Why Do People Convert To Islam? - BBC Radio 5 Live

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More and more white British people are converting to Islam. That's according to research by Swansea University - it estimates there are now 100-thousand converts in the UK. What drives people to make such a change in their belief, lifestyle and - in some cases - their dress?

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  • "Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation, and reason with them in the better way. Lo! thy Lord is Best Aware of him who strayeth from His way, and He is Best Aware of those who go aright.”

  • People are converting to Islam because it is the Truth. Whether it empowers women, or that it brings inner peace, are secondary.

    It is the arrogance of men who refuse to accept that fact.

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  • allah blesss you

  • Asking Women right in Islam, then he start to talk over them.lol

  • "5000 years ago a goldfish created the world. Listened to prayers, granted eternal happiness if you obeyed it. If not, you would have eternal punishment.Hail fish!,creator of all!!I know you existed,the book says so!.I 'feel' it and you are not allowed to disrespect or offend my 'feeling' My 'faith' is answer enough & my fish 'praised be he' will take care of me. Others worship great squirrel or Donkey but mine is the RIGHT one.It says so in my book" Congratulations. This is what you sound like.

  • May Allah bless you lauran see how she defends about islam..

    May Allah reward you the paradise Amin

  • The presenter was very fair and sincere.

  • prophet mohammed is in the bible check the hebrew version which is not the translated but the original no matter what question u ask about religion the quaran and the hadith will answer

  • your mind is evil how can you accuse us of being evil if you have no evidence islam is the true religion if i waz you i wouldnt read a translated book i wud learn 2 read the original bible to find the true meanings because your priests hve changed the words into something completely different if you read the language of jesus which is hebrew you will find out that there is a verse were the prophet mohammeds is ther

  • all the prophets are muslims its just they spoke a different language arabic hebrew etc people hate muslims coz we are arabs and plus did u knw that there was arab prophets before moses and yousef .dont confuse your self with terrorists and muslims terrorist are people who are miss guided and upset because of people invadeing thier land

  • @avagage1 how exactly were you lead to the conclusion that the Qur'an is an evil book

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