{"id":434387,"date":"2024-03-11T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=434387"},"modified":"2024-03-11T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:22:39","slug":"us-activist-shaun-king-and-his-wife-embrace-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/us-activist-shaun-king-and-his-wife-embrace-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"US Activist Shaun King and His Wife Embrace Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned United States (US) writer and activist Jeffery Shaun King and his wife Rai King converted to Islam on the first day of Ramzan 1445 AH-2024.<\/p>\n<p>In a live broadcast shared by US-based Professor Khaled Beydoun on Instagram on Monday, Match 11, shows Shaun and Rai pronouncing Shahadah, a testament of faith, with the help of US Muslim scholar and activist Omar Suleiman.<\/p>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"html5\" id=\"arve-html5-\" style=\"max-width:1080px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"arve-embed\">\n\t\t\t<video class=\"arve-video fitvidsignore\" controls controlslist=\"\" data-arve=\"arve-html5-\" onloadstart=\"this.volume=1\" preload=\"metadata\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun.mp4#t=0.1\"><\/video>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ALLAHU AKBAR! What incredible news it is to witness the answer of a prayer and learn that our brother Shaun King <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shaunking?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shaunking<\/a>  and his wife just embraced Islam with @omarsuleiman504 <\/p>\n<p>Alhamdulilah! Had the honor of meeting Br. Shaun at various community and social justice events\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHRpgr1NTR\">pic.twitter.com\/JHRpgr1NTR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hassan Shibly (@HassanShibly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HassanShibly\/status\/1766984627061743896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>44-year-old Shaun is best known for his advocacy of movements associated with the Democratic Party such as Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>In one Facebook post from 2016, Shaun King wrote that he was \u201ca Christian\u201d who was \u201cactually a pastor for nearly 10 years.\u201d In another Facebook post a little more than a year later, Shaun King wrote that he \u201cwas a Christian pastor for nearly 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-434389\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun.webp 1024w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On December 25, he claimed that Instagram banned his account due to his support for Palestine against Israel in the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun, with over six million followers, expressed frustration over Instagram\u2019s ban on him for advocating for Palestinian rights and dignity. He\u00a0has been sharing numerous pro-Palestine posts since October 7, highlighting the destruction in the Gaza Strip and calling for an end to Israel\u2019s brutal war on the territory.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned United States (US) writer and activist Jeffery Shaun King and his wife Rai King converted to Islam on the first day of Ramzan 1445 AH-2024. In a live broadcast shared by US-based Professor Khaled Beydoun on Instagram on Monday, Match 11, shows Shaun and Rai pronouncing Shahadah, a testament of faith, with the help of US Muslim scholar and [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/us-activist-shaun-king-and-his-wife-embrace-islam\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":434390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2576,2521,2199,2517,2573,1291,2578],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-news","8":"category-family","9":"category-featured","10":"category-religion","11":"category-research","12":"category-social-media","13":"category-street-buzz"},"wps_subtitle":"","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun.jpg",1000,560,false],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shaun.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Rija Sohaib","categories_name":["Celebrity News","Family","Featured","Religion","Research","Social Media","Street Buzz"],"title_text":"US Activist Shaun King and His Wife Embrace Islam","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2576,2521,2199,2517,2573,1291,2578&exclude=434387","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434387"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=434387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}