From Critic to Convert | The Joram van Klaveren Story: From Islamophobe to Believer

For a summarized version of Sidi Joram's story by the Emir-Stein Center: https://youtu.be/Hjz_YIvlCw8

Here is Sidi Joram's book "Apostate" was published in 2019. The forward was written by Prof. Abdal Hakim Murad and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. Purchase the book at:

https://www.amazon.com/Apostate-Joram-van-Klaveren/dp/9079294322

Sidi Joram van Klaveren shares his remarkable personal journey as a former far-right Dutch lawmaker who had been fiercely critical of Islam and why he chose to became a Muslim in 2019 while he had been penning a book meant to be anti-Islam.

Joram van Klaveren was a lawmaker in the Party of Freedom, led by Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders, from 2010 to 2014. During that time, he advocated a burqa ban, a ban on masjid minarets and a ‘de-Islamization‘ of the Netherlands.

In February 2019, he announced his religious conversion to Islam. The Islamophobic polemic he had been penning morphed into a rousing defense of the faith.

Sidi van Klaveren was hosted in summer 2019 on his U.S. visit by the Emir-Stein Center, which seeks to promote empathy and understanding through religious and cultural literacy. Learn more about their work at https://www.emir-stein.org

This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on June 18, 2019.

From this talk, learn about Anthony Janszoon van Salee, who is considered as the first known Muslim settler in the Americas and also the first inhabitant of Brooklyn in New York: https://youtu.be/SDRB0TKJXZU

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