{"id":13841,"date":"2024-03-13T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/former-pastor-shaun-king-converts-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:10:16","slug":"former-pastor-shaun-king-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/former-pastor-shaun-king-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pastor Shaun King Converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Activist and former pastor Shaun King recently announced he and his wife had converted to Islam.<\/p>\n

King shared<\/a> on Telegram Monday morning that he and his wife had attended evening prayers \u201cat our home mosque in Dallas, Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTogether, we took Shahada and converted to Islam to start off Ramadan. It was a beautiful, powerful, meaningful day for us that we will never forget,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The post also included a short clip of King\u2019s conversion ceremony, where he affirmed \u201cthere is only one God and his messenger is Muhammad.\u201d He described his conversion as a \u201cbeautiful, powerful, meaningful\u201d experience that he will \u201cnever forget.\u201d The former pastor also shared he planned to \u201cbegin fasting in the morning with over 1 billion Muslims around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0<\/em>The Christian Post<\/em><\/a>, King also expressed his support for the Palestinians in Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after the terror group attacked the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is with my dearest friends in Gaza and I\u2019m proud that we were able to provide meals tonight to thousands and thousands of families from the North to the South in Gaza and will do so every day of Ramadan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on Monday afternoon, King pledged\u00a0<\/a>to \u201cbegin sharing our journey with Islam this Ramadan.\u201d He was also thankful that \u201cwe have received hundreds of messages from all over the world of men, women, and children that want to convert to Islam with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

King is best known as a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2015, he disclosed<\/a> that the man listed as his biological father on his birthday certificate was not his birth father and that his true biological father was a \u201clight-skinned black man\u201d who had an affair with his mother. At the time, his comments resulted in allegations that he was pretending to be black.<\/p>\n

In 2020, professor and author Keisha N. Blain shared that he was previously<\/a> \u201cwarned\u201d about King and that she learned through personal experience that he is a \u201cliar and a fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the mass shooting<\/a> in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Oct. 1, 2017, King claimed that \u201cwhiteness, somehow, protects men from being labeled as terrorists.\u201d He added that the gunman, who was white, was given different treatment from the media as opposed to non-white shooters.<\/p>\n

Following the 2020 death of George Floyd in police custody, King received<\/a> backlash for declaring that \u201cthe statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down\u201d as well as with statues commemorating historic figures who owned slaves and\/or in favor of slavery. King also characterized the portrayal of Jesus as a \u201cform of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image credit: \u00a9Getty Images\/Kriangkrai Thitimakorn<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for Christian Headlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n