Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent , were raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as Christians , and converted Change to Islam .

On 30 December it was reported Reporting that the perpetrator was an ethnic Russian convert Change to Islam from the city of Volzhsk , in the Mari El Republic , by the name of Pavel Pechenkin , who changed Change his name to Ar-Rusi after conversion to Islam .

On 30 December it was reported Reporting that the perpetrator was an ethnic Russian convert Change to Islam from the city of Volzhsk , in the Mari El Republic , by the name of Pavel Pechenkin , who changed Change his name to Ar-Rusi after conversion to Islam .

In an historical rarity , Protestant and Eastern Orthodox leaders , as well as representatives and heads from Judaism , Islam and Buddhism , offered Giving their own memorials and prayers Rite as a way of sympathising with the grief of Catholics .

`` Islam Online '' suggests Convincing that politics , not religion , was the cause Causation of the violence .

People such as Christian pastor George Orjih were murdered Killing specifically because they refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to convert to Islam .

The Battle of Mogadishu ( 2009 ) started Process_start in May with an Islamist offensive , when rebels from al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam attacked Attack and captured Conquering government bases in the capital of Mogadishu .

In early October the Al-Shabaab-Hizbul Islam alliance was broken Destroying by a power struggle in Kisimayo were after the two groups turned on Attack each other .

Most of the survivors were released after a truce in 841 , but prominent officials were taken Conquering to the caliph 's capital of Samarra and executed Rewards_and_punishments years later after refusing Agree_or_refuse_to_act to convert Change to Islam , becoming Becoming known as the 42 Martyrs of Amorium .

In a statement Statement on the Al-Hanein jihadi website , the Islamic State of Iraq ( ISI ) said Statement Tuesday 's attacks Attack were to avenge Revenge `` insults Judgment_communication '' against Aisha , the wife of Islam 's Prophet Mohammed .

The Noakhali riots were a series of semiorganized massacres Killing , rapes , abductions and forced conversions of Hindus to Islam and looting Robbery and arson of Hindu properties perpetrated Committing_crime by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal ( now in Bangladesh ) in October–November 1946 , a year before India 's independence from British rule .

It is estimated that 5,000 were killed Killing , hundreds of Hindu women were raped and thousands of Hindu men and women were forcibly converted Change to Islam .

The forcibly converted Change Hindus were coerced Convincing to give Giving written declarations Expressing_publicly that they had converted Change to Islam of their own free will .

To counter this , Kuchum Khan attempted Hold to centralize his rule by imposing Islam on his subjects and reforming Reforming_a_system his tax-collecting apparatus .

He converted Change to Islam and forged Creating an alliance with the Mamluk sultan .

It was at this point that Arab military expeditions Motion_directional into North African regions west of Egypt were first launched , continuing for years and furthering Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the spread Dispersal of Islam .

The events of the Second Fitna intensified Cause_change_of_strength sectarian tendencies in Islam and various doctrines were developed Coming_to_be within what would later become the Sunni and Shi ' a sects of Islam .

The events of the Second Fitna intensified Cause_change_of_strength sectarian tendencies in Islam and various doctrines were developed Coming_to_be within what would later become the Sunni and Shi ' a sects of Islam .

In this period of history , the Circassians were Christians ; Islam did not begin Process_start to penetrate Circassia until the following century .

Non-Arabs were treated as second-class citizens regardless of whether or not they converted Becoming to Islam , and this discontent cutting Bodily_harm across faiths and ethnicities ultimately led to Causation the Umayyads ' overthrow .

The National African American Leadership Summit , a leading group of civil rights activists and the Nation of Islam working with scores of civil rights organizations , including many local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( but not the national NAACP ) formed Coming_to_be the Million Man March Organizing Committee .

Louis Farrakhan was the main speaker and the event was sponsored Supply by his organization , The Nation of Islam , and by Sun Myung Moon 's Family Federation for World Peace and Unification ( usually known as the Unification Church ) .

Minister Farrakhan told Telling Nation of Islam members : `` I do n't want us to get bent out of shape because folk of another race desire to help .

Moon knew Know that some of them had `` problems with Minister Farrakhan '' , including the Nation of Islam 's push Self_motion for `` a ban Preventing_or_letting on interracial marriage Forming_relationships and their support for a separate nation for American blacks ...

The attacks Attack were blamed Judgment_communication on Salafi Muslims , and the attacks Attack began Process_start when the Muslims attacked Attack the Coptic Orthodox church of Saint Mina , where they alleged Statement a Christian woman was being held Defending against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam .