{"id":8169,"date":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/11\/21\/michael-jackson-converts-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","slug":"michael-jackson-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/michael-jackson-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson &#8221;converts to Islam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel. The 50-year-old star, pledged his allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a friend&#8217;s mansion in Los Angeles, the Sun reported.<br \/>\nJackson sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate &#8212; days before the singer is due to appear at London&#8217;s High Court where he is being sued by an Arab Sheik, the paper said. The star decided to adopt the new religion while he was recording a song at the home of his friend where a Jehovah&#8217;s witness was brought up to help him through the ceremony.<br \/>\nApparently the star of hits like &#8216;the Way You Make Me Feel-was convinced by his producer and songwriter friends David Wharnsby and Phillip Bubal. &#8220;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.<br \/>\n&#8220;An Imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief,&#8221; the source revealed.<br \/>\nMikaeel is the name of one of Allah&#8217;s angels. &#8220;Jacko rejected an alternative name, Mustafa meaning &#8220;the chosen one&#8221;, the source added.<br \/>\nThe singer, who rarely ventures out without a mask, is due to give evidence on Monday in a 4.7 million pound lawsuit brought by Prince Abdulla Al-Khalif of Bahrain for defaulting on an exclusive recording contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel. The 50-year-old star, pledged his allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a friend&#8217;s mansion in Los Angeles, the Sun reported. Jackson sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate &#8212; days before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}