I read with disdain the MOU signed by FG and LASG for a new port In Lekki

https://www.nairaland.com/1135506/fg-lagos-sign-mou-lekki

The Majority of the importers and importation are mostly those from the east of Nigeria and i see no reason why the ports in Warri, Onne,Calabar,Akwa-ibom should not be upgraded and made standard to handle the same volume of goods handled in Tincan and Apapa wharf, this again speaks volume of the lack of insensitivity of those in Govt of the plight of importers who clear their good from Lagos and pay exhorbitant fees to transport same good through our terrible roads to other parts of the country.

Please let your views be intelligent, no childish ideas

I will welcome this developement with enthusiasm

List of converts to Christianity from Islam

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

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Ibrahim Abdullah - American former PLO terrorist.[6]
Abo of Tiflis - Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.[1]
Taysir Abu Saada - a former member of the PLO and the founder of the christian ministry Hope For Ishmael after he converted to christianity. He was Yasir Arafat's personal driver.[7][8]
Abraham of Bulgaria - Martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.[9]
St. Adolphus - Christian martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.[10]
Al-Mu'eiyyad - Abbasid prince and third son of Abbasid caliph, Al-Mutawakkil. He was converted to Christianity along with his three confidants by St. Theodore of Edessa, accepting the name "John" upon baptism.[11][12]
Jabalah ibn al-Aiham - last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and Jordan in the seventh century AD. After the Islamic conquest of Levant he converted to Islam in AD 638. He reverted to Christianity later on and lived in Anatolia until he died in AD 645.[13]
Magdi Allam (baptized as Magdi Cristiano Allam) - Italy's most famous Islamic affairs journalist.[4]
Zachariah Anani - former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter [14]
Hussain Andaryas - Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist.[15]
Matthew Ashimolowo - Nigerian-born British pastor and evangelist.[16]
Aurelius and Natalia - Christian martyrs who were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.[17]
Johannes Avetaranian - (born Muhammad Shukri Efendi), Christian missionary and Turkish descendant of Prophet Muhammad.[18]
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Josephine Bakhita - Roman Catholic saint from Darfur, Sudan.[19]
Sheikh Ahmed Barzani - Head of Barzani Tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan and older brother of Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish nationalist leader. He announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931 during the anti-government uprising.[20]
Simeon Bekbulatovich - Khan of Qasim Khanate.[21]
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.[22]
Francis Bok - Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith.[23]
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Republic Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).[24]
Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni - President of Benin.[25]
Sayed Borhan khan - Khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679.[21]
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Hansen Clarke - the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district.[26]
Eldridge Cleaver - Author, prominent American civil rights leader, and key member of the Black Panther Party. He converted to Mormonism.[27][28]
Constantine the African - Baghdad-educated Muslim who died in 1087 as a Christian monk at Monte Cassino.[29][30]
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Nonie Darwish - Egyptian American writer and public speaker.[2]
Sedar Dedeoglu - a Turk who claims to be a descendant of Islam's prophet Muhammad has converted to Christianity while living in Germany.[citation needed]
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti - Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990.[31]
Mehdi Dibaj - Iranian pastor and Christian activist.[32]
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Estevanico - Berber originally from Morocco and one of the early explorers of the Southwestern United States.[33]
Gulshan Esther - Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.[34]
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Donald Fareed - Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister.[35]
Jacob Frank - 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also of King David. Frank publicly converted to Islam in 1757 and later to Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism now referred to as Frankism.[36]
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Mark A. Gabriel- Egyptian Islamic scholar and writer[37]
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross- Counter-terrorism expert and attorney (from Judaism to Islam to Christianity).[38][39]
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - an American football defensive end who was drafted by the Green Bay Packers and is currently a free agent.
Ruffa Gutierrez - Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)[40]
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Umar ibn Hafsun - Leader of anti-Ummayad dynasty forces in southern Iberia. Hafsun converted to Christianity with his sons and ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the castle Bobastro as his residence.[41]
Naveed Afzal Haq - Pakistani American charged for the July 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting. He converted to Christianity in December, 2005 but reverted to Islam by the time of the shooting.[42]
Mohammed Hegazy - First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian Government. Threats force Egyptian convert to hide, MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer Sat August 11,[43]
Aben Humeya - (born Fernando de Valor) Morisco Chief who was crowned the Emir of Andalusia by his followers and led the Morisco Revolt against Philip II of Spain.[44]
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Tunch Ilkin - former American football player.[45]
Qadry Ismail - former American football player.[46]
Raghib Ismail - former American football player.[47]
Esther John - a Pakistani Christian nurse.[48] She is counted in ten most famous Christian martyrs of the present day.
Lina Joy - Malaysian convert to Christianity. The desire to have her conversion recognized was the subject of a court case in Malaysia.[49]
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Alexander Kazembek - Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of Azeri origin .[50]
Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).[51]
Kitty Kirkpatrick - born in India and brought up as Shia Muslim.
Emir Kusturica - Bosnian Serb filmmaker and actor.[52][53]
[edit]L

Imad ud-din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Qur'anic translator.[54]
Dr. Nur Luke - Uyghur Bible translator.[55]
[edit]M

Fadhma Aït Mansour - Mother of French writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.[56]
Josef Mässrur - (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese Turkestan with the Mission Union of Sweden.[57]
Carlos Menem - former President of Argentina. Raised a Muslim but converted to Roman Catholicism, a constitutional requirement for accessing the presidency until 1994.[58]
St. George El Mozahem - A coptic saint[59][60][61]
Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan - Last khan of Kazan Khanate.[21]
Muhsin Muhammad - current American football player for the Carolina Panthers, raised in a Muslim household, later converted to Christianity.[62]
Paul Mulla - Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.[63]
[edit]N

Marina Nemat - Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government. Born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity.[64]
Youcef Nadarkhani [65]
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Shams Pahlavi - Iranian princess and the elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.[66]
Hamid Pourmand - former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the Jama'at-e Rabbani, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God church in Iran.[67]
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Abdul Rahman - Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure.[68]
Stefan Razvan - Gypsy prince who ruled Moldavia for six months in 1595.[69]
Emily Ruete - (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of Zanzibar and Oman.[70][71][72]
Ibrahim Rugova - an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) is rumored to have converted to Christianity just before his death in January 2006.[73]
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Nazli Sabri - Queen consort of Egypt.[74][75][76]
Begum Samru - Powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh.[77]
Mohamed Alí Seineldín - a former Argentine army colonel who participated in two failed coup attempts against the democratically elected governments of both President Raúl Alfonsín and President Carlos Menem in 1988 and 1990.[78]
Hakeem Seriki (AKA Chamillionaire) - American rapper[79][80]
The Sibirsky family - The foremost of many Genghisid (Shaybanid) noble families formerly living in Russia.[81]
The Shihab family - prominent Lebanese noble family who originally belonged to Sunni Islam and converted to Christianity at the end of the 18th century[82]
Walid Shoebat - American author and former member of the PLO.[83]
Nasir Siddiki - Canadian evangelist, author, and business consultant.[84]
Amir Sjarifuddin - Indonesian socialist leader who later became the prime minister of Indonesia during its National Revolution.[5]
Skanderbeg - Albanian military leader. Skanderbeg was forcibly converted to Islam from Christianity, but reverted back to Christianity later in life.[85]
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.[86]
Hossein Soodmand - executed for apostasy. Although born a Muslim, by 1989 Hossein had been a Christian for 25 years.
Patrick Sookhdeo - British Anglican canon[87]
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Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal - Two Turkish Christian converts who went on trial in 2006, on charges of "allegedly insulting 'Turkishness' and inciting religious hatred against Islam".[88]
Maria Temryukovna - a Circassian princess, and second wife to Ivan IV of Russia who was born in a Muslim upbringing, and baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church on August 21, 1561.[89]
Ghorban Tourani - former Iranian Sunni Muslim who became a Christian minister. Following multiple murder threats, he was abducted and murdered on November 22, 2005.[90]
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Utameshgaray of Kazan - Khan of Kazan Khanate.[21]
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George Weah - Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).[91]
[edit]Y

Mosab Hassan Yousef - son of a Hamas leader.[92]
Ramzi Yousef - Al Qaeda member and the main participant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and The Bojinka plot.[93][94]
[edit]Z

Saye Zerbo - President of the republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) [95

Le Stylo:

Are you kidding me?! So all these guys are worse off?!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer.[1] He initially converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam to mainstream Sunni Islam.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[2]
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[3]
Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[4]
Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.[5]
Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[6][7]
Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[8]
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.
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL player[9]
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.[10]
Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[11][12] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam.[13] Famous boxer.
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[14]
Idi Amin - military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam.[15]
Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[16][17]
Nicolas Anelka - French football player[18]
Farqad as-Sabakhi - an Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian[19] known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.[20]
Aminah Assilmi - Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
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Kristiane Backer - a German television presenter, television journalist and author residing in London.
Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[21]
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.[22]
Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[23]
Abdullah Beg of Kartli - Georgian convert to Islam[24] who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[25]
Ronald Bell or Khalis Bayyan (born 1 November 1951, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer, composer and saxophonist
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[26]
Ibrahim Bey - an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.
Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[27]
Wojciech Bobowski - raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.[28]
Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[29]
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa was an 18th-century French nobleman.[30]
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.[31][32][33]
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.[34]
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[35]
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[citation needed]
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Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted from Catholicism.[36]
André Carson - former Baptist,[37] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[38]
Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[39]
Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star[40]
Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
Chrisye - Indonesian singer. He changed his birth name to Chrismansyah Rahadi from Christian Rahadi
Hedley Churchward - English painter[41]
Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[42]
Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[43][44][45]
Robert D. Crane is the former adviser to President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.[46]
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Ian Dallas - Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[47]
Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
Snoop Dogg - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.[48]
Mir Aadil Former Kupwara Protestant converted to sunnism.
[edit]E

Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th-century explorer and writer[49]
Wadih el-Hage born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon, a former al-Qaeda member.[citation needed]
Nathan Ellington - English football player[50]
C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[51]
Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted from Catholicism[52]
Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[53]
Erekle I of Kakheti - Georgian convert to Islam[54] who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[55]
Chris Eubank - British boxer[56]
Emeka Ezeugo: is a former Nigerian football defender and midfielder played in 1994 World Cup. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Ezeugo) Referencehttp://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-02-13&nid=50241)
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Shah Shahidullah Faridi - Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.[57]
Danilo Fernando - Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando
Firouz - an Armenian Christian convert to Islam[58] who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.[59]
Myriam Francois-Cerrah - a British actress, scholar and presenter who converted to Islam in 2003.
Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, who converted from Catholicism.[60]
[edit]G

Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) - al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Home-schooled Christian.[61]
George Galloway - British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West.[62] This is denied by Galloway himself[63]
Roger Garaudy - French philosopher who converted from protestant.[64]
George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[65]
Christian Gonzalez - Indonesian-Uruguay footballer. He changed his name to Mustafa Habibi Gonzalez
Abdur Raheem Green - a British convert to Islam and is a founder of the Islamic Education & Research Academy.
René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, who converted from Catholicism.[66][67]
[edit]H

Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet - a distinguished British convert to Islam.[43][68][69]
Omar Hammami - American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[70]
Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos[71]
Joel Hayward, British scholar, author and poet.[72]
Murad Wilfred Hofmann - NATO official, converted from Catholicism[73]
Markus Horison - Indonesian Goalkeeper. He changed his name to Muhammad Haris Maulana.
Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[74]
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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.[75]
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.[76]
T. B. Irving - An American scholar, author and translator
Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[77]
[edit]J

Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[78]
Ibn Jazla - an 11th-century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.[79]
Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - Michael Jackson's elder brother & one of the original former members of The Jackson 5.[80]
Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted from Catholicism.[81]
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Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
Nuh Ha Mim Keller - Islamic scholar who converted from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam.[82]
Allahverdi Khan - general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.[83]
Mirza Malkam Khan - an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.[84]
Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[85]
Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer who converted from Catholicism.[86]
Koca Yusuf Pasha - a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.[87]
Köse Mihal - a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[88][89]
Esma Khammar - Swedish woman and blogger of Journal of a Muslim convert. She converted in November 2000, before the 911.
[edit]L

Colleen LaRose - American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
Leo of Tripoli - a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.[90]
Tage Lindbom (1909-2001), Swedish historian, PhD in Political science. He was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon.
Germaine Lindsay - one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[43][91][92] in which 52 people were murdered.
John Walker Lindh - an American insuegent, known as the "American Taliban", who converted from Catholicism[93][94]
Alexander Litvinenko - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[95][96]
Loon - American hip hop and rap artist[97]
Badr al-Din Lu'lu', an Armenian convert to Islam[98] and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted from Catholicism.[99]
Lynn Massyn: Former Miss South Africa. Won the contest in 1976
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Daniel Maldonado - American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[100]
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[101]
Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) who converted from Catholicism.[102]
Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[103]
Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[104]
Mleh, Prince of Armenia - an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism,[105] he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
Preacher Moss - American comedian who converted from Baptist Christianity[106] American comedian and comedy writer.[107]
Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted from Catholicism.[108]
Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus who converted from Catholicism.[109]
Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[110]
Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[111]
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John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[112]
Adam Neuser - a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.[113]
Tech N9ne - an American rapper born to a Christian mother who converted to Islam during adulthood.[114]
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Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[115]
Wayne Parnell - South African cricketer converted to Islam in January 2011.[116]
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha - born to a Christian Croatian[117] family, he was an Ottoman general and statesman from Hercegovina.
Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha - Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.[118]
Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[119]
Omar Pasha - Ottoman general who converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[120]
Raghib Pasha - was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt[121] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.[122]
Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[123]
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.[124]
St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[125]
Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[126]
Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[127]
Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier and human rights activist who converted from Catholicism.[128]
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William Abdullah Quilliam - 19th-century British poet, ambassador and journalist.[129]
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Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[130]
Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[131][132]
Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)[133]
Franck Ribéry - a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[134]
Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[135][136]
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.[137]
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Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[138] who was previously Zoroastrian.
Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement converted from Catholicism[139][140][141]
Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesian stagewright, director, and actress [142]
Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface" - American rapper[143]
Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[144]
Philippe Senderos- Swiss footballer, converted from Christianity.[145]
Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[146]
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.[147][148]
Omar Sharif - Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.[149][150]
Ahmad Faris Shidyaq - a Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.[151]
Marcio Souza Da Silva - Brazilian Footballer
Anthony Small - professional boxer[152]
Cat Stevens - famous English musician, officially changed his name to Yusuf Islam
Sean Stone - Son of Oliver Stone and documentary producer.[153]
Daniel Streich - A Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People’s Party who led the campaign for the national ban on the construction of new minarets. [154]
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Abu Tammam - 9th-century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[155]
Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[156]
Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[157]
Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[158]
Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[159]
Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[160][161]
Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[162]
Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[163]
Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[164]
Anselm Turmeda - a Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam[165]
Mike Tyson - American boxer and Sunni Muslim[166]
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Ismael Urbain - French journalist and interpreter.
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.[167]
[edit]V

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[168]
Pierre Vogel - a German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[169]
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Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[170] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[171]
Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[172] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[173][174]
Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[175]
Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[176][177]
John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[178]
Danny Williams - British boxer[179]
Sonny Bill Williams - New Zealand Rugby Union Rep player(All Blacks)& NZ Rep League Player(Kiwis),[180]
Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[181]
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Malcolm X - was a leading African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. He converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam and later to mainstream Sunni Islam.
Abel Xavier - former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[182]
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Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[183]
James Yee - previously Lutheran[184] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[185]
Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted from Catholicism.[186]
Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.[187]
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Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[188]

Culled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam_from_Christianity

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shedraq1: Immorality and the Nigerian society

THE Nigerian society today has gone beyond reason and commonsense. It is, maybe, because we now live in the so called global village, daily stung by the effects of socio-globalisation where many, most especially the youths, are either Facebooking, Tweeting or using all brands of tablet, Androids and I-phones. It is, perhaps, why in the last couple of years, an ever increasing moral and social decadence seems to hit us in the face. From East to West and South to North, the societal morass paints a sorry situation of how our customs, traditions and culture are fast eroding, overtaken by Western civilisation.

Although there may be not much wrong in borrowing from a foreign culture or civilisation, what is hard to understand is the way we have pushed decorum and commonsense aside, perpetrating acts inimical to the African culture, sense and high moral ethos in the name of civilisation.

The history of the Japanese has been one of borrowing. Aside from wanting to be at par with the powers that be, Japan took almost every culture which they found suitable for their growth and development. Chinese civilisation stemmed largely from Japan, yet Japan would not swallow what it sought to borrow from others hook, line and sinker. They never forgot where they were coming from and where they were going. What they took from outside was blended with their own civilization. This went a long way in aid of their education sector. Such was it that their own Confucianism and emperor worship that became the norm was different from those of the Chinese.

During the Meiji era, in a bid to modernise, the Japanese reformed practically all strata of their society, borrowing from Western models of development. The military was reformed using the German model, while the French, British and American systems of democracy and civil rule were adopted and used by the Meiji reformers. Today, Japan may look industrialised and westernised, yet the people have never exchanged their indigenous cultures for another.

The late 60s down to the 90s in Nigeria happened to be a period a philosopher described as solitary, brutish, nasty and short. Despite the societal cleavages, people still maintained a sense of moral decorum. In the 90s people were hardly seen smoking in public, for smokers considered it a serious crime and shame. Dressing half naked was met with harsh criticisms and sexual immorality was not taken with kid gloves. Many always had it at the back of their minds that they must not forget the child of whom they were. Several acts of immorality were done in secret because doing it openly obviously was a shame for the individual and his immediate family.

What stares us in the face today is a far cry to what it was in the past. We care less about the kind of dress we put on whether it debases the very core of human nature or not. We have turned to dogs whose sexual urge is displayed anywhere and everywhere. Ironically, even dogs these days seem to behave far better than many a human being. What with the sexual romp they display in public places. Hotels spring up every now and then with youths patronizing them as if salvation exists there. On the streets, hooligans, area boys and vagabonds litter everywhere, disturbing the peace. At the slightest provocation, mayhem is unleashed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the country. Prostitution has become the order of the day and is highly promoted in our ivory towers and marketed on highways in cities. From Allen Avenue to the heart of sensitive places in Abuja, these comfort ladies bestride our heartlands like a colossus.

Cigarettes have almost become obsolete as marijuana; it is all brands of hard drugs that are ingested daily: they have taken centre stage. Alcohol without measure is consumed with reckless abandon by the youth. Those who do not take them are usually seen by their peers as backward. Ex-rated films, immoral movies, shows and programmes are displayed on our screens without regulatory agencies willing to censor them, despite their sad effect on children.

Radios blast profane music and many celebrate artists who produce such low music. In fact, without such brand of music, many artists are less recognised.

Worse of all are the parents who ordinarily are supposed to be the first pointer towards a better society. They are busy pursuing worthless things to the detriment of their wards. When a child has no parental care, he tends to become a social deviant, committing acts inimical to the society at large. The government, too, with its wanton act of kleptocracy, to-hell-with-the-people and I-don’t-give-a-damn attitude, many Nigerians have suddenly appeared to be their own local government, forgetting their duties to the home and society.

The Western culture we all struggle to imbibe has gotten us nowhere, but rather, continues to destroy the social fabric of our society. The Nigerian youths rather than being productive are either on facebook, tweeting or even watching football or season films which earn them nothing but stagnation. There is no harm in having fun, but when we do it with so much addiction, forgetting we have a role to play for ourselves and the society as a whole, it then becomes a huge problem.

Because no society develops with it youths trifling their lives away, it is high time those responsible for the proper upbringing of our children and our society started thinking straight and ahead. Our society must be devoid of immorality and wanton embrace of foreign culture. The future social fabric of the Nigerian society is fast eroding and if something is not done to nail this ill in the head, we will all have ourselves to blame. It cannot be in the interest of any nation to have more than half of its population suffering from paroxysm of immorality. It should not begin with us.

From http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101272:immorality-and-the-nigerian-society&catid=203:youth-speak&Itemid=730

• Raheem Oluwafunminiyi is a social commentator and political analyst. He wrote from Lagos

This write-up calls for food for thought

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lovethokoh: Federal roads’ ll be fixed in 2013

The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, has said that some federal roads will be fixed in 2013.

The minister said this while introducing Project Safe Passage during a meeting with Federal Government road project contractors across the country.

He said the essence of the new initiative was to ensure that by Dec.2012, Nigerians had good road corridors devoid of potholes, thus promoting safe motoring on federal roads.

The minister’s strategy for realising the Project Safe Passage requires contractors and FERMA to fix all sections of roads that had failed or had pot-holes before proceeding with the other contracts.

“In other words, Project Safe Passage would be considered as a contingency for failed sections of road alignments. Federal roads without subsisting contracts will be taken over by FERMA through its direct labour scheme for the implementation of Project Safe Passage,” the statement said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/federal-roads-ll-be-fixed-in-2013/#

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Federal roads’ ll be fixed in 2013

The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, has said that some federal roads will be fixed in 2013.

The minister said this while introducing Project Safe Passage during a meeting with Federal Government road project contractors across the country.

He said the essence of the new initiative was to ensure that by Dec.2012, Nigerians had good road corridors devoid of potholes, thus promoting safe motoring on federal roads.

The minister’s strategy for realising the Project Safe Passage requires contractors and FERMA to fix all sections of roads that had failed or had pot-holes before proceeding with the other contracts.

“In other words, Project Safe Passage would be considered as a contingency for failed sections of road alignments. Federal roads without subsisting contracts will be taken over by FERMA through its direct labour scheme for the implementation of Project Safe Passage,” the statement said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/federal-roads-ll-be-fixed-in-2013/#

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