London: Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel.
The 50-year-old star pledged his allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a friend's mansion in Los Angeles, the Sun reported.
Jackson sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate -- days before the singer is due to appear at London's High Court where he is being sued by an Arab Sheikh, the paper said.
The star decided to adopt the new religion while he was recording a song at the home of his friend where a Jehovah's witness was brought up to help him through the ceremony.
Apparently the star of hits like The Way You Make Me Feel-was convinced by his producer and songwriter friends David Wharnsby and Phillip Bubal.
"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," the source revealed.
Mikaeel is the name of one of Allah's angels.
"Jacko rejected an alternative name, Mustafa meaning "the chosen one", the source added.
The singer, who rarely ventures out without a mask, is due to give evidence on Monday in a 4.7 million pound lawsuit brought by Prince Abdulla Al-Khalif of Bahrain for defaulting on an exclusive recording contract.
Hilariuos!
Saturday, March 7th 2009 at 4:28PM
Tiesha Thomas
I am a practicing Muslim myself, and after I finished reading this article, all I could say is, "ALLAH-U-AKBAR (God Is The Greatest) !!! May our brother continue to be blessed with happiness.
This is great news.
Sunday, March 8th 2009 at 6:11AM
agnes levine
If a man or woman takes the shahaddah---- AshadulaillahaIlallaah Ashadumohamed Rasulallaah-----He or she is a Believer in the Creator of the Heavens or the Earth. Whoever it is........ SlaveAmericans then in this column post; black this or that, white this or that, nation of islam, x, louis etc.-- THIS IS 2009---you house negros should at least by now have some intelligence about Al Islaam. MasterAmericans are more intelligent than this...go to them for info. Al Islaam is the only growing religion in Hollywood, negrowood, farmwood, englandwood, francewood, puertoricowood, brazilwood, panamawood, southafricawood, any wood..... LEARN SOMETHING IMPORTANT SlaveAmericans. And by the way Our Leader President Baraka Hussein Obama wants us to LEARN SOMETHING IMPORTANT also
Our Leader President Baraka Hussein Obama says, "The relative decline of American education is untenable for our economy, unsustainable for our democracy, and unacceptable for our children. We cannot afford to let it continue. What is at stake is nothing less than the American dream."
MiKaeel has been accused of many things in world of demonJustice---never convicted. With the Shahadah, all of his sins and evil committed as a nonBeliever are erased by Allaah. Hopefully someday the fathers and mothers that let their children sleep overnight at a grown mans house in the past will also take Shahadah and have their disbelief sins erased.
Louis, black muslim, nation have nothing to do with Al Islaam, they are aberations of christian belief. Thats education folks, Lets follow Our Leader President Baraka Hussein Obama.......
My interest in this report is I will chant(pray)that Michael Jackson continues on his road that can only lead him straight to becoming a PROUD Black member of the African diaspora.One of the requirements of a practicing Black Muslim...
And, my dear friend Earl, please let me know when and if the first "CONVICTED" child molesting Catholic preist has made it on the national Megan's list or did the POPE's trip to America continue to prevent this from happening in this country to this day(smile)
Just more FACT over being Stuck on Stupid due to personal bias, prejudices emotions over ruling the TRUTH...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
Earl,I get that you do not like Michael Jackson nor do I. but, I will not condemn the Nation of Islam for my dislike of him.Me, I see denial of being a member of his Black race and then allowing himself to be conned into believeing this is true beacuse the White world accepted him is why I am so against Michael Jackson.
I am also totally against the laws that allows him to have those two children, but again I will not condemn the Natiion of Islam for trying to help this person.
I do condem M.J. parents and mostly his mother, because as shy as he is they still put him out among strangers for going door to door and then before the public at large. Earl, please try to understand that any one who misses being able to be a child will never be able to fully function in the adult world. This is much like the human being has only so many years to learn to speak or their speech will never be normal. This is a law of nature...
And, no Earl the reason I left the Catholic church was after learning how the POPE used the Holy Bible to prove that Africans were not human therefore the only way we as a people could gain souls were to be put into slavery for LIFE!!!And this is why America is the only country on the planet to ever have had Chatel Slavery. An open mind would be able to not keep denying actually what a person says for what they want to believe(smile)Remember this about the Preist was hidden until recently, Earl?
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
Thank you Earl, but I promise you it is some times hard to over come personal emotions and step into the other person's shoes.
No Earl, I am in no way trying to get you to stop doing your own thinking and coming to your own conclusions as I am always trying to do just the opposit of this.Only trying to get across how there are many sides to a story.
Like those parents of these children, in my opinion should have been charged with child endangerment and maybe even selling a human being for attention,fame, Jackson's money?!!!This for me envolved way far more than Michael Jackson. All children are innocent and just as you said, children are not likely to lie or to even know about this kind of behavior in the first place.
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
Interesting Earl as I was accepted to Hasting school of law upon graduating from UCD.And, could have used my fellow ship award to attend.
but, Earl I know that Judges have a way of not seeing any other side of an issue but their own therefore I would have ended up spending more time in jail for "contempt" of their court and turned this down.Earl, I am telling you the truth.
I am a product of trying to use Logic over emotions, because I am a product of the 60s movement where we used the law to go against itself by over coming our EMOTIONS over being abused by the laws of this land as if it was something willed by GOD that we suffer in this life...
And, Earl, I know the Bible inside and out.I am in the process of learning how to read the words of the NOI. I repeat one must understand from all sides(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
going off topic again...Earl, 'emotions' is what have a lot of people saying,"I wish I had not done / said that",die, before"their time"... find out that the "I am not going to get caught' is too often a lie...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
