cap28:

I still say that Gadaffi is not a Berber but a Bedouin Arab, but lets not deviate from the real issue which is that Gadaffi is a racist arab who does not have any respect for black african people. Its time that we woke up to realise what these arabs real agenda towards black africans is.  For some strange reason it still hasnt sunk into our brains that these arabs are our enemies - I would have thought that the conflicts in Darfur and southern sudan would have been enough for us to realise that these people are a threat to the existence of black africans but it appears that we still havent woken up from our state of blissful ignorance.

Of course Arabs are racist and Gadaffi is a fool who wants stated that more Arabs should move to Africa. I do not like him and I never will. But remember we have some Africans like the Hausa-Fulani who would rather side with the Arabs then some Africans.

EzeUche22:

Of course Arabs are racist and Gadaffi is a fool who wants stated that more Arabs should move to Africa. I do not like him and I never will. But remember we have some Africans like the Hausa-Fulani who would rather side with the Arabs then some Africans.

well if the hausa fulani are so stu.pi.d as to think that the arabs of north africa and the arabian peninsula regard them as equals then let them keep dreaming, Omar al bashir is not a full blooded arab - him and his genocidal cabinet are mainly half arab half african but in order to please their masters in saudi arabia, syria, jordan etc they murder, r.ape and destroy whole african communities inspite of this their masters in the arab world do not regard them as their equals.  Here are some quotations about black africans from some great arab minds such as  Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden:

Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as s.tu.pid” . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”


Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .” 


Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . . 

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.” 


“All African women are p.rostitute.s, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden

Darfur should be a lesson to all so called african muslims - when the chips are down the arabs do not regard them as their equals let alone their brothers.  A word is enough for the wise.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-colonialism-series-usafrica-the-arab-agenda.html

^^^^^^^^
Nice. But also rembr that blacks generally love anything light skinned n ot just the Hausa Fulani. Some even bleach to feel superior to others.

cap28:

well if the hausa fulani are so stu.pi.d as to think that the arabs of north africa and the arabian peninsula regard them as equals then let them keep dreaming, Omar al bashir is not a full blooded arab - him and his genocidal cabinet are mainly half arab half african but in order to please their masters in saudi arabia, syria, jordan etc they murder, r.ape and destroy whole african communities inspite of this their masters in the arab world do not regard them as their equals.  Here are some quotations about black africans from some great arab minds such as  Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden:

Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as s.tu.pid” . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”


Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .” 


Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . . 

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.” 


“All African women are p.rostitute.s, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden

Darfur should be a lesson to all so called african muslims - when the chips are down the arabs do not regard them as their equals let alone their brothers.  A word is enough for the wise.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-colonialism-series-usafrica-the-arab-agenda.html

black people suffer from dogmatism but we won't admit this.
i don't really want to analyze this as it relates to religion.
good point you have there

cap28:

well if the hausa fulani are so stu.pi.d as to think that the arabs of north africa and the arabian peninsula regard them as equals then let them keep dreaming, Omar al bashir is not a full blooded arab - him and his genocidal cabinet are mainly half arab half african but in order to please their masters in saudi arabia, syria, jordan etc they murder, r.ape and destroy whole african communities inspite of this their masters in the arab world do not regard them as their equals. Here are some quotations about black africans from some great arab minds such as Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden:

Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as s.tu.pid” . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”


Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .”


Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . .

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.”


“All African women are p.rostitute.s, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden

Darfur should be a lesson to all so called african muslims - when the chips are down the arabs do not regard them as their equals let alone their brothers. A word is enough for the wise.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-colonialism-series-usafrica-the-arab-agenda.html

I'm Glad to see some Truth seekers here. Hopefully, my people will listen.

9jaganja:

That Africans were in the middle east first, no doubt, that they established there, no doubt. But don't relate cultural and linguistic terms to think Africans can trace their ancestry to middle east. That is a fallacy. Majority of the stories and legends they have in the middle east are from Africa. Even in Europe. That doesn't mean we can trace our ancestral paths to Europe or Middle East. Let's be logical. The story of Tupac cuts through borders all over the world. That doesn't mean in future some Asians can trace their ancestry to the United States base on Tupac's story being heard. So the story of African legends spread across the world and was widely believed back then doesn't mean we have ancestral link etc,  Why is Morocco in the Arab league and not African Union? Quit confusing yourself in the name of being enlightened. Blacks are Blacks but we have different cultures. I'm Yoruba but that doesn't mean I ain't black does it? "Arab" is a collective word just like Black is for us. Caucasian is a collective word but we have Celtics, We have Vandals (German) etc,  Calling someone a Vandal doesn't mean that person ain't Caucasian same way calling me Yoruba doesn't mean I'm not Black. Calling them Turks, Berbers or whatever doesn't mean they ain't Arabs. Those cuntaculous cowards killing Africans up North aren't Africans they were invaders. Same way we can't call Caucasians Americans by Nativity. Stop confusing yourselves and when you read from those articles online, try evaluation before posting them up else you will make your self look like a total retard.

I dont think you have any idea of what you are talking about.

Arabs are Caucasians just in case you dont know. Caucasian refers to people of Europe, North Africa, Middle East

North African Berbers ARE an African people even the white looking ones. Genetics back it up.

If you looked at human genetic connections you would see that their is actually no such thing like "black people" in the social sense that it is used. A Fulani is less genetically different from a white berber than he is to somebody from Southern Africa.

 
Somebody does not have to have dark skin to be an African. "Black" and African are not synonyms

You need to free your mind from the bondage. This "black" label is just another means to create victims all over the place.

You quoted my post but you are not replying  my post.

Who said you need dark skin to be African? How did you deduct that from my post? I repeat, the people in North Africa are not Berbers. Arabs are Caucasian but that doesn't oppose anything I have said. You really want to prove me wrong at all cost. What you posted has no relevance to my post.


I don't think you understand my post well. The Fulani people you mention has no relevance to my point either to oppose it or to support it. My point was Arabs up North are not Berbers. And they have different clans or tribe in Arabia with different names but that doesn't mean they ain't Arabs. The people you call Africans are not Africans (The Arabs up north) by nativity. I know Berbers very well because I happen to be a friend of one. Their skin tone is different from that of Arabs and their hair looks like my bi racial hair. They are not the people ruling up north Africa.


You mention genetic line or whatever and that to me wasn't explanatory at all. Instead, I see it as a show of I know this and that. Chill dude, education is not competition.

cap28:

, some quotations about black africans from some great arab minds such as  Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden:

Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as s.tu.pid” . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”


Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .” 


Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . . 

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.” 


“All African women are p.rostitute.s, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden

Darfur should be a lesson to all so called african muslims - when the chips are down the arabs do not regard them as their equals let alone their brothers.  A word is enough for the wise.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-colonialism-series-usafrica-the-arab-agenda.html

I think everybody agreed that Arabs are racist, so all those quotations will not come as a surprise. The disagreement here is about Berbers being Arab. Berbers are not Arabs as has been shown before but you keep coming back to the point that Arabs hate black Africans, which is no news to anybody. We've known that for centuries.
What you may not know is that all of those racist Arabs you quoted have never traveled to sub-saharan Africa. They have never seen things for themselves and just like you they only rely on hearsay. Compare their statements with that of Ibn Batutta who has travelled extensively across the world.

"We ,  traveled by sea to the city of Kulwa [Kilwa in East Africa], Most of its people are Zunuj, extremely black, The city of Kulwa is amongst the most beautiful of cities and most elegantly built,  Their uppermost virtue is religion and righteousness and they are Shafi'i in rite."

Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1331

"Among [the Malli blacks'] good qualities is the small amount of injustice amongst them, for of all people they are the furthest from it, "

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"[The people of Mombasa in East Africa] are a religious people, trustworthy and righteous. Their mosques are made of wood, expertly built."

Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1331

"I met the qadi of Malli,  he is a black, has been on a pilgrimage, and is a noble person with good qualities of character,  I met the interpreter Dugha, a noble black and a leader of theirs,  They performed their duty towards me [as a guest] most perfectly; may God bless and reward them for their good deeds!"

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

I know very much about Arab racism towards black Africans people. What you may not know is that there are black skinned Arabs who actually are the original pure Arabs but the light skinned Arabs dislike them as much as they dislike black Africans. If you have followed the link to Tariq Berry's website which I posted before, you would have gotten a clearer picture of that. I am posting it again here maybe you can get to read it now.

http://savethetruearabs.com/
http://savethetruearabs..com/

I believe many Arabs so much hate black people because just like any other racist group they are Afraid of the day black people will rediscover their worth and stop feeling inferior to other races. But their biggest fear might be the fact that one day the world will discover that the purest and noblest Arabs may be Black skinned like us. A few quotations about the pure black Arabs;

"I am Miskeen, for those who know me. My color is dark, the color of the Arabs."

-Miskeen Al Darimi Arab poet of the 7th century AD

"Lank hair is the kind of hair that most non-Arab Persians and Romans have while kinky hair is the kind of hair that most Arabs have"
-Ibn Mandour 13th century AD, From the book "Lisan-Al-Arab"

And you should know that Lisan-Al-Arab is the most authoritative book on the Arabic language.

You can get more of such information from Tariq Berry's book "The Unknown Arabs"

IG, are there any books, written by any professional scholars, or any more comprehensive sources about the black semites of the middles east, rather than just a blog/website? I've long been interested in the stories I had read about the original inhabitants of many parts of the middle east being blacks, but have not found much information to validate them.

9jaganja:

You quoted my post but you are not replying  my post.

Who said you need dark skin to be African? How did you deduct that from my post? I repeat, the people in North Africa are not Berbers. Arabs are Caucasian but that doesn't oppose anything I have said. You really want to prove me wrong at all cost. What you posted has no relevance to my post.


I don't think you understand my post well. The Fulani people you mention has no relevance to my point either to oppose it or to support it. My point was Arabs up North are not Berbers. And they have different clans or tribe in Arabia with different names but that doesn't mean they ain't Arabs. The people you call Africans are not Africans (The Arabs up north) by nativity. I know Berbers very well because I happen to be a friend of one. Their skin tone is different from that of Arabs and their hair looks like my bi racial hair. They are not the people ruling up north Africa.


You mention genetic line or whatever and that to me wasn't explanatory at all. Instead, I see it as a show of I know this and that. Chill dude, education is not competition.

Dude you never provided back up for you claims. Not all berbers have bi-racial hair. Many Berber ethnicities look white, infact very very white. They are actually whiter than "Arabs". I have a lot of Berber friends from Morrocco who come from different Berber ethnicities and they are white as Europeans. It doesnt mean they are not indiginous Africans.

They are not Europeans at all. Their genetic haplogroup is African.

Just because those Berbers look white does not mean that they are Europeans and neither does somebody with dark skin and kinky hair mean a person is African at all


If you want to get into the technicalities of the genetic debate you could look it up and we could have a discussion about that.

sage:

Dude you never provided back up for you claims. Not all berbers have bi-racial hair. Many Berber ethnicities look white, infact very very white. They are actually whiter than "Arabs". I have a lot of Berber friends from Morrocco who come from different Berber ethnicities and they are white as Europeans. It doesnt mean they are not indiginous Africans.

They are not Europeans at all. Their genetic haplogroup is African.

Just because those Berbers look white does not mean that they are Europeans and neither does somebody with dark skin and kinky hair mean a person is African at all


If you want to get into the technicalities of the genetic debate you could look it up and we could have a discussion about that.

But Moroccans consider themselves Arabs and Morocco is a member of the Arab league. Moroccans were Moors hence where the name moors came from. There are black moors but they identify as Arabs and with Arabs. The ones here in the United states deny coming from Africa while thinking they are native Americans and fucktools are darker than me. I won't even play history with genetics at all with you. They are Arabs. Berbers even with white skin, have a very kinky hair. I don't know the people YOU call Berbers but they are not the invaders up north. I know Berbers because I've been in one of their settlements both in Nigeria and in Egypt. They are not the invaders up north. Genetic doesn't play in this because as we all know, every human has African blood in them so anyone could be claimed as African. I don't even want to talk about it no more fam!! Some Berbers have have some Arab in them too, This to you seem like a light skin conflict. I have seen Africans with very very light skin and they ain't albinos. It doesn't take a dark skin to be African but don't confuse who is African with who ain't. Dig up on Moors and please don't post from blogs. Hit a library or something.

PhysicsQED:

IG, are there any books, written by any professional scholars, or any more comprehensive sources about the black semites of the middles east, rather than just a blog/website? I've long been interested in the stories I had read about the original inhabitants of many parts of the middle east being blacks, but have not found much information to validate them.

You can start from Tariq Berry's book; "The Unknown Arabs". I gave a link to his site and blog because all his claims are backed by references.
The problem with working on such topics is that the works hardly ever  get published. You see, we live in a racist world and proving anything against conventional wisdom either gets you shut off or even eliminated. For example G. M. James got killed after his work "The Stolen Legacy" which proves  the black origin of Greek civilization. And when Ivan Van Sertima proved that black people were in America long before Columbus, his works were banned from publishing in Journals. So he and some other black intellectuals started the Journal of African Civilizations.

The last time I checked Amazon.com for Tariq Berry's book, it was out of stock.

The website for the Journal Of African Civilization can be found at http://www.journalofafricancivilizations.com/

The following is an article on black Arabs which you may find useful
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-original-black-african-arabs-of-arabia-part-1-ogu-eji-ofo-annu/

People must remember that Egypt was invaded by the Indo-Arabs and the Euro-Berbers in the 6th and 7th century, pushing out the black Egyptians to north and south Africa, they murdered, mutilated, castrated, raped and killed many black Egyptians, then suppressed them. This was called the ‘Arab Invasion.’ The results of the Arab invasion caused the original inhabitants of Egypt to shield or hide their true way of life, they shunned their cultural background and they used Islam as their veil, while secretly they still practiced their black Egyptian old ways.

9jaganja:

But Moroccans consider themselves Arabs and Morocco is a member of the Arab league. Moroccans were Moors hence where the name moors came from. There are black moors but they identify as Arabs and with Arabs. The ones here in the United states deny coming from Africa while thinking they are native Americans and fucktools are darker than me. I won't even play history with genetics at all with you. They are Arabs. Berbers even with white skin, have a very kinky hair. I don't know the people YOU call Berbers but they are not the invaders up north. I know Berbers because I've been in one of their settlements both in Nigeria and in Egypt. They are not the invaders up north. Genetic doesn't play in this because as we all know, every human has African blood in them so anyone could be claimed as African. I don't even want to talk about it no more fam!! Some Berbers have have some Arab in them too, This to you seem like a light skin conflict. I have seen Africans with very very light skin and they ain't albinos. It doesn't take a dark skin to be African but don't confuse who is African with who ain't. Dig up on Moors and please don't post from blogs. Hit a library or something.

dude you seem confused. The Berbers in Nigeria are Tuaregs who are mixed. The ethnic Berbers on the north of the continent are white and are Africans too. Beign an African has nothing to do with a phoney "black" identity or anything to do with black at all. Berber ethnicities Include Riff and Kabyle who are whites. Being an African has nothing at all to do with black or bi-racial at all.

Arabs are actually a minority in countries like morocco. Being in the Arab league does not mean they are not Africans. Even some east African countries are also members of the Arab league. Genetic facts are > than imaginary "black" sentiments. Just because a Berber is white and has straight hair does not mean they are not African. Those white Berbers are as African as a Yoruba or an Igbo man. I don't even know where you got this whole bi-racial stuff from

I also wanted to add that most Berbers are actually whiter than arabs in general and have straighter hair than Arabs. If you want we could get into the genetic argument that shows that the white Berbers are an African people towards the weekend. Also the moroccoans I know see themselves as Africans even though america classifies them as white/caucasian

definitely african


berber woman:

And we have millions of Nigerians willing to die for an Arab religion.

What a pity indeed.

At least the white British, after all the dirt they did, actually ended slavery globally. This was directly attributed to the evangelist movement across England and the USA in the 17th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism

In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. The slave system excited little protest until the 17th century[citation needed] when Quaker and evangelical religious groups condemned it as un-Christian and the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man. Though anti-slavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, they had little immediate effect on the centers of slavery: the West Indies, South America, and the Southern United States. The Somersett's case in 1772 that emancipated slaves in England, helped launch the movement to abolish slavery. Pennsylvania passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in 1780. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the United States followed in 1808. Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the French colonies abolished it 15 years later, while slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Political influence against the inhumanity of the slave trade grew strongly in the late 18th century. Many people, some African, some European by descent, influenced abolition[b]. Well known abolitionists in Britain included James Ramsay who had seen the cruelty of the trade at first hand, Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, and other members of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers, as well as Quakers who took most of the places on the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, having been the first to present a petition against the slave trade to the British Parliament and who founded the predecessor body to the Committee.[/b] As Dissenters, Quakers were not eligible to become British MPs in the late eighteenth and early 19th century, so the Anglican evangelist William Wilberforce was persuaded to become the leader of the parliamentary campaign. Clarkson became the group's most prominent researcher, gathering vast amounts of information about the slave trade, gaining first hand accounts by interviewing sailors and former slaves at British ports such as Bristol, Liverpool and London.

The Arabs resisted. The Arabs enslave blacks, even today, they are called "domestic servants".

However the ultimate servitude is mental, they have you pray 6 times a day towards the world Arab capital Mecca. They have you waste your life savings by visiting it, for some empty pilgrimage, so they can treat you like a sub human. Read stories of Nigerians being mistreated in Saudi.

Simply unacceptable.

strangleyo:

And we have millions of Nigerians willing to die for an Arab religion.

What a pity indeed.

At least the white British, after all the dirt they did, actually ended slavery globally. This was directly attributed to the evangelist movement across England and the USA in the 17th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism


The Arabs resisted. The Arabs enslave blacks, even today, they are called "domestic servants".

However the ultimate servitude is mental, they have you pray 6 times a day towards the world Arab capital Mecca. They have you waste your life savings by visiting it, for some empty pilgrimage, so they can treat you like a sub human. Read stories of Nigerians being mistreated in Saudi.

Simply unacceptable.

What a pity indeed. In this day and age people still don't know the difference between Arabic and Islam.
But you can direct your Islamphobia to the following people

    * Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL player[3]
    * Abel Xavier - former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[4]
    * Abu Tammam - 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[5]
    * 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.[6]
    * Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) - al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Homeschooled Christian.[7]
    * Addas - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time. One of the earliest Christian convert to Islam.
    * Adi ibn Hatim - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time.
    * Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[8][9]
    * Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative converted from Catholicism[10][11][12]
    * Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[13]
    * Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[14]
    * Alexander Litvinenko - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[15][16]
    * Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[17] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[18][19]
    * André Carson - former Baptist,[20] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[21]
    * Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[22]
    * Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[23]
    * Anthony Mundine - former Australian rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons and now a boxer

B

    * Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
    * Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[24]
    * Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[25]
    * Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[26]
    * Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[27]
    * 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[28]

C

    * Colleen LaRose - American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
    * Chris Eubank - British boxer[29]
    * Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.[30]
    * Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[31]

D

    * Daniel Maldonado - American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[32]
    * Daniel Streich - former member of the right-wing party, Swiss People's Party
    * Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[33]
    * Danny Williams - British boxer[34]
    * David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[35]
    * David Benjamin Keldani, a former Catholic priest.
    * Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star [36]
    * Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[37][38]

E

    * Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
    * Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.[39]
    * Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted From Catholicism.[40]

F

    * Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[41]

G

    * Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[42]
    * Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[43]
    * George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[44]
    * Germaine Lindsay - one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[45][46][47] in which 52 people were murdered.

H

    * Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox; head of the Zaytuna Institute.[48]
    * Hedley Churchward - English painter[49]

I

    * Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[50]
    * Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[51]
    * Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[52]
    * Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) converted From Catholicism.[53]
    * Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[54]
    * Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[55][56]
    * Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[57]

J

    * C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[58]
    * Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[59]
    * James Yee - previously Lutheran[60] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[61]
    * Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5.[62]
    * Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[45][63][64]
    * Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[65]
    * Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[citation needed]
    * St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[66]
    * John Walker Lindh - the "American Taliban" converted From Catholicism[67][68]
    * John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[69]
    * John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[70]
    * Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[71][72]
    * Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[73]

K

    * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[74]
    * Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted From Catholicism[75]
    * Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[76]
    * 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.[77]
    * Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer converted From Catholicism.[78]
    * Köse Mihal - a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[79][80]
    * Kumba Ialá - a Guinea-Bissau politician who converted in 2008.

L

    * Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[81]
    * Loon - American hip hop and rap artist [82]
    * Lee Hughes - professional association football player, currently playing for Notts County F.C. [83]

M

    * Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[84]
    * Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[85]
    * Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[86]
    * Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted From Catholicism.[87]
    * Matthew Yusuf Smith, also known as Yusuf and Indigo Jo, author of the award winning blog[88] Indigo Jo Blogs, where he muses about life and courts controversy[89]
    * Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[90]
    * Mike Tyson - Is an American boxer to Sunni[91]
    * Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[92]
    * Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From Catholicism.[93]
    * Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[94]
    * Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[95]
    * 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.[96]
    * Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[97][98] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam.[99] 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[100]

N

    * Nicolas Anelka - French football player[101]
    * Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam, Islamic scholar.[102]
    * Nuh ibn Zbigniew - from Catholicism to Islam, Islamic writer and speaker

O

    * Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
    * Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[103]
    * Omar Hammami - American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[104]
    * Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[105]

P

    * Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus, converted from Catholicism.[106]
    * Pierre Vogel - German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
    * Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist, converted From Catholicism.[107]
    * Preacher Moss - Former Baptist,[108] American comedian and comedy writer.[109]

R

    * Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From Catholicism.[110]
    * René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From Catholicism.[111][112]
    * Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist) [113]
    * Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[114]
    * 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.[115]
    * Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[116]
    * Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, converted From Catholicism.[117]
    * 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.[118]
    * Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[119]
    * Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[120]
    * Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[121][122]
    * Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos [123]

S

    * Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[124] who was previously Zoroastrian. In search for truth, he traveled to Syria to follow Christianity. Upon the death of his teachers, he was directed to head to Arabia, where he was told the final prophet will rise. He later converted to Islam and became one of Muhammad's first companions. Is said to have been called by Muhammad as one of the Ahlul Bayt though there was no genealogical relationship.
    * 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.[125]
    * Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted From Catholicism.[126]
    * Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface" - American rapper[127]
    * Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[128]
    * 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.[129]
    * Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[130] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[131]
    * Snoop Dogg - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.[132]
    * Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[133]
    * Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[134]

T

    * 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[135]
    * 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.[136][137][138]
    * Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[139]
    * Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[140]
    * Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[141]
    * Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted From Catholicism.[142]

V

    * Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted From Catholicism.[143]

W

    * 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.[144]
    * 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.[145]

Y

    * Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[146]
    * Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[147]
    * Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[148]
    * Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[149][150]

Z

    * Zaid Shakir - American Muslim convert former Baptist, speaker, intellectual, author, and resident scholar of Zaytuna Institute in the United States.[151][152]
    * 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.[153]

[edit] From Judaism

    * Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.[154]
    * Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential 12th century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[155]
    * Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al was an 12th century Arab Muslim mathematician and astronomer of Jewish descent.[156] His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco, but al-Samawʾal converted to Islam.[157]
    * Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[158]
    * Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.[159]
    * Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s. Later, after WWII, he became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[160] Also translated the Qur'an into English and wrote several books on Islam. His son Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the City University of New York
    * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - 13th century Persian physician[161]
    * Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[162]
    * Tali Fahima - Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.[163]
    * Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[164]

[edit] From Dharmic religions
[edit] From Buddhism

    * Daniel Moore - poet [165]
    * 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.[166]
    * Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.[167]
    * Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.[168]
    * Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266).[169]
    * Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.[170]
    * Hussein Ye - An Islamic scholar of Chinese descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV.[171]

[edit] From Hinduism

    * Murshid Quli Khan - the Mughal governor of Bengal.[172]
    * Malik Kafur - Indian military general.[173]
    * Malik Maqbul - Prime Minister or Wazir of the Delhi Sultanate,[174] during the reign of Feroz Shah Tughlaq.
    * Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Danish cleric.[175]
    * Rama Varma Kulashekhara - Purportedly the first Indian king to accept Islam[176][177]
    * Muhammed Yusuf Khan - Born Maruthanayagam Pillai, he converted to Islam[178] and later served as Commandant for the British East India Company troops.
    * Divya Bharti - Indian actress who converted on marriage to producer Sajid Nadiadwala
    * 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.[179]
    * Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer[180]

    * Kabir Suman- Modern Bengali singer & songwriter officially converted to Islam from Hinduism in 2000.[181]
    * Tansen - Notable musician and poet.[182][183]
    * A.R. Rahman (stands for Allah Rakha Rahman) - Modern South Indian singer ,songwriter & Oscar winner officially converted to Islam from Hinduism.[184]
    * Kamala Surayya - a.k.a. Madhavikutty (Malayalam: മാധവിക്കുട്ടി) (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) She was born in a conservative Hindu Nair (Nallappattu) family having Royal anscestry who was an Indian writer who openly and honestly discussed and wrote about the sexual desires of Indian women, which made her an iconoclast of her generation. She officially converted to Islam from Hinduism.[185]
    * Steven Vikash Chand - Arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests[186]

    * 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.

[edit] From Sikhism

    * Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.[187]

[edit] Other
[edit] From Paganism
See also: List of Sahaba

    * Berke - grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde who was the first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.[188]
    * David Myatt - from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist[189]
    * Negudar - Mongol general and noyan[190]
    * Nogai Khan - Mongol general and great-grandson of Genghis Khan.[191]
    * Samori Ture - founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa.[192][193]
    * Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan - 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.[194]
    * Tuda Mengu - Mongol leader of the Golden Horde[195]
    * Tughlugh Timur - the Khan of Moghulistan.[196]

[edit] From Zoroastrianism

    * Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa - author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian.[197]
    * Naubakht - Pahlavi translator of the Abassid court.[198]
    * Fadl ibn Sahl - Persian vizier of the Abassid era.[199]
    * 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.[200]

[edit] From Atheism

    * Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.[201]
    * Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)[202]
    * Martin Lings - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.[203]
    * Mos Def - American rapper and actor.[204]
    * Nursultan Nazarbayev - The incumbent President of Kazakhstan. Formerly held atheistic views during the Soviet era.[205]

[edit] Undetermined former religion

    * Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.[206]
    * Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.[207]
    * Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.[208]
    * Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.[209][210]
    * Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.[211]
    * Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.[212]
    * Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[213]
    * Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.[214]
    * Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist;[215] converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.[216]
    * Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.[217]
    * Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer, Former 2 time Super Middleweight Champion.[218]
    * Apisai Tora - Fijian politician.[219]

B

    * B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.[220]
    * Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.[221]
    * Bob Denard - French mercenary.[222]
    * Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[223]
    * Busta Rhymes - American rapper, songwriter and actor

C

    * Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.[224]
    * Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.[225]
    * Celestino Caballero - Boxer, Current Super Bantamweight Champion.[226]
    * Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.[227]
    * Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".[228]
    * Christopher de Bellaigue - journalist and author
    * Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.[229][230]
    * Colleen LaRose - alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.[231]
    * Craig Hodges - former NBA player.[232]

D

    * David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.[233]
    * 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.[234]
    * Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.[235]
    * Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.[236]

E

    * Edoardo Agnelli - eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.
    * Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.[237]

F

    * Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.[238]

G

    * Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.[239]
    * Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.[240]
    * Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.[241]
    * Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.[242]

H

    * 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.[243]
    * H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.[244]

I

    * Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[245]
    * Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[246]
    * Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.[247]
    * Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.[248]

J

    * Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.[249]
    * Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.[250]
    * Jason Walters - of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.[251]
    * 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.[252][253]
    * Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.[254]
    * Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan
    * John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.[255][256]
    * John Ward - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.[257]
    * Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.[258][259][260]
    * José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.[261]
    * Juan Carlos Gomez - Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.[262]

K

    * Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.[263]
    * Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.[264]

L

    * Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.[265]
    * Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.[266]

M

    * MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.[267]
    * Malcolm X - American to Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam, African-American civil rights leader.[268]
    * Malik ul Salih - established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.[269]
    * Maryam Jameelah - formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.[270]
    * Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.[271]
    * Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.[272][273]
    * Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.[274]
    * Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.[275][276]
    * Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom [277]

N

    * Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.[278]
    * 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.[279]

O

    * Omar Ong Yoke Lin - (1917–2010) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.[280]
    * Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.[281]

P

    * Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.[282]

Q

    * 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.[283]

R

    * Rakan Ben Williams - suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist.[284]
    * Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.[285]
    * Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.[286]
    * Ronald Bell - musician.[287]
    * Rory McLeod - British snooker player.

S

    * Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.[288]
    * Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.[289]
    * Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.[290]

T

    * 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.[291]
    * Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.[292]

U

    * Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[246]

V

    * Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.[293]

W

    * Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.[294]

Y

    * Yusuf Chambers - U.K. based Da'ee of international fame. Yusuf Chambers is a young preacher from London, has greatly involved himself in many organizations in U.K. and outside like Peace TV, Islam Channel, Al-Jumuah magazine, Unity TV etc.
    * Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.[295]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam

IG:

What a pity indeed. In this day and age people still don't know the difference between Arabic and Islam.
But you can direct your Islamphobia to the following people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam

Nope. Islam is a direct derivation of Arab cultural norms. It is a system designed to keep conquered territories unified. The Quran is a glorified rule book, it controls every aspect of life. And how cunningly its authors insinuated that Arabic must be understood to understand the true words of god. In this manner, they can spread their Arab language upon a multitude of different people. 

It's an ingenious system. But nevertheless, like most religions, designed to brainwash and control unruly masses.

When I see a bunch of Fulani/Housas murder their fellow countrymen because somewhere on the other side of the planet some muslim was wronged, it makes me shake my head in pity. These same people are seen as sub-humans by the authors of this religion. A damn shame indeed.

And Islam is a one way street, very ingenous indeed. Once muslim, always muslim.


Apostasy:

Law

[edit]International law

See also: Religious conversion

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, considers the recanting of a person's religion a human right legally protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: "The Committee observes that the freedom to 'have or to adopt' a religion or belief necessarily entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, including the right to replace one's current religion or belief with another or to adopt atheistic views [, ]  Article 18.2. bars coercion that would impair the right to have or adopt a religion or belief, including the use of threat of physical force or penal sanctions to compel believers or non-believers to adhere to their religious beliefs and congregations, to recant their religion or belief or to convert."[5]

[edit]Countries

Iran – illegal (death penalty)[6]
Saudi Arabia – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Nigeria – illegal in twelve states (death penalty)[citation needed]
Qatar – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Sudan – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Mauritania – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Afghanistan – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Somalia – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Yemen – illegal (death penalty)[citation needed]
Malaysia – illegal in five states (fine, imprisonment, and flogging)[citation needed]
Canada – legal (protected under Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)
Netherlands – legal (protected under Article Six of the Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
United States – legal (protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution)
India – legal, Although the Constitution of India allows for freedom of religion, in some provinces such as Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and some others anti-conversion laws exist due to the unfair ways adopted by some sects and religions for mass conversion and social tensions of the conversion arising due to it.) [7]
Philippines – legal (protected under Article III, Section 5 of the Philippine Constitution)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostate#International_law

Christianity

Julian the Apostate the Roman emperor, given an Arian Christian education by those who assassinated his family, rejected his upbringing and declared himself to be a pagan once it was safe to do so.
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford was declared 'The Great Apostate' by Parliament in 1628 for changing his political support from Parliament to Charles I, thus shifting his religious support from Protestantism to Arminianism.
Abraham ben Abraham, (Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn) Potocki), a Polish nobleman of the Potocki family who is claimed to have converted to Judaism and was burned at the stake in 1749 because he had renounced Catholicism and had become an observant Jew.
Maria Monk sometimes considered an apostate of the Catholic Church, though there is little evidence that she ever was a Catholic.
Lord George Gordon, initially a zealous Protestant and instigator of the Gordon riots of 1780, he finally renounced Christianity and converted to Judaism, for which he was ostracized.
Brian Moore, spoke strongly about the effect of the Catholic Church on life in Ireland.

[edit]Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali labelled an apostate by Theo van Gogh according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali[40]
Tasleema Nasreen, from Bangladesh, the author of Lajja, has been declared apostate – "an apostate appointed by imperialist forces to vilify Islam" – by several fundamentalist clerics in Dhaka[41]
Younus Shaikh, from Pakistan was sentenced to death for his remarks on Muhammad[42]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostate#International_law

tpiah:

definitely african


berber woman:

Tuaregs are mixed Berbers and are Africans

the white ethnic groups of berbers are also African

Different Berber ethnicities look different. Riffs and Kabyles are "white" while Tuaregs can be considered "black"


The point i was trying to make is that the white Berbers are also Africans.

Beign an African has nothing to do with "black"