Jermaine Jackson wants Michael to convert to Islam
LONDON (Reuters) - Jermaine Jackson said on Monday he wants his brother Michael to convert to Islam; and he believes the reclusive superstar has given it serious thought.
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“Michael, I feel, needs to become a Muslim because I think it’s a great protection for him from all the things that he’s been attacked with, which are false,” said the former Jackson Five singer who now lives in Bahrain.
“There’s a strength and protection there,” Jackson told BBC Asian Newtwork after finishing runner-up to Bollywood star
Shilpa Shetty in the “Celebrity Big Brother” TV reality show that was marred by accusations of racist bullying.
Jackson said he believed his brother had given conversion “serious thought” during long spells in Bahrain.
“I was the reason why he had gone there because I wanted him to get out of America and just go somewhere it’s peaceful and quiet and people pray five times a day which is beautiful.”
Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges in June 2005.
He has said he plans to move to Europe in a bid to resurrect his musical career as the “King of Pop” and has indicated he will release a new album in 2007.
Jermaine Jackson said his faith helped keep him sane in the enclosed confines of the British reality TV program where the contestants are kept cooped up under 24-hour surveillance.
“If I didn’t have Allah and my prayer rug, I would not have survived and the reason why is because it kept me focused, it kept me calm,” he said.
I converted to Islam...because I wanted to know what the uproar was about post 9/11...found no connection between Islam & terrorism...only that men had deviated texts and ignored much of what is dictated. Peace is truly what Islam brings me...inner peace with God, a resting calm place in a crazy cruel world. Without my faith.... No thank you!
Islam is a state of faith not a name inherited by birth or position on the world map. Islam is inward and guides everything you think and do outwardly. Intention matters as much as the act itself.
Islam is a state of faith not a name inherited by birth or position on the world map. Islam is inward and guides everything you think and do outwardly. Intention matters as much as the act itself.
He has a right to revert to Islam. What’s everyone’s problem? If he repents at this moment with honesty then, according to the sunnah of Allah:swt:, he will be pardoned. I bet all this lot crying over his conversion with the fear that he will bring Islam a bad name, are the same who cry out loud for people like Salman Rushdi that Allah is the only judge.
Islam brought civilzation in humanity and it came to the people worst than what Jackson does. Islam is the remedy to all those diseases what he may have. You guys are such cruel to deny him a treatment?
