High-Profile Converts to Christianity from Islam

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

1. Dr Mustafa( Now Mark Gabriel) Former Muslim Cleric, Ex-Professor in Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt(Most prestigious Islamic school of theology )

Ex-Muslim Scholar's Book Refutes Islam

( CHARISMA) -- A former leading Muslim scholar has written a book refuting the idea that Islam is a peaceful religion, despite fears for his life.

While many people have been arguing that those behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks do not represent true Islam, Mark Gabriel has been putting the finishing touches to a study that analyzes Muslim history and looks at what he says are the roots of violence in the Quran.

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

2. Dr. Muhammed Rahoumy(now Dr. Samuel Paul) - former Dean in Al Azhar Islamic University in Cairo Egypt.

He was the Dean of Al Azhar Islamic University in Cairo Egypt. For those of you who haven’t heard of Al Azhar, it is the oldest and most prestigious Islamic school of theology and mosque in the world.

Dr. Muhammed Rahoumy (now Dr. Samuel Paul) left Islam in 2000, and now lives in the USA. He has written a book about his experience and why he left Islam in a great book entitled “The Unknown God”. This book started a huge commotion in the Middle East considering that the person who wrote it is such a high ranking muslim official. The book was only published in the Arabic language.

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

3. Rev KK Alavi - Son of a staunch Islamic cleric, India - The preacher Muslim extremists love to hate

Thiruvananthapuram – Manjeri in Kerala is a predominantly Muslim town and a popular Islamic pilgrimage spot. In this town, the name of The Rev. K.K. Alavi, the son of a devout Islamic cleric, sends shivers to the conservative Muslims.

Called “one of the bravest Christians in India,” Rev. Alavi has been receiving numerous death threats from Muslim fundamentalists, ever since he accepted Christ at the age of 21.

According to news sources, Muslim clerics, in their prayer meetings, mention his name as an enemy of Islam and even killers were hired by Islamic extremist groups to snuff out his life. Besides vilifying the pastor in Muslim conferences, newsletters and newspapers, Islamic outfits have also circulated audio cassettes in India and the Middle East maligning Rev. Alavi and his Christian mission. Many have also falsely filed court cases against him, charging him with crimes ranging from cheating to arms smuggling and rape.

However, undeterred, the 53-year old Rev. Alavi continues to do what he does best – preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Besides having written more than 20 books and tracts calling upon Muslims to understand the true essence of the teachings of Jesus, Rev. Alavi also oversees a literature program of tracts, booklets and study aides examining Islamic viewpoints on Christianity.

“Last month, a few reporters came to me warning that killers were out to take me down,”Compass Direct quoted Rev. Alavi as saying. “All my life I have had threats from fundamentalists. So I wasn’t surprised to hear this from reporters who were tipped off by a source with a radical Indian Islamic group.”

Police officials and intelligence agencies have also confirmed that certain Islamic groups are out to kill him, Compass Direct reported.

Though the Kerala High Court has sanctioned police protection for him, Rev. Alavi, who pastors an independent Lutheran church, New Hope India Mission, has shrugged aside the offer. “I can claim security from police wherever I go, but I believe if I do that I’ll lose the protection of my guardian angels,” he said. “So I’ve declined man’s support and have turned to God’s care and protection. Who can kill me if God’s with me?”

According to Rev. Alavi, the attempts on his life were made as early as 1981 when a Muslim mob attacked his house with machetes. “I ran all the way to the police station. Later I took refuge at the home of a Hindu attorney,” he recalled. In another instance, an unidentified gunman shot at his house, leaving marks on the wall that are still visible today. Even in the church he is not safe. “Once while I was speaking in a church, a man pointed a gun at me…but he had to flee when a Lutheran sister tried to talk to him,” he recalled.

“My family was shaken, but I knew the Lord would protect me,” he said.

Rev. Alavi still receives many threatening letters from militant organizations such as Tiger Force and the Islamic Front. His church has been attacked several times and the Cross destroyed.

“Now, sources have alerted me that I’m on the hit list prepared by the Muslim fundamentalist National Development Front,” he said.

Why? Because “I happened to be the first Muslim in a Muslim town who still converts Muslims in modern times,” he said. “They saw clearly that I’m a sort of a bridge for many to walk to Jesus. They could never stand the idea. Hence I happen to be their foremost enemy.”

Such are the ordeals of a pastor whose widely published testimony has inspired hundreds of Indian Muslims to turn to the path of Jesus. His life story, published in a booklet titled An End of a Search, is translated into 32 languages and circulated in many cities in southern India.
Source : http://in.christiantoday.com/news/soc_238.htm

His Testimony : http://www.the-good-way.com/eng/article/a16.htm

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

4. Walid Shoebat - A Former PLO Islamic Terrorist

Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.

Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho.

As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.

After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.

In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.

Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.

Walid has written several online books including "Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed" and "Israel, And The World's Mock Trial”,

where he exposes anti-Semitism and the hatred of Jews in both the Islamic Christian and secular worlds.

Walid is an American citizen and lives in the USA with his wife and children, under this assumed name.

His Testimony : http://www.ttwministries.com/media/Walid%20Shoebat.mp3

His Website : http://www.shoebat.com/
His Books : http://www.shoebat.com/books.php

More to come...

Goku · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 4449 Location: England, UK

I guess the fools dont know that Christians are converting to the Religion they left, and of the extreme terrorrism and peadophilia in the bible.

Samuel 15: 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy [a] everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. ”

Joshua 6:21 They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

"Now kill all the boys [innocent kids]. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. (Numbers 31:17- 18 )"

Hosea 13:16 (New Living Translation) - The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords."

Hosea 13:16 (King James) Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity.
Her children were also dashed to pieces
at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains.

Psalms 137:8

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.

Psalms 137:9

Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.

http://www.answering-christianity.com/karim/pregnant_women_ripped_open.htm

http://www.answering-christianity.com/jihad_in_bible.htm

http://www.answering-christianity.com/islam_and_terrorism.htm

Do these fools expect even moderate Muslims to leave Islam and embrace a corrupted religion?
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Allow the president to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure, Abraham Lincoln.

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

5. Rev. Khalid Soomro - Pakistani ex-Muslim

Pakistan: Ex-Muslim Christian cleric's house burned, life threatened

Karachi. A famous Scholar and Vatican decorated Pakistani Christian Rev. Khalid Soomro who engaged himself in volunteer services to [manage] PCP(Pakistan Christian Post) Karachi Bureau office is not safe in Pakistan. Muslim extremist group set his house on fire on July 27 [but he and his family survived]. The family members of Mr. Soomro informed PCP about threatening e-mails and calls to Mr. KM Soomro, which have pushed him to hidings in Pakistan.

chingachgook · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

Always_Kafir,

They don't call ya Always_Kafir fer nothin' do they?

Thanks! Want some of Ming's

milk?

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When Muslims DON'T follow Islam they are holy. When Christians DON'T follow Christ's they are not holy (chingachgook)

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Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

Goku · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 4449 Location: England, UK

Look, the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
Jn. 1:2

I guess the lamb forgot to take away the brutal sins that came after him, and even infesting todays world right before our eyes.

Believe in Chrsitianity? You'd be better off believing in the tooth fairy.
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Allow the president to invade a neighbouring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure, Abraham Lincoln.

tranquility · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 65

yaaawwnn...great stories man, got anymore?

we can spend all our life time here posting convert stories from islam to christanity and vice versa. but i rather not. infact its none of my business.

if you converted from anything to another, keep it to yourself, but no they go further than that, they write books, yes because they sell many books to those misguided that buy them and make the author rich ;]

but lets say for a second and i could be wrong here, if one truely belived in god, and they converted, then why go public? because god is always watching thee right? so its between the indiviual and god, no one needs to know. but of course i could be wrong again by saying conversion especially of someone of high status converts it has to be made public,
as that person forsees the profit he could make from interviews, selling books, sponsorship etc etc.

as we all already know and not to be patronising, religion as with anything can easily be exploited and turned into a gold mine.
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i WILL break bread equally between a fellow muslim and a non muslim in the moment of hunger, for we are all creations of god and must treat each other equally.

Sceptic · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject:

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

7. Rev. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo - Pakistani, International Director of UK-based Barnabas Fund.

The Rev. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo is the international director of the Barnabas Fund based in England. The Fund is a ministry which assists Christian minorities in the Islamic world and in other areas where Christians undergo persecution. Dr. Sookhdeo was recently in the United States where he spoke with David W. Virtue of VirtueOnline. Dr. Sookhdeo is a leading world authority on Islam, author of several books on Islam including "Understanding Islamic Terrorism" and "A Christian's Pocket Guide to Islam". Born in Pakistan of Islamic parentage he converted to Christianity while a student in London in the early 60s.

http://www.aina.org/news/20051219134054.htm

His interview : http://www.reality.org.nz/articles/48/48-sookhdeo.asp

His books :
www.amazon.com

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

8. El-Faqi, an ex-Imam and lawyer

Sudan: Ex-Imam starts 'jail churches'

El-Faqi, an ex-Imam and lawyer, was imprisoned in March 1998 following his conversion to Christianity. He is slowly becoming a problem for the Islamic government: many people have become Christians as a result of his testimony, and the government don't know what to do with him. The 'Christian Imam' has been transferred from one jail to another, but every time, the same thing happened: he told his fellow prisoners about Jesus, and has started 'jail churches' in all of the prisons he has been in, according to a recent report.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1999/dawn9912.html#Sudan

Always_Kafir · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2530

9. Taysir Abu Saada "Tass" - Islamic Fatah fighter trained to kill Jews.

Taysir Abu Saada ("Tass") was a Fatah fighter trained to kill Jews. His hatred was so strong he dreamed of poisoning Jews who frequented the restaurant where he worked. He was born without a homeland in the Gaza Strip, in 1951. His parents immigrated to Saudi Arabia where he was raised as a Muslim. Tass hated Jews, and the fact of Israel's existence. After the ’67 war with Israel, Tass joined the “Fatah Forces” (PLO under Yasser Arafat). In Fatah, Tass was trained as a sniper to kill Jews. He also trained children to fight and kill Jews.

In 1974, Tass came to the United States. He married an American girl (Karen) and worked in the restaurant and hotel industries, where he became successful and reached executive positions. Tass became an American citizen in 1979. Through a supernatural encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ in 1993, Tass became a “born again” believer. Tass and Karen now devote their lives to taking the message of Jesus to the people Tass hated the most (the Jews) and to the brethren he was willing to die for (the Muslims).

“When I invited Christ into my heart, God put in my heart a burden to
pray—for the Jews first, and then for the Muslims,” says Tass. “God gave me a genuine love for them. After that time, in all my interactions with Jews, I showed love to them. It was amazing grace! I realized I didn't hate these people anymore. God is at work in my life! I don't understand what happened, but hatred had been cleansed by a Jew, Jesus Christ. Nothing on earth can cleanse the heart of a Palestinian toward a Jew. Only Christ's grace can do that.”

Since 1997, Tass and Karen have made their home in Bethel, Missouri, where they are part of the Heartland community, bringing the hope of Christ to the hurting. They have two grown children, Benali and Farah, who are both serving the Lord.

www.hopeforishmael.org

His testimony : http://www.biblenetworknews.com/northamerica/041602_usa.html
(Audio in the same page)
http://www.hopeforishmael.org/testimonies_tass.html