THE ANSWER

**Perjalanan Syekh Khalail Abu Asmaa (Christopher J. Moore) menuju  Cahaya Islam

By Khalil Abu Asmaa (Christopher Moore)
** Unfinished Rough Draft **

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“Why did you convert?”… “How did it happen?”…

These resonating questions have been posed to me perhaps hundreds of times since that unforgettable decision I made in the summer of 1994. Why and how would a typical Caucasian, Catholic, nineteen-year-old American convert to such a “strange and mysterious” religion as Islam. These inquiries are all the more pertinent considering that this young man was born and raised in the West during the later part of the 20th century, in a world that is increasingly more hostile to and abusive of the sacred.