Europeans Increasingly Converting to Islam

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This is an older message, but it fits our times! Excerpts from… Europeans Increasingly Converting to Islam by Soeren Kern  – January 27, 2012 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2790/europeans-converting-to-islam

“…my God, I trust in You!&quot Psalm. 25:1

Irish actor Liam Neeson says he is thinking about becoming a Muslim
after undergoing a spiritual awakening in Turkey….

In Britain, the number of Muslim converts recently passed the
100,000 mark, according to a survey conducted by an inter-faith group
called

Faith Matters. The survey revealed that nearly two thirds of the
converts were women, more than 70% were white and the average age at
conversion was just 27….

More than one in four acknowledged there was a “natural conflict”
between being a devout Muslim and living in Britain. Nine out of ten
women converts said their change of religion had led to them dressing
more conservatively. More than half started wearing a head scarf and 5%
had worn the burka.

Separately, government authorities revealed that an increasing number
of

inmates at British prisons are converting to Islam. For example,
one-third of the inmates at one of Britain’s most notorious youth jails
are Muslims and the religion is attracting a large number of converts.

There are 229 Muslims out of a total of 686 youngsters detained at
Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in West London, according to
Ministry of Justice figures. There are now so many worshippers at Friday
prayers that they have to be split between Feltham’s mosque and its gym.

Prison insiders say most non-Muslims are locked up during Friday
prayers because so many guards are needed to monitor the lunchtime
service. As a consequence, many disillusioned youngsters are becoming
attracted to Islam by the prospect of getting better food and superior
treatment at the prison.

One of the more prominent Britons to convert to Islam is

Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair. Booth, who converted after feeling a “shot of spiritual morphine”
on a trip to Iran, now wears a hijab head covering whenever she leaves
her home and prays five times a day.

In France, an estimated 70,000 French citizens have
converted to Islam in recent years, according to a report by

France 3 public television. As in Britain, the majority of converts
to Islam in France are young women who say they are disenchanted with
materialism.

Conversions to Islam are also rife in

Austria, the
Czech Republic,
Denmark,

Finland,

Holland,
Hungary,
Ireland,

Luxembourg,
Norway (and

here and

here),

Poland,
Portugal and

Spain.

In Italy, Ambassador

Alfredo Maiolese, an Italian MP, recently became a Muslim and now
dedicates his time trying to improving the image of Islam in the West.
In Sweden, there are
now at least 5,000 converts to Islam.

In Germany, at least 20,000 people have converted to Islam in
recent years, according to a report by
RTL television.
Some of these converts are playing a growing role in jihad in Germany.
In 2010, for example, two

German converts to Islam who were found guilty of plotting to
create what a judge called a “monstrous blood bath” by carrying out
terrorist attacks against American targets in Germany.

“This trend has taken on a very threatening quality toward our
security, and while not every convert is a potential terrorist, we are
facing a sort of homegrown terrorism that has sprouted in our own
backyard,” according to Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble….

In Switzerland, young converts to Islam are a potential threat to the
country’s security….  Swiss converts include people who want a
“radically different society” and are “resistant to dialogue.” He
described the Central Islamic Council of Switzerland, which was founded
and is run by Swiss converts to Islam, as “the most radical group in
Switzerland.”…

In Spain, at least

50,000 native Spaniards have converted to Islam in recent years,
many of them women.

Webislam.net, a Spanish-language website devoted to propagating
Islam in Spain, recently published an article that encourages Spanish
women to wed Muslim men. The article describes marriage to a Muslim this
way: “Multiculturalism is a rewarding experience for all concerned.”

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Soeren Kern is
Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo
de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on
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