Official statistics report that Muslims constitute approximately 5% of the population of Europe today, but this number is expected to increase significantly in the next thirty years. The European countries, Kosovo and Albania, will include the most Muslims.
Frank Henry Ribéry was born in 1983 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. He showed a talent for football at the age of 7, so his father enrolled him in a local football club. He went on to become one of the most prominent players in France.
Daniel Moore was born in Oakland, USA, in 1940. He was talented in writing poetry from an early age. During the sixties, he became one of the most prominent young poets in America, and everyone predicted a great future for him.
The story of a former Marine, Richard McKinney, from America, will continue to inspire many people around the world. He turned from a fanatic, who planned to kill two hundred Muslims, to one of the most prominent advocates of Islam in the United States.
Knud Holmboe, born in 1902 in Horsens, Denmark, was interested in religion and philosophy in his youth, and he converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1921. In 1924, he traveled to Morocco seeking deeper religious knowledge.
Zaid Shakir was born in 1956 in California, USA as Ricky Daryl Mitchell to a multi-ethnic Christian family. His poor background instilled in him ethics, cooperation, mercy, the desire for social change, and economic justice.
Murad Hoffmann, born a Catholic in 1931 in Bavaria, Germany, joined an anti-Nazi group at an early age. He studied law at Harvard University. In 1961, he joined the German Foreign Service and worked for the German Consulate in Algeria.
Cat Stevens, born in London in 1948, was the son of a Swedish mother and a Greek father. He went to a Catholic primary school before he began his successful musical career at the age of 18 as a singer and rock music songwriter.
Ingrid Mattson, a University of Waterloo graduate, was born to a Catholic family. In 1986, she befriended Muslims when she was a visiting student in Paris and embarked on a journey to study Islam upon hearing the recitation of the Quran.
Alphonse Etienne Dene was born in Paris in 1861 AD and was the son of a prominent judge. He went to Art school in Algeria in 1884 AD, where he made Muslim friends and felll in love with the Arabic language and Arab traditions. After several trips to Algeria, he decided to settle in BouSaada. In 1913, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Nasreddine. This caused uproar among the French artistic circles and he was accused of treason. He performed Hajj in 1929 and became known as Hajj Nasreddine.
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