{"id":236,"date":"2016-07-10T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T06:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/german-journalist-accepts-islam-eid-al-fitr\/"},"modified":"2016-07-10T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T06:49:38","slug":"german-journalist-accepts-islam-eid-al-fitr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/german-journalist-accepts-islam-eid-al-fitr\/","title":{"rendered":"German Journalist, Martin Lejeune, Accepts Islam on `Eid Al-Fitr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Muslim worshippers performing `Eid Al-Fitr prayers early Tuesday, July 5, at Arresala mosque in Berlin were surprised when famous German journalist Martin Lejeune came forward to announce his reversion to Islam, pronouncing <em>shahada<\/em> in front of hundreds of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouncing the shahada, or declaration of faith, Lejeune was congratulated by Muslim worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>The imam of Arresala mosque in Berlin also praised Lejeune efforts, congratulating him on finding the true path of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1980, Lejeune is a famous German freelance journalist and war correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>He is known for his criticism of Israel and for his reporting on the Syrian Civil War. He also covered the 2014 Israel\u2013Gaza conflict remotely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: www.aboutislam.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:10px 0 10px 0\"><a href=\"\/\/send\" class=\"wa_btn wa_btn_l\">Share<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German journalist Martin Lejeune came forward to announce his reversion to Islam, pronouncing shahada in front of hundreds of Muslims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"open","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":[1284,167,1359,1360],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-eid-al-fitr","tag-featured","tag-german-journalist","tag-martin-lejeune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Martin-Lejeune.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-3O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}