The way you Mecca me feel
He was feeling "a bit down." So he decided to convert to the "funnest" religion in the world -- you know, the one that bans -- and whips people for -- dancing. "Michael Jackson 'becomes a Muslim and changes name to Mikaeel,'" from the Daily Mail, November 21:
Beleaguered pop star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel, it has been claimed today.The 50-year-old singer, who has previously been photographed wearing a traditional Arab women's veil, reportedly became a Muslim in a ceremony at a friend's house in Los Angeles.
The singer, who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated at the home of Steve Porcaro, who composed music on his Thriller album.
He is said to have been encouraged by Canadian songwriter David Wharnsby and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who both approached him after he appeared 'a bit down'.
A source told The Sun: '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.'[...]
Meanwhile, Jackson is scheduled to give evidence in person at London's High Court to defend allegations that he owes an Arab sheikh £4.7 million.
That's one up to us, isn't it?
I mean we didn't even need to pay them any money to take him away?
Wow!
Are there any other liabilities we could palm-off onto them? HRH The Ponce of Wales springs immediately to mind. It could solve a lot of constitutional problems in years to come.
If they'll take Wacko Jacko, they'll take anything.
Sinn Fein, the Scottish Parliament, ArchBishop of Canterbury, BBC...
An Englishman can dream....
They can keep this perv as far as I'm concerned.
Good riddance forever?
You know he at one point was accused of molesting young children at his Never Land Park. I think that is what it is called. What better religion to convert to than Islam, if that were the case.
Watch for Jacko's next hit single:
Pearly Boys Who Don't Bleed
In line with savsiv's comments, I'm not at all surprised Michael Jackson would join a faith whose founder enjoyed sex with a child (and let's not forget the boys as lovely as pearls who, along with the 72 virgins, await Muslim males in the hereafter).
I don't think the Jehovah's Witnesses (the faith Jackson was raised in) offer similar pedophilic attractions.
Do you think they will stone him for cross-dressing?
His degradation is complete. He has forfeited his soul to Shaytan and forever must pass as a woman in his Niqab of Shame. Avert your eyes, lest ye be consumed by the fires of Na'ar and reduced to a fifth pillar of salt.
Michael Jackson is an idiot. Maybe Islam will become ‘the new Scientology’, absorbing airhead celebs as COS has Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Kirstie Allie. I’ll bet that Jackson knows almost nothing about Islam, he got talked into converting by two friends from the music business who had converted. And I’m sure they gave him the ROP spiel. Good riddance
Yeah, but he ain't got no zebiba.
Amazing. It will be interesting to see how he is accepted. I wonder what The One thinks about this? Will Jacko perhaps outfit himself as Ali Baba and do a command performance of the Sword Dance at the White House? Who's next? Madonna? Hugh Hefner? Sayeed Hefner's harem would be the envy of any Saudi prince. So many possibilities here, and I have no doubt that as we speak there are Hollywood writers rushing to pitch scripts to the studios.
I have long thought that it was just a matter of time before Islamic dress themes become the new fashion rage. Hasn't happened yet, but yet is a long time.
As long as Michael buggers infidel children, it's all halal.
I actually think this is pretty sad. He escaped another cult early in life, the Jehovah's Witnesses. Now he joined another one, albeit one which permits sodomizing little boys. Nice, MJ.
Memo to Michael...errr... Mikaell. The burqua is designed for the ladies.
"Yeah, but he ain't got no zebiba."
duh_swami, if Jacko isn't careful when banging his head on the floor, he won't have a nose either!
Why is he in LA at all? He made the right move - now, he should move back to Bahrein, or if that Bahreini sheikh is po'ed @ him, move to Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Yemen!
The way you Mecca me feel? Raymond, that's a hoot! But my memo to Mikaeel - just beat it!!!
Sad, when you recall the brilliance of the child Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5.
Here's some nostalgia for you (skip the first third of the video to get to the music):
I want you back
I actually don't think he has a nose anymore. It literally fell off during his last trial. I think he has some kind of Tyco Brahe prosthesis, combined with good make-up. The bridge of one's nose can only stand up to maybe two nosejobs, generally speaking, particularly those so extreme as the ones he's undergone, which basically involve breaking the nose and messing with the bone. Shaving off cartilage on the tip and rearranging the nostrils is one thing. Messing with the bone is something else. Jennifer Grey, for example, probably would not be advised to undergo another nosejob, since she had her Semitic bump broken and shaved down, whereas Angelina Jolie, who only had the tip of her nose messed with, could go for another one.
Abdullah Mikail, my man, you got a new namesake! STRATOSPHERIC!!
He only converted so that he can legally sleep with children.
The photo above was taken in Bahrein in 2006. However, is the kid there his? Also, have they also been converted? Or was their mother Debbie Rowe sensible enough to get them back from him? The kid with him doesn't look Arab.
Funnest? Given Jackson's perverse history with young boys, Jihadist's penchant for sodomizing boys according to Mohammad's sunnah, and the little boy he keeps in wrap, this is truly evil.
This little germanic-looking boy is obviously not his own, though he claims he is the father. Is celebrity so powerful that one can kidnap or purchase a child in broad daylight for sexual purposes, and police simply do nothing?
Or same police inaction, regardless if the child was his natural offspring? This child is being abused, period.
Who's next? Madonna? Hugh Hefner?
Not Hef. Trust me on this one.
just a matter of time before Islamic dress themes become the new fashion rage. Hasn't happened yet, but yet is a long time.
What about the Dunkin' Doughnuts chick with her keffiyeh? ;)
Now he can wear a burka the mans set but seriously this is proof that islam is the religion of the nut it had to attract him sooner or later and the child molestation thing fits great.
Well how about islam take boy george the fruit from wham and all the baldwin brothers everyone of them.
The keffiyeh? Quite fashionable, really.
Now that he is a black Muslim, maybe he can go to Somalia and help the Islamists search for the Hard to Find captured Saudi Oil Tanker and the pirates who seized this Islamic ship...He can help them return the ship and its 100 million dollar cargo to the other Muslims (the Saudis)..
Hey, spcbat, I like Alec Baldwin. They cannot have him.
Madonna? From bustier to burqa? That would be interesting. Tragic, but interesting.
I thought this article had to be a joke. After all, Jackson has become a running joke, himself. I'm still reeling.
I really have been out of touch with the news, lately!
One of his brothers (Jermain?) converted to The Religion of Pieces (tm) years ago, and one TV show I saw about Jacko quoted the brother as saying he was working on him, and he thought Jacko would convert eventually. What is surprising that that it has taken so long... it wouldn't have anything to do with the pending court case over the alleded $4.7 mil would it? Perhaps the case will now be moved to one the UK's sharia courts, and Jacko can become the Princes's botty-abeed.
As we all kmow, pedophilia is legal in Islam. We also know that Jackson was charged with several counts of pedophila a few years ago. It would make sense to infer that his conversion to Islam is a tacit admission of his own guilt in those charges filed against him.
If Jackson WASN'T a pedophile, what OTHER reason could there have been for him to convert to this hideous, mass-murdering cult (which offers nothing to anyone other than sado-masochistic lunatics)? I mean, a reason besides Jackson's being a full-blown loony.
Islam's loss is our gain. Are we engaging in a "stealth jihad"?
So now this idiot loses the only decent thing he had in him, his singing and dancing.
He's gone all the way over to the dark side.
It is funny though, his choice to walk around in a woman's veil.
They would, of course, let him slide on the child molesting. But will they let him walk around in girl's clothes?
It will be interesting to see if they allow his obvious public perversity -- I would assume on the grounds that he is rich and famous -- or if they go after him for being a public perv-job.
Lost soul.
He's been that way for awhile.
Oh boy, so MJ became a mooslim?
Wow, if anyone had any doubt the man with the disappearing nose had finally lost all his marbles, this should settle it once and for all.
Well, I'm saddened, but hardly surprised. Like Tziona, I'm rather surprised he didn't convert years ago.
He was an a precocious kid, and an extremely talented singer and dancer. His early videos were ground-breaking. I have an acquaintance who did technical work on his "Captain Eo" video--it's difficult to believe now that Michael Jackson ever partnered with Disney World.
I know he had a rough childhood and family life, and we've been watching his sad slide for years and years now. The extreme plastic surgery, the sham marriages, the isolation, and, especially, the numerous allegations of child molestation.
And now, he is deep in debt to a Saudi princeling, which probably rather resembles being in debt to the mob.
As soon as he decamped to the Gulf I anticipated that he, like one of his misguided brothers, would convert to the "Religion of Peace".
I still feel sorry seeing that he has hit rock bottom. At this point, I just hope that his kids--Prince Michael, Prince Michael II, and Paris--can escape this terrible mess and build decent lives for themselves. I think it's too late for their father.
RE: MJ wearing a burkha. I can't see where he can get in a whole lot of trouble with the Religion of Peas as there have been other accounts of mooselimb men wearing the outer clothing of women. Of course, that's when they're carrying weapons and don't want to run the risk of being frisked.
That being said, it's going to be interesting to see if the prince brings up charges on Mikaeel in a sharia court as Britain now recognizes and abides by the decision of a sharia court. If that's the case I don't see things going the way Mikaeel was expecting.
Geeze, what the heck is that; a still from the movie The Invisible, Cross Dressing Muslim?
Hey, whatever it takes to make your burka blow.
News Update: Jacko has settled out of court. No doubt his conversion had something to do with it. Its an old trick used by generations of Muslims, back a kaffir into a corner and offer a way out through conversion. If they're rich uses their wealth, if they're powerful uses their status, etc. the bottomline is always, if you convert you get to keep your wealth/status if you refuse we bankrupt you.
Jacko fell for it hook, line and sinker. If someone could find the facts, the Jacko Conversion Affair could be a great cautionary tale for use as a anti-da'awa teaching aid.
I'm with Sarah Palin. I like Stephen Baldwin best. LOL
One of his brothers (Jermain?) converted to The Religion of Pieces (tm) years ago, and one TV show I saw about Jacko quoted the brother as saying he was working on him, and he thought Jacko would convert eventually.
Posted by: Tziona
I think Cat Stevens conversion was encouraged by his Muslim brother as well.