{"id":864,"date":"2008-11-26T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=864"},"modified":"2008-11-24T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:04:48","slug":"culture-news-michael-jackson-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Culture News: Michael Jackson converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Pop star Michael Jackson converts to Islam<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1039906.html\" target=\"_blank\">By Haaretz Service &#8211; 23\/11\/2008<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam, the Sun newspaper reported over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old pop star, who changed his name to Mikaeel, pledged allegiance to the Koran at a friend&#8217;s house in Los Angeles. An Imam was summoned from a nearby mosque to hold the shahada, the declaration of belief in Allah and Mohammed&#8217;s prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>An associate said that Jackson chose his new name, which is the name of one of Allah&#8217;s angels, after rejecting another Muslim name, Mustafa, which means &#8220;the chosen one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, he sold his multimillion California estate, Neverland Ranch, to cover his debts. He is also facing a lawsuit by a Bahrain prince, Sheikh Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, who alleges he gave Jackson $2.2 million after he was acquitted of child molestation in 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Pop star Michael Jackson converts to Islam By Haaretz Service &#8211; 23\/11\/2008 The American singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam, the Sun newspaper reported over the weekend. The 50-year-old pop star, who changed his name to Mikaeel, pledged allegiance to the Koran at a friend&#8217;s house in Los Angeles. An Imam was summoned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Culture News: Michael Jackson converts to Islam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,71,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-news","category-current-events","category-false-religion","category-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}