Biographies Of American Leaders Who Converted To Islam

Biographies Of American Leaders Who Converted To Islam

 Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (Born as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.. On January 17, 1942) from the father Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. a painter billboards (billboards) and traffic signs and mother Odessa Grady Clay, a clothes washer. Ali is a retired boxer United States.

In 1999, Ali was awarded the "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated.Ali three-time World Boxing Champion heavyweight. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

 Its name after the name of his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.. Ali later changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam and embraced Sunni Islam in 1975.

Prior to Islam, he dubbed himself "The Greatest" because he is the best boxer of his time. Even sports observers acknowledge as the best boxer of the century. Boxing history has never known her as soon as boxers. He competed with agile in the ring and knocked out his opponent, he announced proudly, "I am the greatest". On 6 September 1979: Ali states withdrew from boxing, and declared the title vacant. On December 11, 1981, once again Ali is aging, trying to get back into the world of boxing against Trevor Berbick in the Bahamas in a game entitled "Drama in Bahama". In a frail condition, Ali is able to perform better than against Holmes, although eventually losing a 10 round. After this match, Ali actually retire from boxing. However, after converting to Islam, he threw this nickname, because it does not like to boast themselves into a simple and with the Islamic spirit. He is the world boxer Cassius Clay, who later Mercelus known as Muhammad Ali Clay.

        Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Litvinenko was born in the city of Voronezh in Russia. He graduated from a Soviet high school there in 1980. He then subject to compulsory military service in the Soviet Army was and based on his performance, often gaining promotion from ordinary soldier to lieutenant colonel. In 1988, he began serving in the Soviet counter-intelligence agency KGB, and in 1991, was promoted to General Staff MB-FSK-FSB Russia, specializing in counter-terrorism activities and the infiltration of organized crime. He was awarded the title of "MUR veteran" of the operations are done by MUR (Moscow Criminal Investigation Department). Litvinenko also perform active military service in many areas called "hot spots" of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Figure which had been graced by international media reports in the second half of the year 2006, after his death it was revealed as a kind of poison killed by the radioactive substance polonium-210 isotope. Before his death, apparently a former secret agent spy the Russian intelligence agency, the Federal Security Sevice was advised that he buried the Islamic way. Indeed, at that time only a few people who knew about the closest Litvinenko become Muslim. A number of international media reported that his funeral was held in secret, attended at least 30 close relatives of Litvinenko. His own funeral ceremony was held in the northern city of London, England. Separate ceremony to honor the last time also held at Regent's Park Mosque, London. This is in accordance with his wish that his funeral procession was held in accordance with Islamic law. Even his father, Walter Litvinenko, reportedly attended the ceremony at the Regent's Park Mosque with frontman Chechen fighters, Akhmed Zakayev. Relatives said Litvinenko, father of three children has become a Muslim before he died.

According to Walter, his son was already declared themselves converted to Islam while lay dying in a London hospital until she died on 23 November 2006. '' Litvinenko converted to Islam two days before his death ", and Walter said his son originally embraced Orthodox Christians expressed his last request, which is to be buried according to Islam. '' He said, want to be buried with the Islamic way “

  

      Robert D. Crane

Dr. Robert Dickson Crane (born on March 26, 1929) is the former adviser to the late President of the United States Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the United States National Security Council. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and over 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management.

Crane was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1945, at the age of 16, he entered Harvard University to study Russian as the first step in becoming an international journalist. In 1948, he became the first American permitted to study at a university in Occupied Germany, having been accepted at the University of Munich.

In 1962, Dr. Crane became one of the four co-founders of the first Washington-based foreign-policy think-tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Conversion to Islam

According to Crane, "Allah converted me to Islam when I was five years old, and again through a religious experience when I was 21, but I did not know there were other persons in the world who understood what Allah showed me until I met an old man in Bahrain who told me that there is a word for what I worshiped, and this is "Allah." I figured that all Muslims could not be bad, as I had thought before, if this man was so good and was an admitted Muslim. I did not choose to become a Muslim. I am and have always been a Muslim, but did not know it self-consciously until I was 50 years old.”

From the early 1980s, Dr. Crane has worked full-time as a Muslim activist in America. From 1983 to 1986, he was the Director of Da’wa at the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. In 1986 he joined the International Institute of Islamic Thought as its Director of Publications, and then helped to found the American Muslim Council, now defunct serving as Director of its Legal Division from 1992 to 1994.

From 1994 until the present time he has headed his own research center, the Center for Policy Research, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C. Since 1996 he has also been a board member of the United Association for Studies and Research and Managing Editor of its Middle East Affairs Journal. Dr. Crane has been a long-time principal adviser to Hamas official Dr. Ahmed Yousef, also associated with the Journal Middle East Affairs.

Michael Wolfe

 Michael Wolfe (Born 3 April 1945, United States) is a poet, author, and film producer. Now and then Wolfe has taught writing and literature, at Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Andover Academy, the California State Summer School for the Arts, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is an occasional speaker on Islamic issues at universities including Stanford, Harvard, Georgetown, SUNY Buffalo, and Princeton. He holds a degree in Classics from Wesleyan University.

In April 1997, Wolfe hosted a televised account of the Hajj from Mecca for Ted Koppel's "Nightline" on ABC. The program was nominated for Peabody, Emmy, George Polk, and National Press Club Awards.  In 1999, Wolfe and Alex Kronemer co-founded an educational media foundation called Unity Productions Foundation (UPF). In 2002, UPF produced its first full-length film, entitled Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, a two-hour television documentary on the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad. The film, which Wolfe co-created, co-produced, and co-executive edited, received a national broadcast on PBS and subsequent international broadcasts on National Geographic International. It was awarded a Cine Special Jury Award for Best Professional Documentary of the Year in its category of People and Places He also co-produced a trio of hour-long documentary films on individual American Muslims pursuing their dreams in post-9/​11 America. All were broadcast on PBS between 2008 and 2009.

In 2009, he co-produced Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, a one-hour documentary based on the results of the Gallup Organization’s eight-year Poll of Muslims around the world.

5Malcolm X

At the date of May 19, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, a black baby was born and given the name Malcolm Little. Later, the baby was so well known by the name of Malcolm X, and every Muslim blacks in the U.S. knew who Malcolm X. 'X', the name given by the people who make it a Muslim. 'X' a way to identify themselves with slaves black Africans transported to America. Back in the 19th century, even the name of the black men was not ignored by the slave traders, and therefore they are simply referred to as "X".

Malcolm X (19 May 1925-21 February 1965) was a Muslim leader of the African-Americans who ketokohannya can be juxtaposed with Dr. Martin Luther King who fought to remove all sorts of discrimination more so that befell the African-Americans who often connoted with the negroes who is discrimination. At age 20 he was put on trial in a case of theft and detained until berusian 27 years. As with many other prisoners, he does a lot of mischief in prison, but he likes to be alone in the room behind the prisoner.

On the day of his release Malcolm went straight to Detroit to join the activities of NOI (Nation of Islam). By joining Malcolm, Noi evolved into a nationwide organization. Malcolm himself became a famous figure in the world, "At my age which is the 39th, I was in the holy city of Mecca. That's when, for the first time in my life, I stood before the creation of the Almighty, and I feel like a whole human being. "(The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley).

Malcolm X eventually founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity on June 28, 1964. On February 21, 1965, at the time will give a talk at a hotel in New York, Malcolm X was killed tip bullets three African-Americans who ironically he fought for the values ​​and rights, and no one knows who and what is behind his death. However, the dream of spreading the vision of Malcolm X anti-racism and Islamic values ​​are humanist, evocative among Afro-Americans and the world.

Michael Gerard Tyson

Michael Gerard Tyson aka Malik Abdul Aziz or Mike Tyson was born June 30, 1966, New York City, United States, Tyson is one of the most feared boxers because of their brutality. He is out of jail and the children were expelled from school. He then pulled out of reform school by renowned boxing trainer, Cus D'Amato, because he saw the potential and talent that exist in Michael Gerard Tyson. He was a professional boxer and former heavyweight champion. A very promising career hampered by a variety of criminal cases. Mike Tyson internationally nicknames is "Iron Mike", referring to his posture strong as iron. Several other mass media prefer to call it as "The Baddest Man on Earth", which refers to a bad temperament, both inside and outside the boxing ring. Meanwhile, the Indonesian press prefer to call Tyson as "The Neck Concrete" refers to the neck loop Tyson in his prime that extra larger than normal size, and seemed so solid. Mike Tyson's career started amateur boxing, before plunging into professional boxing, after losing on points in amateur boxing to the Olympic qualifiers from Henry Tillman.

Officially, in 1995, post-prison in Indiana, Mike Tyson announced it has converted to Islam he had learned while in prison. Tyson was a Muslim name MalikAbdul Aziz.

Neil Alden Armstrong 

Neil Alden Armstrong  Born 5 Agustus1930, on a farm of his grandfather, Auglaizy County, Ohio is the first U.S. astronaut, first man on the earth surface feet menjejakan month, using aircraft Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969. accompanied by Edwin Aldrin. Neil menjejakan Amstronglah the legs for the first time when the module out of the plane, and were exploring the lunar surface. He is very keen to develop your flight, or something that can be flown from the age of 13 years. He loved airplanes. When for the first time can fly his airplane toys at the age of 6 years, from there he was so fascinated with the science of flight.

In 1947, Neil Armstrong entered Purdue University. He began to learn about the science of flight techniques. But in 1949 the U.S. government calling for active citizens in a state duty. He eventually became the pilot for the Navy, and was sent to Korea. in 1950, when the Korean War began. He flew the Panther jet fighter.

The first time his feet touched the surface of the moon, he said: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (A small step for man, a great leap for humanity) ". Before returning to Earth Neil Armstrong left a memento in the month of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Neil tried steeped in American Islam, when he became interested in Islam. Finally, a few months later, he announced his Islam, and express it in an interview that he claimed to Islam because he had heard the call to prayer with his own ears on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong died after undergoing heart bypass surgery earlier this month due to coronary heart disease, as reported by Reuters on Saturday (25/8). He died at the age of 82 years.  

Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (in Islam: Mikaeel Jackson) (born in Gary, Indiana, United States, August 29, 1958 - died in Los Angeles, California, USA, June 25, 2009 at the age of 50 years) is a singer and writer song of the United States. He is best known as the "King Of Pop" and popularized the dance movements "Moonwalk" which has become his trademark. Album which was released in 1982, Thriller, is the best-selling album in the world, with sales exceeding 104 million copies worldwide. He began his singing career at the age of five years as a member of the Jackson family vocal group (later became The Jackson 5) before launching his first solo album Got to Be There in 1971. As the seventh child of the Jackson family, he made ​​his debut in professional music at the age of 11 years as a member of the Jackson 5. In the early 1980s, he became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African-American musicians who have a strong crossover on MTV.

Michael Jackson died at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 25, 2009, At 14:26 local time. He was unconscious after suffering heart failure (cardiac arrest). He is suspected of having heart failure shortly after being given an injection of Demerol

Profesor William

William Lacy Brown (July 16, 1913 — March 8, 1991) was an American geneticist notable for breeding programs in maize, sorghum, soybeans and wheat. He was president, chairman and chief executive of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. He was also a director of the Rockefeller Foundation's advisory committee on maize. Brown was elected to the National Academies of Science.  The National Academies Press said that Brown "made significant and lasting contributions to increasing and stabilizing food production worldwide".Brown received Ph.D. from Washington University in 1941. Brown almost entire career of 40 years was with Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of hybrid seed corn.

On a scientific study that was reported by a renowned science magazine, Journal of Plant Molecular Biologist, said that a group of scientists who conducted the research to get a smooth sound that comes out of most plants are not usually heard by the ordinary ear. The sound successfully saved and recorded with a sophisticated recording device ever. It does not sound pulses but lafadz jalalah (name of Allaah) as it appears in the layer (Oscilloscope). Finally the person responsible for this study, namely Prof. William Brown met the Muslim scientists to discuss about religion brought by an unlettered Prophet (can not read or write) before 1400 years ago about this phenomenon. The scientists then had to explain to him about Islam, after which he gave to the Quran and terjemahnya professor.