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The exact quote search may be amusing to you or indicative of just how much somebody is promoting the idea of celebs becoming Muslims, but it doesn't really make for a fair comparison.

Actually it makes exactly the comparison I was looking for, which related to how much the US media was reporting on stories like this when a celebrity converts to Islam, whereas if one of them converts to Christianity, than that doesn't somehow does not seem to be as newsworthy - that was sort of the whole point of my original post.

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I'll grant that you got the results that you got and that searching without quotes does bring up some videos of celebrities who converted from Christianity to other religions, but the fact that some guy put the tagline "Look at the world's celebrities, who converted to Islam" all over the Internet doesn't exactly mean that the US media is reporting a lot of stories about celebs who have converted to Islam.

Most of these videos were put online by amateurs. I assume many or most of them were created by amateurs. Some of the information they contain is indeed bogus (Liam Neeson becoming a Muslim, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Angela Merkel converting to Islam, for example). While it's indeed not treated as a big story when a celebrity returns to Christianity or embraces it for the first time, I don't really see big media in the US making much of a sensation over Hollywood converts to Islam. That was one of the points I was trying to make.