Activist and former pastor Shaun King recently announced that he and his wife had converted to Islam.
king share In a Monday morning telegram, he said he and his wife attended evening prayers at their “home mosque in Dallas, Texas.”
“We embraced Shahadah together and converted to Islam to begin Ramadan. It was a beautiful, powerful and meaningful day that we will never forget,” he added.
The post also included a short clip of Dr. King’s conversion ceremony, in which he affirmed, “There is one God and His messenger is Muhammad.” He described his conversion as a “beautiful, powerful and meaningful” experience that he would “never forget.” The former pastor also revealed plans to “begin fasting in the morning along with over a billion Muslims around the world.”
according to christian postKing also expressed support for Palestinians in Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after the terrorist group attacked the Jewish state on October 7, 2023.
“My heart is with our dear friends in Gaza and I am proud to have been able to feed thousands of families from north to south of Gaza tonight, and will do so every day during Ramadan.”
Late Monday afternoon, King pledged “Start sharing our journey with Islam this Ramadan”. He also thanked that “we have received hundreds of messages from men, women and children from all over the world who want to convert to Islam with us.”
Dr. King is best known as a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2015 he disclosed The man listed as her biological father on her birthday certificate was not her biological father, and her real biological father was a “light-skinned black man” who had an affair with her mother. At the time, his comments led to suspicions that he was pretending to be black.
In 2020, professor and author Keisha N. Blaine said she was: Before He “warned” about King, saying he learned from personal experience that he was a “liar and a fraud.”
later mass shooting incident On October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that “being white somehow protects a man from being labeled a terrorist.” He added that the shooter was white and received different treatment from the media in contrast to non-white shooters.
In response to the death of George Floyd in police custody in 2020, Dr. received The backlash against the declaration that “statues of white Europeans who they claim to be Jesus should also be removed” and statues commemorating historical figures who owned slaves or supported slavery. was also removed. King also characterized the portrayal of Jesus as “a form of white supremacy.”
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributor to Christian Headlines and host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and Biblical truth. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Alliance Theological Seminary.
