Woman who lost 8 relatives on 9/11 embraces Islam

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Woman who lost 8 relatives on 9/11 embraces Islam


By Our Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Sept 11: An American woman who lost eight relatives in the 9/11 attacks has embraced Islam. Elizabeth, now Safia Al Kasaby, 43, lives in Tampa, Florida. She is a former sergeant first class of the US Air Force National Guard. She lost one uncle and seven cousins in the attacks on the World Trade Center.


Her grandfather was a Jew and her grandmother was Catholic.


Safia said that in 1997, nearly destitute, she approached a synagogue in North Tampa for help. Officials at the shul wanted to know if she was a member. She was not. They asked her if she was really Jewish. She became disillusioned and for eight years she did not participate in organised religion.


She found Islam in 2005 on the third day of a Moroccan vacation.


At first, Safia’s family didn’t take her seriously and some colleagues at her banking job made fun of her new attire. She dared not pray at work.


Mostly, Safia kept her new faith at home, learning about her religion on web sites and Islamic chat rooms.


After a meeting with an imam at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area in June, Safia felt more at ease with her new faith. But some in her family are reluctant to accept her new faith. Her eldest daughter, Sylvia, wants little to do with her. A Baptist and young military widow, Sylvia berated Safia when she showed up at her husband’s funeral wearing a hijab.


At home, Safia raises two daughters. Ten-year-old Natalia says her mother’s religion is cool.


Ada, 18, appreciates Safia’s transformation and doesn’t put up with people who make fun of Islam or stereotype Muslims. “I say, ‘Wait a minute. My mom’s a Muslim,’” Ada said. “She’s not a terrorist.”


Safia says she looks forward to the day when her religion is not an issue.


http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/12/top13.htm

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and???


over 5000 people who lost friends and family during 9/11 didnt, what is your point?


In Africa Alone Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Leave Islam


By Ali Sina


Hitler said if a lie is repeated often enough and long enough, it would come to be perceived as truth. One such lie often repeated is “Islam is the fastest growing religion”.


Despite the fact that Muslims by virtue of being poor and uneducated are much more reproductive than others, Islam as a religion is not growing but dying fast.


More and more Muslims are discovering that the violence evinced by some of their coreligionists is not an aberration but is inspired by the teachings of the Quran and the examples set by its author. Muslims are becoming disillusioned with Islam. They find out that the mechanistic ritual of praying five times per day, reciting verses that they do not understand and indeed mean nothing, getting up at taxing hours of the morning and abstaining from food and water until the sunset are not means to becoming more spiritual but are instruments to control their mind. These enlightened Muslims no more heed to the fear mongering verses of the Quran that threaten to burn them and roast them in the fires of hell if they dare to think and question the validity of that book.


Every day thousands of Muslim intellectuals are leaving Islam. They find Islam inconsistent with science, logics, human rights and ethics. Millions of Iranians already have left Islam. The enlightened Muslims of other nationalities are not far behind. This is the beginning of a mass exodus from Islam. It is a movement that is already in motion and nothing can stop it.


However the exodus from Islam is not reserved to the intellectuals but also the average Muslims are finding that Islam is not the way to God but to ignorance, poverty and wars. They are leaving Islam to embrace other religions especially the Christianity.


Perhaps it is best to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani أحمد القطعاني An important Islamic cleric who said: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."


What Muslims say among each other, is not the same thing that they say for the consumption of the Westerners.


These are huge numbers. If this trend continues we can expect to see Islam become insignificant in Africa in just a few decades. This is good news for those who are concerned about the on going slavery in Africa and the prospects of war and genocide.


In fact with the weakening of Islam, we can hope to see peace in many war-ridden parts of the world including Palestine. By now it should be clear that any road map to peace between Israel and Palestine will be blocked by the Islamists and the terrorists. Peace in Middle East is not possible as long as Islam is the ideology of the masses.


It is important that we realize that this terrorism that is threatening the peace of the world and these wars that bleed the Muslim nations are not economically motivated but are they are hate motivated. They are religious wars. The weakening of Islam means peace for mankind.


Al Qataani and al Jazeera Network were alarmed by these huge numbers of Muslims leaving Islam, but humanity must rejoice over these numbers. The weakening of Islam means the triumph of mankind.

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very contrasting styles of writing


Shaunee's Post - informative


Teh - demeaning and disrespectfull toward islam

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Ada, 18, appreciates Safia’s transformation and doesn’t put up with people who make fun of Islam or stereotype Muslims. “I say, ‘Wait a minute. My mom’s a Muslim,’” Ada said. “She’s not a terrorist.”
Safia says she looks forward to the day when her religion is not an issue.

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Safia says she looks forward to the day when her religion is not an issue.

How naïve. How dishonest. Her religion <i> is </i> the issue when her religious beliefs engender such hatred toward others.


Let go of fear make a stand before God responsible for your own actions, take responsibility and start thinking for yourselves. Go back to first principles of right and wrong. Take an objective look at all the world of mankind and why your beliefs are so hateful toward most of it. It’s clearly delineated in your holy book regarding calls for jihad against the infidel. Moslems have also to come to grips with the fact that their religious views are a wellspring of divisiveness and hatred. Any belief system that has as one of its core principles the slavery of those who don’t believe as you do will have precisely such an effect.

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very contrasting styles of writing


Shaunee's Post - informative


Teh - demeaning and disrespectfull toward islam

tut tut ur islamic blinders are showing... would it interest you that a fellow Muslim wrote that article?


oh shock horror ! :o

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Her grandfather was a Jew and her grandmother was Catholic.
Safia said that in 1997, nearly destitute, she approached a synagogue in North Tampa for help. Officials at the shul wanted to know if she was a member. She was not. They asked her if she was really Jewish. She became disillusioned and for eight years she did not participate in organised religion.

what a shame. Islam never turns ANYONE away. Islam is for everyone, not a certain blood lineage. Even if you have not been practicing the religion.. the door is always open.

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Perhaps it is best to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani أحمد القطعاني An important Islamic cleric who said: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."


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Bismillah:

would it interest you that a fellow Muslim wrote that article?

No no... don't lie. Ali Sina is not our fellow Muslim. he claim that he once was a Muslim, and right now he is just <b>an Atheist</b>, so shame on you to use such source to prove your point while you are a man of God.

Perhaps it is best to listen to the truth coming from the mouth of the horse. The Internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Ahmad Al Qataani أحمد القطعاني An important Islamic cleric who said: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity."

Despite all what you have said, <b>Islam still is the fastest growing religion in the world. </b> :mashaallah:


Salam


Wael.

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semantics once again...


if you wernt so blind you would have realised that the information was gathered bty a muslim.