Why are so many Women converting to

Islam?
According to "The Plain Truth", February 1984, in its 50 Year Anniversary Issue,
quoting from the "World Almanac and Book of Facts 1935" and "Reader's Digest
Almanac and Yearbook 1983", between 1934 and 1984.

Christianity increased 47%

World Population increased 136%
Islam increased 235%

100,000 people per year in America alone, are converting to Islam. For every 1
male convert to Islam, 4 females convert to Islam.
They're discovering the FACTS and not basing their decisions on biased
media. They realise they deserve to know the complete unadulterated
truth.

1. The Bible Convicts Women as the original Sinners (ie. Eve picking from the
forbidden tree){Genesis 2:4-3:24}.

The Koran Clarifies it was Adam Not Eve {Koran 7:19-25}

2. The Bible says "The Birth of a Daughter is a loss" {Ecclesiasticus 22:3}.

The Koran says both are an Equal Blessing {Koran 42:49}

3. The Bible forbids women from speaking in church {I Corinthians 14:34-35}.

The Koran says women can argue with the Prophet {58:1}

4. In the Bible, divorced Women are Labeled as an Adulteress, not men {Matthew
5:31-32}

The Koran does Not have Biblical double standards{Koran 30:21}

5. In The Bible, widows and sisters do not inherit Any property or wealth, only
men do {Numbers 27:1-11}

The Koran abolished this male greed {Koran 4:22} and God protects all.

6. The Bible Allows Multiple Wives {I Kings 11:3}

In The Koran, God limits the number to 4 only under certain situations (with the
wife's permission)and prefers you marry only one wife {Koran 4:3} The Koran
gives the woman the right to choose who to marry.

7. "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes
her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver.
He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long
as he lives" {Deuteronomy 22:28-30}

One must ask a simple question here, who is really punished, the man who raped
the woman or the woman who was raped? According to the Bible, you have to
spend the rest of your life with the man who raped you.

The Prophet Muhammad Says {Volume 9, Book 86, Number 101} Narrated by
Aisha:"It is essential to have the consent of a virgin (for the marriage)".

Would the Non-Muslim men reading this prefer the Women they know to be
Christian or Muslim?

8. The Bible also asks women to wear veils as in Islam {I Corinthians 11:3-10}

9. Women were given rights to Vote less than a 100 years ago in the (US), while
the Koran gave women voting rights almost 1,500 years ago.

Christian Scientists are declaring the Koran is from God. Click Here for stories of
Christians and atheist scientists who convert to Islam and why. The Christian
Bishops and Priests are admitting the Bible has tensions. Jesus is a Muslim? Click
here. The list goes on and on, to hear from some of these converts, including
Nuns, and many Famous people click Here. For a more Information and Statistics
click Here

This is Dedicated to Past, Present, and Future Muslim Sisters, Family and Friends,
to the Devil who prefers slander and hype over facts. Peace and Blessings upon
All.

Why British Women are turning to Islam

THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED

The Times - Tuesday, 9th November 1993 - Home-news Page

Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers
despite hostile media coverage

Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are

converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic
churches.

The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become
an important religious force in this country. "Within the next 20 years the number
of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that
brought the faith here", says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a
Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says:
"Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality
claims it as its own". Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America.

The surge in conversions to Islam has taken place despite the negative image of
the faith in the Western press. Indeed, the pace of conversions has accelerated
since publicity over the Salman Rushdie affair, the Gulf War and the plight of the
Muslims in Bosnia. It is even more ironic that most British converts should be
women, given the widespread view in the west that Islam treats women poorly.
In the United States, women converts outnumber men by four to one, and in
Britain make up the bulk of the estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 converts, forming
part of a Muslim community of 1 to 1.5 million. Many of Britains "New Muslims"
are from middle-class backgrounds. They include Matthew Wilkinson, a former
head boy of Eton who went on to Cambridge, and a son and daughter of Lord
Justice Scott, the judge heading the arms-to-Iraq enquiry.

A small scale survey by the Islamic Foundation in Leicester suggests that most
converts are aged 30 to 50. Younger muslims point to many conversions among
students and highlight the intellectual thrust of Islam. "Muhammad" said, "The
light of Islam will rise in the West" and I think that is what is happening in our
day" says Aliya Haeri, an American-born psychologist who converted 15 years
ago. She is a consultant to the Zahra Trust, a charity publishing spiritual literature
and is one of Britain's prominent Islamic speakers. She adds: "Western converts
are coming to Islam with fresh eyes, without all the habits of the East, avoiding
much of what is culturally wrong. The purest tradition is finding itself strongest in
the West."

Some say the conversions are prompted by the rise of comparative religious
education. The British media, offering what Muslims describe as a relentless bad
press on all things Islamic, is also said to have helped. Westerners despairing of
their own society - rising in crime, family breakdown, drugs and alcoholism - have
come to admire the discipline and security of Islam. Many converts are former
Christians disillusioned by the uncertainty of the church and unhappy with the
concept of the Trinity and deification of Jesus.

Quest of the Convert - Why Change?

Other converts describe a search for a religious identity. Many had previously
been practising Christians but found intellectual satisfaction in Islam. "I was a
theology student and it was the academic argument that led to my conversion."
Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher and author, said she objected to the
concept of the original sin: "Under Islam, the sins of the fathers aren't visited on
the sons. The idea that God is not always forgiving is blasphemous to Muslims.

Maimuna, 39, was raised as a High Anglican and confirmed at 15 at the peak of
her religious devotion. "I was entranced by the ritual of the High Church and
thought about taking the veil." Her crisis came when a prayer was not answered.
She slammed the door on visiting vicars but travelled to convents for discussions
with nuns. "My belief came back stronger, but not for the Church, the institution
or the dogma." She researched every Christian denomination, plus Judaism,
Buddhism and Krishna Consciousness, before turning to Islam.

Many converts from Christianity reject the ecclesiastical heirarchy emphasising

Muslims' direct relationship with God. They sense a lack of leadership in the
Church of England and are suspicious of its apparent flexibility. "Muslims don't
keep shifting their goal-posts ," says Huda Khattab, 28, author of The Muslim
Woman's Handbook, published this year by Ta-Ha. She converted ten years ago
while studying Arabic at university. "Christianity changes, like the way some have
said pre-marital se is okay if its with the person you're going to marry. It seems
so wishy-washy. Islam was constant about sex, about praying five times a day.
The prayer makes you conscious of God all the time. You're continually touching
base.

Why So Many Women Around the World are

Converting To Islam!
Description: An article published in The Times about the rise of Islam in the UK,
and why most of those who convert are women.

By The Times - Published on 11 Jun 2007 - Last modified on 25 Jun 2007

The Spread of a World Creed

Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite
hostile media coverage.

Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are

converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic
churches.

The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become
an important religious force in this country. “Within the next 20 years the number
of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that
brought the faith here”, says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a
Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says:
“Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality
claims it as its own”. Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America.

The surge in conversions to Islam has taken place despite the negative image of
the faith in the Western press. Indeed, the pace of conversions has accelerated
since publicity over the Salman Rushdie affair, the Gulf War and the plight of the
Muslims in Bosnia. It is even more ironic that most British converts should be
women, given the widespread view in the west that Islam treats women poorly.
In the United States, women converts outnumber men by four to one, and in
Britain make up the bulk of the estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 converts, forming
part of a Muslim community of 1 to 1.5 million. Many of Britains “New Muslims”
are from middle-class backgrounds. They include Matthew Wilkinson, a former
head boy of Eton who went on to Cambridge, and a son and daughter of Lord
Justice Scott, the judge heading the arms-to-Iraq enquiry.

A small scale survey by the Islamic Foundation in Leicester suggests that most
converts are aged 30 to 50. Younger Muslims point to many conversions among
students and highlight the intellectual thrust of Islam and I think that is what is
happening in our day” says Aliya Haeri, an American-born psychologist who
converted 15 years ago. She is a consultant to the Zahra Trust, a charity
publishing spiritual literature and is one of Britain’s prominent Islamic speakers.
She adds: “Western converts are coming to Islam with fresh eyes, without all the
habits of the East, avoiding much of what is culturally wrong. The purest tradition
is finding itself strongest in the West.”

Some say the conversions are prompted by the rise of comparative religious
education. The British media, offering what Muslims describe as a relentless bad
press on all things Islamic, is also said to have helped. Westerners despairing of
their own society - rising in crime, family breakdown, drugs and alcoholism - have
come to admire the discipline and security of Islam. Many converts are former
Christians disillusioned by the uncertainty of the church and unhappy with the
concept of the Trinity and deification of Jesus.

Quest of the Convert - Why Change?

Other converts describe a search for a religious identity. Many had previously
been practising Christians but found intellectual satisfaction in Islam. “I was a
theology student and it was the academic argument that led to my
conversion.”Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher and author, said she
objected to the concept of the original sin: “Under Islam, the sins of the fathers
aren’t visited on the sons. The idea that God is not always forgiving is
blasphemous to Muslims.

Maimuna, 39, was raised as a High Anglican and confirmed at 15 at the peak of
her religious devotion. “I was entranced by the ritual of the High Church and
thought about taking the veil.”Her crisis came when a prayer was not answered.
She slammed the door on visiting vicars but travelled to convents for discussions
with nuns. “My belief came back stronger, but not for the Church, the institution
or the dogma.” She researched every Christian denomination, plus Judaism,
Buddhism and Krishna Consciousness, before turning to Islam.

Many converts from Christianity reject the ecclesiastical heirarchy emphasising

Muslims’ direct relationship with God. They sense a lack of leadership in the
Church of England and are suspicious of its apparent flexibility. “Muslims don’t
keep shifting their goal-posts ,” says Huda Khattab, 28, author of The Muslim
Woman’s Handbook, published this year by Ta-Ha. She converted ten years ago
while studying Arabic at university. “Christianity changes, like the way some have
said pre-marital sex is okay if its with the person you’re going to marry. It seems
so wishy-washy. Islam was constant about sex, about praying five times a day.
The prayer makes you conscious of God all the time. You’re continually touching
base.

Why Are Women Turning to Islam

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:27:59 −0700 (PDT)•

At a time when Islam is faced with hostile media coverage particularlywhere the
status of women in Islam is concerned, it may be quitesurprising to learn that
Islam is the fastest growing religion in theworld, and even more ironic to discover
that the majority of convertsto Islam are WOMEN .

The status of women in society is neither a new issue, nor is it afully settled one.
And where Islam is mentioned, for many the term 'Muslim Women' prompts
images of exhausted mothers chained to thestove, 'victims' suppressed in a life
of indoctrination, frantic to bewesternized and so on. Others will go to great
lengths to explain howthe hijaab is an obstacle, clouding the mind, and comment
that femaleconverts are either brainwashed, stupid or traitors to their sex. Ireject
such accusations and pose to them the following question: why is it that so many
women who have been born and brought in the socalled 'civilized' societies of
Europe and America are willing toreject their 'liberty' and 'independence' to
embrace a religion thatsupposedly oppresses them and is widely assumed to be
prejudicial tothem?
As a Christian convert to Islam, I can only present my personalexperience and
reasons for rejecting the 'freedom' that women claim tohave in this society in
favour of the only Religion that trulyliberates women by giving us a status and
position, which iscompletely unique when compared with that of our
non−Muslimcounterparts. Before coming to Islam, I had strong feminist
tendenciesand recognized that where a woman was concerned, a lot of
shufflingaround had been going on, yet without being able to pin her on thesocial
map. The problem was ongoing: new 'women's issues' being raisedwithout the
previous ones being satisfactorily resolved. Like the manywomen who shared my
background, I wouldaccuse Islam of being a sexist religion, discriminating,
oppressingand giving men the greater privileges. All of this, coming from aperson
who did not even know Islam, one who had been blinded due toignorance and
had accepted this deliberately distorted definition ofIslam.However, despite my
criticisms of Islam, inwardly, I wasn't satisfied

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Video Clips of Women Around the world finding Islam

Latino women finding a place in Islam

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9352969/

Why European women are turning to Islam

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.html

Very interesting video clips

Japanese women turning to Islam

http://www.biharanjuman.org/Reverts/Japa...-ISLAM.htm

Dutch Women Turning To ISLAM In Holland

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/dutch-wome...nd/6631036

Many German Women Turning To ISLAM

http://www.truveo.com/Many-German-Women-...1548962256