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From the Watchtower to the Minaret
Jamaat Net ^ | 1995 | Raphael Narbaez, Jr.

Posted on 03/30/2003 10:28:01 PM PST by Salman

A forty-two-year-old Latino, Raphael is a Los Anodes-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas, where he attended his first Jehovah's Witness meeting at age six, gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States. But he traded in his Bible for a Qur'an after having braved a visit to a local mosque.

On November 1, 1991, he embraced Islam, bringing to the Muslim community the organizational and speaking skills he developed among Jehovah's Witnesses. He speaks with the urgency of a new convert, but one who can make immigrant Muslims laugh at themselves.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: islam; watchtower
Taken from the book
American Jihad: Islam after Malcolm X
Steven Barboza, 1995
1 posted on 03/30/2003 10:28:01 PM PST by Salman
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To: Salman
From the Watchtower to the Minaret

He sounds like one confused dude.

2 posted on 03/30/2003 10:31:32 PM PST by Mark17
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