\nThe death of Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert who blew herself up in a suicide attack on US troops in Iraq last month, has drawn fresh attention to the rising number of Islamic converts in Europe, most of them women.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThis subject is close to my heart, as my mother was a European convert, albeit from very different times.\u00a0 She converted in 1970 (on her own, before meeting my father, an American who converted in 1957) in Copenhagen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
It\u2019s tragic that this phenomenon is automtically viewed through the prism of security and terrorism, rather than religion and psychology.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m not one of these Muslims who measure Muslim “success” or Islam\u2019s validity by conversion rates, but I found this article enlightening: “Why European women are turning to Islam” by Peter Ford. The death of Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert who blew herself up in a suicide attack on US troops in Iraq last month, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-of-the-day","category-women-in-islam"],"yoast_head":"\n
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