Michael jackson converts to Islam & changes his name
Offline Maybe this will cause some Muslims to deconvert? 
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3494296/Michael-Jackson-converts-to-Islam-and-changes-name-to-Mikaeel.html
The singer, who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, converted to Islam in a ceremony at a friend's house in Los Angeles.
He is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated.
According to The Sun, the ceremony took place while Jackson, 50, was recording an album at the home of Steve Porcaro, a keyboard player who composed music on his Thriller album.
The former Jackson 5 star was counselled by David Wharnsby, a Canadian songwriter, and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who have both converted.
A source said Jackson had appeared a "bit down" and added: "They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.
"An imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief."
Last year his brother, Jermaine Friday, suggested Jackson would convert having taken an interest in Islam since Friday's conversion in 1989.
"When I came back from Mecca I got him a lot of books and he asked me lots of things about my religion and I told him that it's peaceful and beautiful," said Friday.
"He read everything and he was proud of me that I found something that would give me inner strength and peace.
"I think it is most probable that Michael will convert to Islam.
"He could do so much, just like I am trying to do. Michael and I and the word of God, we could do so much."
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Isn't he dead yet?
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Does this mean MJ has to wear a burka now?
Strange how he never got recruited into scientology. Maybe all the surgery he had got rid of the dead aliens in his body.
There are no theists on operating tables.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
According to the Thriller video, he has been for quite some time.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
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We need beer. I'm done at five.
No, there's no connection to MJ.
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Sounds good. I gave blood today, so I'll be a cheap drunk.
So now instead of molesting young boys, he has the sometimes right to molest young girls? ...................................
(Maybe that's not funny... yet.)
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"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
It's not strange at all. He's broke.
Organised religion is the ultimate form of blasphemy.
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I remember him when he was black; now he has lighter skin then my daughters and my father. Islam can have him and with any luck he will suicide bomb a YMCA summer camp, just saying, eh?
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
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If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Wow, so now he's a Muslim, child-molesting, old white woman that used to be young black man.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
He probably did it for the name change.
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Does still being incredibly boring count? Honestly, now. Converting from one rama-rama ding-ding to another can't help anyone.
And to answer your question: I, too, am amazed that he hasn't yet bled out from all the surgery.
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