAM from Famous People

1. Winston Churchill On Islam

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

2. John Quincy Adams on Islam

"The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force."

3. John Wesley on Islam

"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind."

4. Hilaire Belloc on Islam

"Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans - still nominally Christian - and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam."

5. Bishop Fulton J Sheen on Islam

"Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power."

6. Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria on Islam

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

7. Gregory Palamus of Thessalonica on Islam

"For these impious people, hated by God and infamous, boast of having got the better of the Romans by their love of God...they live by the bow, the sword and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil and not only do they commit these crimes, but even - what an aberration - they believe that God approves of them. This is what I think of them, now that I know precisely about their way of life."

8. William Eaton on Islam

"Considered as a nation, they are deplorably wretched, because they have no property in the soil to inspire an ambition to cultivate it. They are abject slaves to the despotism of their government, and they are humiliated by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the despotism of priestcraft. They live in more solemn fear of the frowns of a bigot who has been dead and rotten above a thousand years, than of the living despot whose frown would cost them their lives. The ignorance, superstitious tradition and civil and religious tyranny, which depress the human mind here, exclude improvement of every kind."

9. John Quincy Adams on Islam

"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind."

"THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adams's capital letters). Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and goodwill towards men."

10. Lord Tebbit on Islam

"The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years."

11. Vernon Richards on Islam

"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this:'Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah'(i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."

12. Andre Servier on Islam

"Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was - and it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society."

13. Theodore Roosevelt on Islam

"The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."

"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any 'social values' whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such 'social values' today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."

14. David Selbourne on Islam

"Of course, there are distinguished precedents even for the bleakest and coarsest of these judgements. To Montesquieu in 1748, Islam's 'destructive spirit' spoke 'only by the sword'; to Schopenhauer in 1819, the Koran was a 'wretched book' in which he had 'not been able to discover one single idea of value'; to De Tocqueville in 1843, Islam was 'deadly','to be feared’ and a 'form of decadence'".

Abdullah wrote:

#447 <quoted text> NO it is not like that. Muslims can’t attack any one who did not attack them. you talk about resistence to conversion. Forcefull conversion is not acceptable in islam. it is included in SHARIA LAW.

APPETIZING VAGINAS FOR HOLY FIGHTERS!---A REALLY MIND-BOGGLING OFFER!!

Mr Abdullah, why are you so thick in your head? I already said that this is the Islam that many non-Muslims like me believe; but most of your own people do not know or refuse to believe. If they believe, they are only pretending to do so!

Even you yourself are quite ignorant of your Quran's good teachings. In Fusilat 41:34, Muslims are not to take bloody revenge if attacked, but to return/repel evil with something which is better. Then non-Muslims who are their enemies will become their best friends.

And here you are encouraging bloody revenge attacks by your Muslim people if they are attacked, when Muslim holy fighters are the ones who are often doing the attacking and even the mass-slaughtering almost daily of their own Muslim people. And you are keeping very quiet.

Even if Muslims can take revenge, often times they were the ones who started the fightings and the killings of the non-Muslims, in imitation of your Prophet Mohammed who often started the fights with his countless caravan raids of the Arab merchants during his days. How would you like it if robbers were to attack you and kill you after taking your wealth and property?

So why are you not preaching this to your own people who need so much of the good and peaceful teachings of the Quran? What unfortunately is driving them crazy is the bad teachings of the Quran---to hate, kill and take bloody revenge, which you have correctly stated in your post #447 is allowed [by your Quran].

So Muslims must make up their minds what they want to believe---the good or the bad in their Quran. And then, say, if the Pakistani Muslims choose good, they can hope to turn around your bloody Islamic paradise of Pakistan from being the most dangerous place for Muslims to live to being truly the best.

Of course you will have an uphill task, as Muslims are so hooked up on the idea that if they do evil for Allah in their holy wars, they will be rewarded with plentiful of houris (i.e. voluptuous paradise virgins) for endless sex orgies there. So which Muslim men can resist such tempting offers?

Here is what WLsciencejunkie posted: TIRMZI, volume two (p 35-40) declares:
A houri is a most beautiful young woman with a transparent body. The marrow of her bones is visible like the interior lines of pearls and rubies. She looks like red wine in a white glass. She is of white color, and free from the routine physical disabilities of an ordinary woman such as menstruation, menopause, urinal and offal discharge, child bearing and the related pollution.

A houri is a girl of tender age, having large breasts which are round (pointed), and not inclined to dangle. Houris dwell in palaces of splendid surroundings. The Prophet was asked:'Do we have sex in Paradise?' He answered:'Yes, by him who holds my soul in his hand, and it will be done dahman, dahman (that is intercourse done with such shove and disturbance [79]). And when it is finished she will return pure and virgin again."

Imam Suyuti is reported to have said, "each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin.
Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas ...”

muslims are ignorant to their surroundings and even their own religion. they are kept uneducated so they are easily manipulated by their cultish leaders who seek to exploit all they can from their own people. the sad thing is their own people are too blind to see it.
how many muslims live in poverty while their own leaders live like proverbial gods?
we need to exterminate the ignorance of islam. the sad thing is that means we need to exterminate many generations of muslims since theu brainwash their children and indoctrinate them into the cult at birth. the only was to stop islam is to educate the new children

15. Steven Runciman on Islam

"Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword."

16. Jon Stewart on Islam

"The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's 'offensive to the religion of Islam.' Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot."

17. Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam

"I studied the Koran a great deal...I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world, and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion infinitely more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself."

18. William S. Burroughs on Islam

"The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line."

19. Ernest Renan on Islam

"Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him."

20. Benedict XVI on Islam

"Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything," he said. "There is a very marked subordination of woman to man; there is a very tightly knit criminal law, indeed, a law regulating all areas of life, that is opposed to our modern ideas about society. One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a denomination that can be included in the free realm of a pluralistic society."

HummerH3 wrote:
7. Gregory Palamus of Thessalonica on Islam
"For these impious people, hated by God and infamous, boast of having got the better of the Romans by their love of God...they live by the bow, the sword and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil and not only do they commit these crimes, but even - what an aberration - they believe that God approves of them. This is what I think of them, now that I know precisely about their way of life."
8. William Eaton on Islam
"Considered as a nation, they are deplorably wretched, because they have no property in the soil to inspire an ambition to cultivate it. They are abject slaves to the despotism of their government, and they are humiliated by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the despotism of priestcraft. They live in more solemn fear of the frowns of a bigot who has been dead and rotten above a thousand years, than of the living despot whose frown would cost them their lives. The ignorance, superstitious tradition and civil and religious tyranny, which depress the human mind here, exclude improvement of every kind."
9. John Quincy Adams on Islam
"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind."
"THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adams's capital letters). Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and goodwill towards men."

21. Richard Dawkins on Islam
"Islam deserves criticism on account of the logical consequences of its dogma, namely, that the murder of fellow human beings is to be rewarded with sensual pleasure in a hedonistic 'Paradise'- a concept born in the fantasies of an Arab rebel some fourteen centuries ago. The religion of Mohammed is a dangerous system when the teachings and example of the 'prophet' are believed and followed."

22. Jacques Ellul on Islam

"...But care is taken not to say how Islam expanded, how countries 'passed into [Muslim] hands.'...Regarding this expansion, little is said about jihad. And yet it all happened through war!...the jihad is an institution...that is to say it is a part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world...The conquered populations change status (tney become dhimmis), and the shari'a tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change 'owners.'"

23. Sam Harris on Islam

"Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death."

"As a matter of doctrine, the Muslim conception of tolerance is one in which non-Muslims have been politically and economically subdued, converted, or put to sword."

"The penalty for apostasy is death. We would do well to linger over this fact for a moment, because it is the black pearl of intolerance that no liberal exegesis will ever fully digest."

"There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society's discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one of the best we've got."
"The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence."

Proud American wrote:
muslims are ignorant to their surroundings and even their own religion. they are kept uneducated so they are easily manipulated by their cultish leaders who seek to exploit all they can from their own people. the sad thing is their own people are too blind to see it.
how many muslims live in poverty while their own leaders live like proverbial gods?
we need to exterminate the ignorance of islam. the sad thing is that means we need to exterminate many generations of muslims since theu brainwash their children and indoctrinate them into the cult at birth. the only was to stop islam is to educate the new children

it seems like the forum of islam becomes the forum of HummerH3

try to do sth good in your life and stop spreading misconception about islam because no one can believe you

for people who want to discover islam, forum is not the best way of course

read this from translation of the meaning of the holy Quran

Surah 2. Al-Baqara
1. Alif. Lam. Mim.
2. This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil).
3. Who believe in the unseen, and establish worship, and spend of that We have bestowed upon them;
4. And who believe in that which is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) and that which was revealed before thee, and are
certain of the Hereafter.
5. These depend on guidance from their Lord. These are the successful.

(and from the sam surah)
284. Unto Allah (belongeth) whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and whether ye make known
what is in your minds or hide it, Allah will bring you to account for it. He will forgive whom He will and He will punish
whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things.
285. The messenger believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do) the believers. Each
one believeth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers We make no distinction between any of
His messengers and they say: We hear, and we obey.(Grant us) Thy forgiveness, our Lord. Unto Thee is the journeying.
286. Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which
it hath deserved. Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget, or miss the mark! Our Lord! Lay not on us such a burden as
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Thou didst lay on those before us! Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not the strength to bear! Pardon us,
absolve us and have mercy on us, Thou, our Protector, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk.

List of Famous people who converted to Islam . . .

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Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) – former NBA player
Abdullah Beg of Kartli – Georgian convert to Islam who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
Abel Xavier – former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.
Abu Tammam – 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.
Abu Usamah – American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK.Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.
Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) – al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Homeschooled Christian.
Adam Neuser – a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.
Addas – Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time. One of the earliest Christian converts to Islam.
Adi ibn Hatim – Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time.
Ahmad Faris Shidyaq – a Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.
Ahmad Rashād – Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.
Ahmed Santos – Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative converted from Catholicism
Ahmad Thomson – British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.
Akhenaton – French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
Allahverdi Khan – general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.
Alexander Litvinenko – former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed
Alexander Russell Webb – Former Presbyterian. American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.
Aminah Assilmi – Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
André Carson – former Baptist, second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.
Anselm Turmeda – a Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam
Art Blakey – American Jazz musician
Aukai Collins – fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book
Anthony Mundine – former Australian rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons and now a boxer
Anthony Small – professional boxer
Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet – a distinguished British convert to Islam.
Atik Sinan – a Greek architect for the Ottomans.

Badr al-Din Lu’lu’, an Armenian convert to Islam and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
Benjamin Chavis – controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
Bernard Hopkins – American boxer
Betty Shabazz – wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.
Bilal Philips – Islamic scholar and author
Bruno Metsu – French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Bryant Neal Vinas – participated in and supported al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR

Colleen LaRose – American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
Chris Eubank – British boxer
Christian Gonzalez – Indonesian-Uruguay footballer. He changed his name become Mustafa Habibi Gonzalez
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.
Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.

Daniel Maldonado – American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.
Danilo Fernando – Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando
Danny Thompson – English double bass player converted from Catholicism.
Danny Williams – British boxer
David Belfield – American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.
David Benjamin Keldani, a former Catholic priest.
Dave Chappelle – comedian and television star
Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) – Canadian singer/poet.

Elsa Kazi – German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
Erekle I of Kakheti – Georgian convert to Islam who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) – French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.
Everlast – Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted from Catholicism.

Farqad as-Sabakhi – an Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.
Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Tarek.
Firouz – an Armenian Christian convert to Islam who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.

Gabriele Torsello – Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.
George XI of Kartli – Saffavid commander.
Germaine Lindsay – one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings in which 52 people were murdered.

Hamza Yusuf – American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.
Hedley Churchward – English painter
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha – born to a Christian Croatian family, he was an Ottoman general and statesman from Hercegovina.

Ian Dallas – Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.
Ibn Jazla – an 11th century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.
Ibrahim Bey – an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.
Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) – From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.
Ilie II Rareş – prince of Moldavia.
Ingrid Mattson – Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) converted From Catholicism.
Isabelle Eberhardt – from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer
Ismael Urbain – French journalist and interpreter.
Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) – famous Swedish painter.
Iyasu V – Ethiopian emperor.

C. Jack Ellis – Mayor of Macon, Georgia
Jacques-Francois Menou – French general under Napoleon I of France.
James Yee – previously Lutheran and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.
Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) – former member of The Jackson 5.
Jerôme Courtailler – one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists
Joe Tex – soul singer and recording artist.
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.
St. John Philby – Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.
John Tzelepes Komnenos – a Greek Byzantine leader.
John Walker Lindh – the “American Taliban” converted From Catholicism
John Whitehead – an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
John Nelson – first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.
Joseph Thomas – Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.
Józef Bem – Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary.
Judar Pasha – conqueror of the Songhai Empire.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) – retired basketball player & the NBA’s all-time leading scorer
Keith Ellison – American, Representative from Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted From Catholicism
Kevin Barrett – university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
Khaled Edward Blair – British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
Khalid Yasin – Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.
Knud Holmboe – Danish journalist and explorer converted From Catholicism.
Koca Yusuf Pasha – a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.
Köse Mihal – a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.
Kumba Ialá – a Guinea-Bissau politician who converted in 2008.

Dolores “LaLa” Brooks – American musician.
Leo of Tripoli – a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
Loon – American hip hop and rap artist
Lee Hughes – professional association football player, currently playing for Notts County F.C.
Lauren Booth – A journalist Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law in 2010.

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) – retired basketball player
Marcio Souza Da Silva – Brazilian Footballer
Markus Horison – Indonesian Goalkeeper. He changed his name become Muhammad Markus Haris Maulana
Marmaduke Pickthall – famous translator of the Quran.
Mario Scialoja – Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.
Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) – former boxer, converted From Catholicism.
Michael Muhammad Knight – American novelist, writer, and journalist.
Mike Tyson – Is an American boxer to Sunni
Mihnea Turcitul – was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Mirza Malkam Khan – an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Mleh, Prince of Armenia – an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism, he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
Mohammad Yousuf – Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From Catholicism.
Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)
Mohammed Zakariya – an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.
Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha – Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.
Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) – professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota’s Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.
Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist to The Nation of Islam to sufism Islam. famous boxer.
Muhammed al-Ahari born January 6, 1965 as Ray Allen Rudder is an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism.
Murad Wilfred Hofmann – NATO official, converted From Catholicism

Nicolas Anelka – French football player
Nuh Ha Mim Keller – from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam, Islamic scholar.

Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
Omar Bongo – Gabonese, President of Gabon.
Omar Hammami – American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.
Omar Pasha – Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.
Omar Sharif – Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.

Pargalı İbrahim Pasha – born to a Christian Greek family, he was the first Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent.
Peter Murphy – vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus, converted from Catholicism.
Pierre Vogel – German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
Poncke Princen – Dutch soldier, later human rights activist, converted From Catholicism.
Preacher Moss – Former Baptist, American comedian and comedy writer.

Raghib Pasha – was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt^[131] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.^[132]
Radu cel Frumos – was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From Catholicism.^[133]
René Guénon – French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From Catholicism.^[134]^[135]
Richard Colvin Reid – shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)^[136]
Richard Thompson – British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.^[137]
Robert of St. Albans – an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.^[138]
Robert D. Crane is the former adviser to the late President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.^[139]
Robin Padilla – Filipino actor.^[140]
Roger Garaudy – French philosopher, converted From protestant.^[141]
Ronald Bell or Khalis Bayyan (born 1 November 1951, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer, composer and saxophonist
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley – British soldier and peer.^[142]
Rudolf Carl von Slatin – Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.^[143]
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood – British author, converted from Protestantism.^[144]
Ryan G. Anderson – former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda^[145]^[146]
Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos^[147]

Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity^[148] who was previously Zoroastrian.
Sana al-Sayegh, dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. Fatah has accused its political rival Hamas of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies.^[149]
Sarah Joseph – commentator on women’s issues and founder of emel magazine, converted From Catholicism.^[150]
Brad Terrence Jordan (“Scarface”) – American rapper^[151]
Shah Shahidullah Faridi – Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.^[152]
Sheila Musaji – founder of The American Muslim magazine.^[153]
Silma Ihram – formerly a born again Baptist who is an Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the ‘Noor Al Houda Islamic College’, campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.^[154]
Siraj Wahaj – Former Baptist.^[155] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn’s drug problems.^[156]
Snoop Dogg – Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.^[157]
Suhaib Webb – American Islamic activist and speaker.^[158]
Suleiman Pasha – French-born Egyptian commander.^[159]

T. B. Irving – An American scholar, author and translator
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) – originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings^[160]
Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) – African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.^[161]^[162]^[163]
Tekuder – Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.^[164]
Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer^[165]
Timothy Winter – prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.^[166]
Torquato Cardilli – Italian ambassador, converted From Catholicism.^[167]

Vincenzo Luvineri – American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted From Catholicism.^[168]

Wadih el-Hage born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon, a former al-Qaeda member.^{[citation needed]}
William Abdullah Quilliam – 19th century British poet, ambassador and journalist.^[169]
Willie Brigitte – French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.^[170]
Wojciech Bobowski – raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.^[171]

Yahiya Emerick – American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.^[172]
Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) – of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006^[173]
Yusuf Estes – Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.^[174]
Yvonne Ridley – British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.^[175]^[176]

Zaid Shakir – American Muslim convert former Baptist to Sunni Islam, speaker, intellectual, author, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in the United States.^[177]^[178]
Zağanos Pasha – one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councillor, protector, for the sultan.^[179]

From Judaism

Abdullah ibn Salam – 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.^[180]
Hibat Allah Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi – influential 12th century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.^[181]
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw’al – 12th century mathematician and astronomer.^[182]^[183]
Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th century Andalusian poet.^[184]
Jacob Querido – 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.^[185]
Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.^[186]
Lev Nussimbaum – 20th century writer, journalist and orientalist.^[187]
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.^[188]
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th century Persian physician^[189]
Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.^[190]
Tali Fahima – Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.^[191]
Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.^[192]
Youssef Darwish – a labour lawyer and activist^[193] who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

From Dharmic religions

From Buddhism

The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became “the greatest family” in the early Abbasid caliphate.^[194]
Daniel Moore – poet^[195]
Donei Kalaminjaa – king of the Maldives.^[196]
Korguz – was an Uyghur governor of Khorasan^[197] during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ogedei Khan.^[198]
Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.^[199]
Muhammad Khodabandeh – eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.^[200]
Mubarak Shah – head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266).^[201]
Tarmashirin – Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.^[202]
Hussein Ye – An Islamic scholar of Chinese descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV.^[203]

From Hinduism

Abdul Wahid Pedersen – Danish cleric.^[204]
A.R. Rahman (stands for Allah Rakha Rahman) – Modern South Indian singer ,songwriter & Oscar winner officially converted to Islam from Hinduism.^[205]
Dhiren Barot – Born in India to a Hindu family, Barot was later sentenced to 40 years in prison in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to murder. Barot admitted to plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, the International Monetary Fund headquarters, and the World Bank, amongst other targets.
Divya Bharti – Indian actress who converted on marriage to producer Sajid Nadiadwala
Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah – son of Raja Ganesha; he converted to Islam, then to Hinduism and finally reverted back to Islam, and later introduced Islam to many Hindus.^[206]
Kabir Suman- Modern Bengali singer & songwriter officially converted to Islam from Hinduism in 2000.^[207]
Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) – Anglo-Malayalam writer^[208]
Khusro Khan – a medieval Indian military leader who was a Hindu convert to Islam.
Malik Kafur – Indian military general.^[209]
Malik Maqbul – Prime Minister or Wazir of the Delhi Sultanate,^[210] during the reign of Feroz Shah Tughlaq.
Murshid Quli Khan – the Mughal governor of Bengal.^[211]
Muhammed Yusuf Khan – Born Maruthanayagam Pillai, he converted to Islam^[212] and later served as Commandant for the British East India Company troops.
Rama Varma Kulashekhara – reportedly the first Indian king to accept Islam^[213]^[214]
Sahaj Ram Sapru – the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who was an official in Kashmir during the administration of the Afghan Governor Azim Khan.^[215]
Sharmila Tagore – Converted after marriage to M A Patudi
Steven Vikash Chand – Arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests^[216]
Tansen – Notable musician and poet.^[217]^[218]

From Sikhism

Ubaidullah Sindhi – religious leader and political activist.^[219]

Other

From agnosticism or atheism

Charles le Gai Eaton – British writer.
Martin Lings – a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.^[220]
Mos Def – American rapper and actor.^[221]
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) – British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)^[222]
Zhang Chengzhi – contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.^[223]

From Paganism

Abba Jifar I – king of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma.^[224]
Baraq – a ruler of the Chagatai Khanate who took the name Ghiyas-ud-din after converting.^[225]
Berke – grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde who was the first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.^[226]
David Myatt – from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist^[227]
Nawrūz (Mongol emir) – a convert to Islam;^[228] he played an important role in the politics of the Mongol Ilkhanate.
Negudar – Mongol general and noyan^[229]
Nogai Khan – Mongol general and great-grandson of Genghis Khan.^[230]
Samori Ture – founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa.^[231]^[232]
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan – 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.^[233]
Tuda Mengu – Mongol leader of the Golden Horde^[234]
Tughlugh Timur – the Khan of Moghulistan.^[235]

From Sabianism

Hilal al-Sabi – a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic.^[236]
Sinan ibn Thabit – a physician and son of Thābit ibn Qurra.^[237]

From Zoroastrianism

Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa – author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian.^[238]
Abu’l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami – a Persian poet from Daylam.^[239]^[240]
Abu-Lu’lu’ah Al-Nahawndi – a Persian who assassinated Umar al-Khattab.^[241]
Abu-Mansur Daqiqi – a Persian poet.^[242]
Fadl ibn Sahl – Persian vizier of the Abassid era.^[243]
Naubakht – Pahlavi translator of the Abassid court.^[244]
Rattanbai Petit – second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
Saman Khuda – founder of the Samanid dynasty, one of the first native Persian dynasties in the Middle East and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanids.^[245]

Undetermined former religion

Abd al Malik – birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.^[246]
Abd al Haqq Kielan – Swedish cleric.^[247]
Abdallah Schleifer – prominent Middle East expert, former NBC Cairo Bureau chief, and a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo who converted to Sufi Islam.^[248]^[249]
Abdul Alim Musa – Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.^[250]
Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) – accused of participating in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.^[251]^[252]
Abdullah Ibrahim – South African Jazz musician.^[253]
Ahmad Jamal – Jazz pianist.^[254]
Ahmed el Inglizi – was an English architect and engineer who worked for the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed ben Abdallah in the 18th century and converted to Islam.^[255]
Ajdin Muzaka – was the commander in the Battle of Torvioll.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – member of A Tribe Called Quest.^[256]
Alys Faiz – human rights and peace activist;^[257] converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.^[258]
Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.^[259]
Anthony Mundine – Australian Boxer, Former 2 time Super Middleweight Champion.^[260]
Antoni Aleksander Iliński – a Polish-Ottoman military officer and general.
Apisai Tora – Fijian politician.^[261]

Batool Al-Toma – Irishwoman who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism.
B.G. Knocc Out – American west coast rapper.^[262]
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan – born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.^[263]
Bob Denard – French mercenary.^[264]
Brandon Mayfield – American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.^[265]
Busta Rhymes – American rapper, songwriter and actor

Charles Brooks, Jr. – converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.^[266]
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – aka “Carlos the Jackal”, convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.^[267]
Celestino Caballero – Boxer, Current Super Bantamweight Champion.^[268]
Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.^[269]
Christian Ganczarski- Head of “al Qaeda in Europe”.^[270]
Christopher de Bellaigue – journalist and author
Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) – American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.^[271]^[272]
Colleen LaRose – alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.^[273]
Craig Hodges – former NBA player.^[274]

David Hicks – convicted Australian terrorist.^[275]
Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans 22 December at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.^[276]
Divine Styler – American hip-hop musician.^[277]
Dwight Muhammad Qawi – Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.^[278]

Edoardo Agnelli – eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.
Everlast – Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.^[279]

Frithjof Schuon – metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.^[280]

Gary Legenhausen – American philosopher and writer.^[281]
Ghostface Killah – member of the Wu-Tang Clan.^[282]
Gigi Gryce – American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.^[283]
Gustave-Henri Jossot – French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.^[284]

Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) – American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.^[285]
H. Rap Brown – civil rights activisit.^[286]

Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) – Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).^[287]
Ibrahim Savant – one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.^[288]
Idris Muhammad – American jazz musician.^[289]
Iliaş Colceag – Moldavian military commander in the Ottoman and Russian Empire.
Isabelle Eberhardt – explorer and writer.^[290]

Jack Roche – convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.^[291]
Jadel Gregório – a Brazilian athlete.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick – was the British Resident in Hyderabad.^[292]
Jan Janszoon – Dutch pirate.^[293]
Jason Walters – of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.^[294]
Jeff Fort – former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.^[295]^[296]
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.^[297]
Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan
Jesse of Kakheti – a ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1614 to 1615.
John Allen Muhammad – convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.^[298]^[299]
John Ward – (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.^[300]
Johann von Leers – advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.^[301]^[302]^[303]
José Padilla – the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.^[304]
Juan Carlos Gomez – Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.^[305]

Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.^[306]
Khaled Edward Blair – British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.^[307]
Khalid Sheldrake – an English pickle manufacturer who established a branch of the Western Islamic Association in South Shields in 1930.

Larry Johnson – retired American professional basketball player.^[308]
Lauren Booth – a British^[309] broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.^[310]^[311]
Li Nu – a Chinese scholar in the Ming dynasty who visited Persia, converted to Islam, married a Persian or an Arab girl and brought her back to Quanzhou in Fujian.^[312]^[313]^[314]
Lim Yew Hock – Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.^[315]

MC Ren – American rapper and hip-hop producer.^[316]
Malcolm X – American to Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam, African-American civil rights leader.^[317]
Malik ul Salih – established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.^[318]
Maryam Jameelah – formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.^[319]
Maurice Béjart – French choreographer.^[320]
Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) – former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.^[321]^[322]
Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador.^[323]
Michael Wolfe – American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.^[324]^[325]
Michael X – civil rights activist in the United Kingdom^[326]

Nahshid Sulaiman – alternative hip hop artist.^[327]
Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi (born Lex Hixon) – syncretist, Sufi convert, and co-founder of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order in the United States.^[328]

Omar Ong Yoke Lin – (1917–2010) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.^[329]
Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels – Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.^[330]

Philippe Fragione – French rapper and producer of French hip hop.^[331]
Philippe Grenier – (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.^[332]

Q-Tip – North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.^[333]

Rakan Ben Williams – suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist.^[334]
Robert “Kool” Bell – musician.^[335]
Robert D. Crane – former Presidential advisor and ambassador.^[336]
Rodrigo de Triana – sailor and the first European since the Vikings known to have seen America who converted to Islam from Judaism^[337] or Christianity.^[338]
Ronald Bell – musician.^[339]
Rory McLeod – British snooker player.

Sahib Shihab – jazz saxophonist and flautist.^[340]
Saida Miller Khalifa – British author who was originally called Sonya Miller.^[341]^[342]
Shaheed Akbar – notable rapper who converted to Islam.^[343]
Stephen Schwartz – American journalist, columnist, and author.^[344]
Susanne Osthoff – German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.^[345]

Thomas J. Abercrombie -Famous photographer and writer for National Geographic Magazine http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040602187.html
Tiara Jacquelina – Malaysian actress.^[346]
Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar.^[347]
Tony Hussein Hinde – an Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam.^[348]

Umar Islam – one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.^[288]
Uri Davis – an academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East.^[349]

Vladimir Khodov – leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.^[350]
Vernel Fournier – jazz drummer.

Walt Hazzard – former NBA player.^[351]

Yusef Lateef – American Jazz musician.^[352]

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