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I'm a feminist, and I converted to Islam
CNN ^ | 10/14/2014 | Theresa Corbin

Posted on 10/15/2014 1:44:17 PM PDT by Bettyprob

I am a Muslim, but I wasn't always. I converted to Islam in November 2001, two months after 9/11.

I was 21 and living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was a bad time to be a Muslim. But after four years of studying, poking and prodding at world religions and their adherents, I decided to take the plunge.

I am the product of a Creole Catholic and an Irish atheist. I grew up Catholic, then was agnostic, now I'm Muslim.

My journey to Islam began when I was about 15 years old in Mass and had questions about my faith. The answers from teachers and clergymen -- don't worry your pretty little head about it -- didn't satisfy me.

So I did what any red-blooded American would do: the opposite. I worried about it. For many years. I questioned the nature of religion, man and the universe.

After questioning everything I was taught to be true and digging through rhetoric, history and dogma, I found out about this strange thing called Islam. I learned that Islam is neither a culture nor a cult, nor could it be represented by one part of the world. I came to realize Islam is a world religion that teaches tolerance, justice and honor and promotes patience, modesty and balance.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Louisiana
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To: Bettyprob

Nothing here to show/prove she has read/studied the Koran.


121 posted on 10/15/2014 4:30:18 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Bettyprob

Let the wench go over to the ME and be a wife to one of her “good muslim” men. She’ll change her tune real quick.


122 posted on 10/15/2014 5:13:04 PM PDT by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: RetiredArmy

I’ve said this before on other posts, demonic spirits are territorial and extremely difficult to uproot once they become established,

America was attacked on 9/11 and soon after the people elected a sympathetic sunni worshiper of that same demonic beast and began to openly embrace and seek out additional knowledge of it, allowing it greater influence here, this is how malevolent evil spirits work behind the scenes, principalities and powers, this is how they increase their authority over entire peoples and nations, its counter-intuitive to how we would suppose it to be,

God told Joshua to destroy certain cities/villages after he came into the land to claim ownership, today those same locations where he did not complete Gods directive still cause Israel trouble and strife, Gaza and the Golan Heights,


123 posted on 10/15/2014 5:57:09 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: SIRTRIS; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; ...
75% of the converts to Islam leave it after 2 yrs.

And U.S. prisons becoming Islam battleground-(% of Muslims in US prisons higher than general population)

Research shows,

According to research carried out by the respected Pakistani-born American Muslim Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus (1932 - 2007), 75% of New Muslim Converts in the US leave Islam within a few years. Listen to the clip detailing this research (listen on Youtube)

"The number of ethnic Muslims in Russia who adopted Christianity is 2 million, while the number of the Orthodox who have been converted to Islam is only 2,5 thousand...The proportion of Muslims in North Ossetia has decreased at least by 30%, while in Beslan itself, where Muslims had comprised from 30 to 40% of the population, their number has decreased at least by half."
Roman Silantyev: executive secretary of the Inter-religious Council in Russia
"Islam used to represent, as you previously mentioned, Africa's main religion and there were 30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script. The number of Muslims in Africa [a land of 1 billion] has diminished to 316 million, half of whom are Arabs in North Africa...In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. These numbers are very large indeed".
Shaykh Ahmed Katani
The number of Muslim-born converts to Christianity in Egypt, who are keeping their faith secret, has reached several million. Due to the State Security's persecution, torture and rape, they have established outside Egypt an organization called "Freed by Christ" as well as "Way TV" to speak on their behalf to the West, and expose their sufferings at the hands of State Security. It is headed by the Christian convert Dr. Mohamad Rahouna, ex-dean of the Faculty of Arabic Studies, Minya University, who fled to the United States.
"The percentage of Muslims declined from 84 percent of the total population in 2001 to 79.3 percent in 2004. In terms of figures...some 100,000 Muslims, of the country's five million population, have converted to Christianity."
Omurzak Mamayusupov: the director of Kyrgyzstan's religious affairs committee
"According to A.T. Willis and others between 2 or 3 million Muslims converted to Christianity after the massacres of the communists in Indonesia, in 1965"
"We have churches that have grown 802%. Many converts have come from Islam with no Christian heritage, no Christian background, no resources whatsoever, no training. But they just believe in God and His Word...In every village and every town there are Christians, and there are churches,..In one town, actually there are more churches than mosques, which is a big miracle to happen in the Middle East...I know of many, many churches today who baptize about 120 to 150 every year. I have never been to a church in the west or anywhere in the world where the church is already packed 2 1/2 hours before the meeting." That's happening in Algeria.
Pastor Youssef Jacob with Operation Mobilization

World Muslim population doubling, report projects By Richard Allen Greene, CNN

Twenty years ago, the world had about 1.1 billion Muslims. Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they'll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday.

That's a rise from less than 20 percent in 1990.

Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as home of the largest number of Muslims, as its population pushes over 256 million, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life projects.

The number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, to 6.2 million, it anticipates.

Afghanistan's population will nearly double, to about 50.5 million, making it home to the ninth largest Muslim population in the world.

Israel will become nearly a quarter Muslim. The Palestinian territories have one of the highest growth rates in the world.

Fractious Nigeria, where Christian-Muslim violence has left thousands dead in the past decade, will become a Muslim-majority country by 2030, the Pew Forum projects.

And two western European countries - France and Belgium - will become more than 10 percent Muslim. Sweden will hover just below that level, at 9.9 percent.

Iran, on the other hand, will see very slow growth. Iranian women have among the fewest children of anyone in the Muslim world. They use birth control at exactly the same rate as American women, 73 percent.

Conversion will play relatively little part in the increase, the report anticipates. It says little data is available on conversion, but what little there is suggests Islam loses as many adherents via conversion as it gains.

Pakistan's rapid growth - adding an estimated 70 million people in 20  years - could create "a potentially lethal cocktail,"  said Ghaffar Hussain of  the Quilliam Foundation, which calls itself and anti-extremism think tank and  does work in Pakistan.

"Pakistan is an unstable country, there are literally hundreds of  jihadist groups," he said.

Despite the rapid growth of Islam, Christianity seems set to remain the biggest religion in the world for the next 20 years. There are currently more than 2 billion Christians - 30 to 35 percent of the global population - making it very unlikely that there will be fewer than 2.2 billion Christians in 2030. - http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/27/world-muslim-population-doubling-report-projects/?hpt=C1&date=2011-04-16

MUHAMMAD VERSUS JESUS CHRIST

124 posted on 10/15/2014 6:19:33 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Bettyprob

Still rebelling against mommy and daddy..


125 posted on 10/15/2014 6:21:59 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: daniel1212

Excellent data. Thanks for all the work.


126 posted on 10/15/2014 6:45:32 PM PDT by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: defconw

Though she’s obviously not very bright, I suspect her biggest obstacle is that she really doesn’t want to know. She’s content with her ignorane and stupidity. Proud of it even.


127 posted on 10/15/2014 6:55:50 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Jesus never condoned sin ~ Þ)
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To: Clintonfatigued; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; NFHale

Boy, she’s taking her rape fantasy pretty far.


128 posted on 10/15/2014 10:16:28 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Ezekiel

Converted 2 mos after 9/11...right. No marred thought process here.


129 posted on 10/15/2014 10:55:51 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: MrB
She’s only sympathetic towards Islam for the very same reason she was/is a “feminist” - rebellion to God’s Law.

B-I-N-G-O

130 posted on 10/16/2014 4:21:22 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Guns are not the problem. People are. Forget the magazine...check your attitude.)
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To: Impy; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; NFHale; KC_Lion

I believe I PM’d you all the article about marriage rates plummeting; this is also addressed.

Strip away the Judeo-Christian fundamentals and that vacuum is filled by the death cult. Pretty simple to figure out - basic physics at work.

Congrats Western Civilization - you’ve committed suicide.


131 posted on 10/16/2014 6:31:11 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: redleghunter

Islam feeds off institutionalized or compromised faith and or the lack of a transcendent coherent morality and structure, both of which the West examples. Glorying in “Christian freedom” to be like the world in liberal attitudes, from revealing clothing to worldly music to amusement-park attractions, only fosters a superficial spirituality and provides ammunition for cults and Islam to justify themselves by.

The devil knows the Bible and uses God’s principles in building his tower of Babel.


132 posted on 10/16/2014 6:45:19 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: x

Then you didn’t use quotes for an exact phrase search. Searches without quotes have little relevance. For example, if you search for ... I hate Obama ... without quotes, then you will get results from pages where someone wrote “I love Obama and I hate Bush” because all of the search terms are still present, just not in the order that you entered them.


133 posted on 10/16/2014 6:55:58 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: dfwgator

They’re from Austria, they were raised Catholic!!!


134 posted on 10/16/2014 7:01:19 AM PDT by ontap
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; KC_Lion
RE:”I believe I PM’d you all the article about marriage rates plummeting; this is also addressed.
Strip away the Judeo-Christian fundamentals and that vacuum is filled by the death cult. Pretty simple to figure out - basic physics at work.
Congrats Western Civilization - you’ve committed suicide.”

The traditional two op-sex parent families here are the immigrants from India, China, Korea.

The American women, blacks, Hispanics even whites seem to be gravitating to the single mom parent model family, or not having kids at all, the last especially in the case of whites.

135 posted on 10/16/2014 7:05:08 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Bettyprob

What a stupid woman. I have no pity for her at all.


136 posted on 10/16/2014 8:03:58 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: captmar-vell

No arguments from me. You see where the twin towers fell they have approved and built a satanic building called a muslin mosque.


137 posted on 10/16/2014 9:37:44 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Jonty30

Really?

Where is the near universal condemnation of the radical brand of Islam from the ROP majority of Islam?

The sound you hear, if any, is akin to crickets.


138 posted on 10/16/2014 9:38:55 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: sickoflibs; GOPsterinMA; Impy; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; KC_Lion

” The American women, blacks, Hispanics even whites seem to be gravitating to the single mom parent model family, or not having kids at all, the last especially in the case of whites. “

Sounds like suicide to me.


139 posted on 10/16/2014 9:40:08 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: cyn
She was not going to allow reality to get in the way. I do wonder how she can process everything else that is done in the name of islam. Gotta be a full 24/7 cognitive dissonance going on, no light (truth) allowed into the abyss of her brain ever.

Those get-ups the females wear... forget the male gaze, they are assuming a non-existent attractiveness for themselves anyway. More likely the trash bag sack serves to block out truth and knowledge... an excuse to be dumb, ignorant, and fully dependent on "men". That's the true essence of the left's feminism (a complete lie, IOW).

After all, if the lefty feminists in the West were truly independent and free spirits, why do they make endless demands for the government sugar daddy to give them stuff? "NAGs" is right!

140 posted on 10/16/2014 10:35:02 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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