US army officer embraces Islam
Source: The Frontier Post
ASADABAD (PAN): An American military officer has embraced Islam in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, the newly-converted Christian said on Saturday.
James Grant, from the American state of Tennessee, said he converted after reading books on Islam for the last seven months at a coalition camp in the town.
The US service-member, who changed his name to Mohammad Asif, formally announced his decision on Friday, insisting he found the religion true.
He said he had consulted his wife before the conversion. “She did not oppose my conversion. I would preach Islam to my family first, and then to others,” the father of two children said.
Grant proclaimed “Kalma-i-Shahadat in front of a crowd of Afghan and foreign military officers through an imam with the Afghan military named Hamidullah.
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Congratulations to this courageous officer and welcome to Islam! (There are several such conversions also in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, however, the majority of the American military do not even bother to study their surroundings, not to speak of the religion of its population).
Again, Mabrouk, Mubarak, Congratulations to the new Muslim. May he soon come to read THE MUSLIM TIMES! (Inshallah).
Congratulations to this brave officer and let us hope tat he becomes an ambassador of Islam in near future. Start from family is a good decision and then the friends around him. The aim throughout must be peace among-st the two civilizations.
well come to islam… Mr. Muhammad Asif