My name is Jamal Jordan, born and raised in South Carolina, USA. My family raised me Baptist (Christian) and I was an avid, active Christian up until about a month ago when I embraced Islam. I was born down in Florida in 1995 to a family of nothing but Christians. We then moved to South … Read more
(part 1 of 2) In 1988, I began to work on a project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with my father, who was a physician working in Saudi. He was in Kingdom and I was in the United States. That same year I came on a trip to the Kingdom and stayed in the … Read more
I feel honored to be a Muslim… And I feel that way for many reasons. There are many norms in the society I live that are opposite to what it is to be Muslim. And when I first came to this way of life, I didn’t know how well I would fair with it. To … Read more
The current of life can drag you to a place you would never think of going. Our fate is not in our hands, although it would seem to be; in its very veins are traces of handprint totally in contrast to ours. I have learned this wonderful truth in my own personal laboratory called life. … Read more
My name is Troy Bagnall. I’m a 22-year-old (soon to be 23) college student at Arizona State University (ASU) from Phoenix, Arizona in the US. I’m in a film & media studies program at ASU too. I accepted Islam this past February for a multitude of reasons. I had been interested in Islam for quite … Read more
Meu nome é Troy Bagnall. Sou um estudante universitário de 22 anos (em breve, 23) na Universidade do Arizona. Sou de Phoenix, Arizona, nos EUA. Também estou no programa de estudos cinematográficos e de mídia na mesma universidade. Aceitei o Islã em fevereiro passado por uma grande quantidade de razões. Tenho nutrido um interesse pelo … Read more
My name is Frank Estrada. I was raised a Roman Catholic. I was so devout, I even hoped to one day serve in the priesthood. I accepted the churches teachings even when I didn’t agree with them. I even took every chance I got to convert people in the hopes of bringing them to Allah. … Read more
I am ethnically a Russian Jew. My quest began when I was 19 years old. I was recovering from my stint with Scientology (yes I was brainwashed into it). My belief in God was uncertain. My goals in life were to be a rock star. I was living in my Pasadena apartment and working as … Read more
I usually don’t do this. That is, I usually don’t take this much time to tell anyone how I converted to Islam, or should I say, how I came back to Islam. See, when people find out you’ve become a Muslim, you always get the same questions over and over again. How did your parents … Read more
(part 1 of 2) When I was born I was given the Hebrew name Melech Yacov. Today I still live in the area in New York where I was born. We were a semi-religious family; we belonged to a Chasidic congregation to which we went every Saturday, but we did not keep all the strict … Read more