{"id":1305,"date":"2005-11-30T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/30\/abu_sinan_on_perceptions_of_converts"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:35:32","slug":"abu_sinan_on_perceptions_of_converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/30\/abu_sinan_on_perceptions_of_converts","title":{"rendered":"Abu Sinan on perceptions of converts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Sinan&#39;s blog has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/abusinan.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/recently-subject-of-convertsreverts.html\">how converts are perceived<\/a> and the continual &quot;wannabe&quot; tag which is applied to them\/us in certain places:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou get the Christians or Jews who are scared and worried. I mean, why would someone abandon their faith to go to another one? Is there something wrong with our faith? Have they seen something we don&#39;t? Is the convert\/revert just someone who doesn&#39;t fit in who is trying to find another group to cling to?<br \/>\nYou also get the lapsed, non practicing Muslims, who wonder why anyone would choose to follow a faith that they themselves have rejected or are just too lazy to follow. Often they cannot get their mind around the idea that Islam is a wonderful faith that others outside the religion would feel drawn to, so they have to make it out to be that converts\/reverts are sheep, they don&#39;t really know the religion, or they are just people that &quot;wannabe&quot; Arabs. They fall into the trap that so many non Muslims have, &quot;<br \/>\nNever mind the fact that Arabs only make up about 10-15% of Islam, and never mind, that as a Muslim, I have found that just as many converts who adopt the cultural practices of a Muslim nation take on Pakistani or African traits. It is also my experience that converts\/reverts also, for the most part, do not come to the religion because they are seeking to &quot;fit in.&quot; I couldn&#39;t think of almost anything else one could do in the post 9\/11 world to make you fit in LESS than to convert\/revert to Islam. Converts tend to be the very people who have never sought to fit in, who have traveled their own paths, and don&#39;t really feel the need to &quot;fit in.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Sinan&#39;s blog has an article on how converts are perceived and the continual &quot;wannabe&quot; tag which is applied to them\/us in certain places: You get the Christians or Jews who are scared and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42700,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/42700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}