{"id":743,"date":"2018-08-02T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/a-french-youngman-i-was-blessed-to-find-islam\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:40:36","slug":"a-french-youngman-i-was-blessed-to-find-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/a-french-youngman-i-was-blessed-to-find-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"A French Youngman: I Was Blessed to Find Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Matthieu Cioccocini is a 22-year old French who became Muslim a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Raised by a father who doesn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/abcs-of-islam\/divine-unity\/god-allah-muslims-believe\/\">believe in God<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/conversion-stories\/eric-mason-england-former-catholic-convert-to-islam-interviewed\/\">Catholic<\/a> mother who doesn&#8217;t attend church regularly,\u00a0 Matthieu didn\u2019t receive any teachings about religion at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The true beginning of learning about the religion was from his Muslim friends from Morocco, Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Mathew started knowing more about Islam in a football match \u00a0from\u00a0 a member of a Muslim <em>da`wa<\/em>h group. This was the very beginning of an entirely new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/featured\/whether-west-easthow-manage-life-muslim\/\">life as Muslim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly did \u00a0brother Matthieu learn about Islam? How does he see his life as Muslim? What are the challenges that he faces? Does he have a problem being French and Muslim? What is his advice for Muslims and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/featured\/rights-non-muslims-islam\/\">non-Muslims<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In the video here brother Matthieu talks about that \u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tnd0cnJwW_U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC2XLcYXyV7TF9C1kLtK4bbA\">Islam True Religion TV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthieu  is a 22-year old French who became Muslim a few years ago. How did he lfind Islam? Does he have a problem being French and Muslim? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[510,2],"tags":[2442,167,2443,616,2444,910],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-dawah-group","tag-featured","tag-french-muslim","tag-islam-in-france","tag-matthieu-cioccocini","tag-new-muslim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/A-French-Youngman-I-Was-Blessed-to-Find-Islam.png?fit=590%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-bZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}