Would you be concerned about someone close converting to islam?

Well **** me... is that really what you think? like seriously? I've had so many mates convert to islam over the years and they're the most mellow ppl!

Clean people are mentally ill? There nothing sane about western secularism, anyone can live like an animal. I'd say the mentally ill are the Friday/Night bingers, pregnant teenagers and MTV addicts.

IE a member of the family or a close friend/ someone you work with? This is asked amidst the current climate where many converts, particulalry in the west , feature heavily in lists of convicted members of islamist groups plotting or supporting attrocities. In europe converts have been identified native to numerous countries that have gone on to be arrested. The general pattern to islamist activity has been started with an initial growing interest in political matters ( taken from an islamic standpoint)

In the Uk there have been numerous white british christians/non christian converts as well as british black converts and even now asian converts.

would you have any concerns or no issues - and if so would you report?

Surely they should be praised; devotion to the prophet is a noble way of life. How many of you albino pastry faced crackers have tried fasting or praying 5 times a day from 5 am onwards eh? I would be far more concerned about an individual attending various clubs, pubs, engaging in early copulations, engaging in gambling, drug use and alcohol. The westerner always manages to twist good standards of behaviour in to something that should be demonised. So now we have a society that instead of aspiring to art, literature, academic learning and higher pursuits is fixated on instant gratification, mall/MTV culture, promiscuity, social media, technology. These kaffir ****s have the audacity to accused muslims of being backward when its actually western society (mostly anglo american/aus culture - italy and france have the right idea) that is lying in the gutter.

Your statement was false, so I commented on that. Thobes are not a religious thing, they're a Middle Eastern and Bedouin thing. Maybe Bedouin Christians do wear it, but Christians in Egypt as I am sure, generally, don't.

I never said that Christians in Egypt generally wear a thobe, that wouldn't be true - neither would it be true to say that Muslims in Egypt generally wear a thobe! What is certain from my own experiences, however, is that people in more rural areas of the country such as Upper Egypt, do tend to wear thobes, regardless of their religious beliefs.

The westerner always manages to twist good standards of behaviour in to something that should be demonised. So now we have a society that instead of aspiring to art, literature, academic learning and higher pursuits

is fixated on instant gratification, mall/MTV culture, promiscuity, social media, technology. These kaffir ****s have the audacity to accused muslims of being backward when its actually western society (mostly anglo american/aus culture - italy and france have the right idea) that is lying in the gutter.

Is it not the case though that they are the token white guy? Considering how many white people do convert, I would assume that such token individuals are still a very small percentage.

IE a member of the family or a close friend/ someone you work with? This is asked amidst the current climate where many converts, particulalry in the west , feature heavily in lists of convicted members of islamist groups plotting or supporting attrocities. In europe converts have been identified native to numerous countries that have gone on to be arrested. The general pattern to islamist activity has been started with an initial growing interest in political matters ( taken from an islamic standpoint)

In the Uk there have been numerous white british christians/non christian converts as well as british black converts and even now asian converts.

would you have any concerns or no issues - and if so would you report?

If someone close to me decides to convert to Islam, then so be it. If it is where s/he finds peace of mind, and if it is where s/he thinks her/his spiritual happiness lie, it is all up to her/him.

IE a member of the family or a close friend/ someone you work with? This is asked amidst the current climate where many converts, particulalry in the west , feature heavily in lists of convicted members of islamist groups plotting or supporting attrocities. In europe converts have been identified native to numerous countries that have gone on to be arrested. The general pattern to islamist activity has been started with an initial growing interest in political matters ( taken from an islamic standpoint)

In the Uk there have been numerous white british christians/non christian converts as well as british black converts and even now asian converts.

would you have any concerns or no issues - and if so would you report?

I agree that conversion is not a problem : radicalisation is, but it is not automatic that a convert will become a radical. Most converts will simply get on with their lives, rather than dream about Caliphates

still, I would be very much interested by the motives for conversion : in my view, Islam is a backward, negative ideology, so it is always a bit difficult to understand what motivates converts. It is an effort that, in my opinion, we should not hesitate to undertake

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While in some aspects, Islam could be backward and negative like you've mentioned, I still think it still has some positive aspects in it. Or that is, based on what I have learned from another Muslim I have encountered in a couple of years ago.