Since the Ottawa lone wolf shooting, 20 youth have become new converts
at one Ottawa mosque and, once converted to Islam, they don't go back. They seem to be converted for the wrong reason if they don't go back to the mosque. Muslim leaders say that there should be stricter process for conversion. They are worried.
Ashley Burke, CBC News Ottawa
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Ottawa Mosque concerned by sharp rise in young men converting to Islam
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-mosque-concerned-by-sharp-rise-in-young-men-converting-to-islam-1.2901099
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It's two sentences in Arabic, saying you believe there is one god and that Prophet Muhammad is his messenger, and it can be read aloud at home or anywhere else, as long as a witness is present.
Amira Elghawaby National Council of Canadian Muslims Ottawa converts Jan 14 2015
Amira Elghawaby, a member of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, says the Muslim community should be doing more to support and educate potential converts. (CBC)
"We try to give them our contacts, we try to encourage them to come again, but unfortunately the vast, vast majority of new converts, they come once and they disappear," Metwally said.
"They never come back again. And this is a big concern for us."
Leaders call for rule requiring converts to take course
The National Council of Canadian Muslims worries that some new converts aren't on a sincere spiritual journey, and that they may be looking to join a cause for the excitement of fighting overseas, for example.
"If Islam is that cause, and that's the only reason that they're going for it, then clearly they're misguided, misdirected, and that's certainly not going to benefit them spiritually and certainly [it's] troubling for all of us," said Amira Elghawaby, a member of the council.
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