{"id":1005,"date":"2020-04-21T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/21\/wilhelm-ott-the-great-austrian-mma-fighter-converts-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:59:11","slug":"wilhelm-ott-the-great-austrian-mma-fighter-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wilhelm-ott-the-great-austrian-mma-fighter-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilhelm Ott, the Great Austrian MMA Fighter, Converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian famed Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Wilhelm Ott converted to Islam while searching for the &#8216;truth&#8217; during the Coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Wilhelm Ott, a 37-year-old Austrian fighter from Mixed Martial Arts, announced on Instagram that he had become Muslim after reading the Shahadah.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;document.createElement('video');&lt;![endif]--><br \/>\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-23198-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Wilhelm-Ott-the-Great-Austrian-MMA-Fighter-Converts-to-Islam.mp4\">https:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Wilhelm-Ott-the-Great-Austrian-MMA-Fighter-Converts-to-Islam.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coronavirus has given me so much time that I can find my faith, my faith is so strong that I can proudly say that I am a Muslim, knowing God and reading the Shahadah,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI let myself be influenced politically. But when I had hard times, the Islamic faith gave me the necessary strength,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ott said he had been researching Islam for many years and thanked the fans for their full support.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, he thanked fellow Turkish MMA fighter Barak Kizlermak who had given him the gift of the Holy Quran and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Ott thanked the Muslim community for accepting Islam openly, acknowledging that they would fast for the first time in Ramadan this year.<\/p>\n<p>The great Austrian fighter known as The Amazing was born in 1982 and is currently ranked 74th in the rankings of 615 active wrestlers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sources: gossip.pk with some modifications<\/p>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willham Ott, the famous astrian MMA fighter, converts to Islam, stressing that the Corona crisis gave him an opportunity to reflect and find his faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[510,2],"tags":[3799,4887,4785,5068,5159,5160,5161,5162,5163,5164,5165,5166,5029,5167,167,3813,3818,5168,5169,5170,5171,5172,5173,5174,5175,5176,5177,5178,5179,5180,4901],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-can-i-convert-to-islam","tag-conversion-to-islam-2020","tag-converts-to-islam-2019","tag-converts-to-islam-2020","tag-converts-to-islam-in-2020","tag-converts-to-islam-in-europe","tag-converts-to-islam-statistics","tag-converts-to-islam-stories","tag-converts-to-islam-uk","tag-converts-to-islam-youtube","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-austria","tag-coronavirus-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-i-convert-to-islam","tag-i-want-convert-to-islam","tag-mma-fighter","tag-new-converts-to-islam-2020","tag-novel-coronavirus","tag-wilhelm-ott-instagram","tag-wilhelm-ott-mma","tag-wilhelm-otten","tag-wilhelm-otto","tag-wilhelm-otto-dix","tag-wilhelm-otto-klaus","tag-wilhelm-otto-klaus-hofheim","tag-wilhelm-otto-peters","tag-wilhelm-otto-von-bismarck","tag-wilhelm-ottomeyer-pyrmont","tag-youtube-conversion-to-islam-2020"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Wilhelm-Ott.jpg?fit=965%2C1227&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-gd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}