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Oliver Stone’s Son Converts to Islam During Visit to Iran

Feb. 14, 2012 4:12pm Billy Hallowell

Sean Stone, right, son of American Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, listens to chief operations officer of Reel Knights Productions, Mellissa Carter as they attend a press conference, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Iran's semiofficial news agency FARS reported that Stone is in Iran to make a documentary film.

Sean Stone, the son of Oscar-winning film director Oliver Stone, reportedly converted to Islam on Tuesday. The younger Stone, 27, was visiting Iran, where he is working on a documentary.

The conversion ceremony, during which Fars news agency claims he became a Shiite Muslim, apparently took place in the Iranian city of Isfahan. During the ceremony, Stone chose “Ali” to be his Muslim first name.

The Tehran Times reports:

He went to the office of Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Nasseri Dowlatabadi in the city of Isfahan on Tuesday and recited shahada, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported.

The shahada is the Islamic profession of the faith, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger.” To convert to Islam, one simply has to recite this while believing it in one’s heart.

Oliver Stones Son Converts to Islam During Visit to Iran

Stone’s mother is a Christian and his father is Jewish, although he claims that the conversion doesn’t mean he will be leaving behind the faith traditions he was raised with.

“The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,” he told AFP via phone. “It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets.”

Stone was in the Middle Eastern nation working on a film about Rumi, a mystic poet. But, for quite some time, has has shown his admiration for the nation’s culture.

The young filmmaker also has a history of defending Iran. Reuters reports:

In an interview with TheWrap at the Toronto Film Festival in September, he supported Iran’s right to a nuclear program as a defense against threats from Israel. He said criticizing the Iranian government is “like someone coming to your house and saying the father shouldn’t hit the kids,” he said. “Who are we to tell them how to rule their country?”

“Iran is ruled by law,” said Stone (pictured with coproducer Melissa Carter in Tehran). “People don’t like Ahmadinejad, but that doesn’t warrant a war or an uprising.”

In addition to directing documentaries, Stone has appeared in a number of his father’s films.

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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:45pm
Oliver Stone, Sean Stone…. AND Ron Paul. All have a fondness for Iran it seems. All three believe that Iran poses NO threat to anyone and should INDEED have a nuclear weapon. It would only be rational to think that Stone, the younger and Ron Paul don’t see Radical Islam as a threat world-wide.

Oliver Stone is a Ron Paul fan (not quite sure about his son… yet… but I’ll get there). I’m thinking the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in that respect.

Both Oliver Stone and Ron Paul think that traitor Pvt Bradley Manning is a hero and patriot. Not sure what Sean Stone thinks about Manning (but I’ll get there too).

Dots… connecting dots… always connecting the dots.

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- Razorhunters
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:05pm
  lying pos
  
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- momrules
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:09pm
  I always read your comments.Very enlightening.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Thank you MOMRULES.
  
  RAZOR. You can do the research on your own. Only takes a couple minutes. You type… “Ron Paul”… you then type whatever “crap” might be associated with Paul (in this instance the Stoned, er, the Stones), and PRESTO! BINGO!
  
  But I already knew this about Oliver Stone and his Valentine… Ron Paul. Now I get to research his son (Sean). I know he’s a fan of Alex Jones… has appeared on his show with all kinds of hokey nonsense being bandied about.
  
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:21am
  @Time: What has Ahmedinejad ever done to you? Personally? Maybe this whole thing is to get people off the Israel Rabies Train (rabid for a strike on Iran) and back on the Reasonable Bus. That maybe, just maybe, all this ‘posturing’ (which of course cannot be independently confirmed) is just that? I see Orwell peeking from behind that curtain over there.
  
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rocktruth
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:39pm
Islamic Circle of North America is working to bring Sharia rule to the U.S.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/islamic-circle-of-north-america-is-working-to-bring-sharia-rule-to-the-us.html

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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:53pm
  Ali Stone said: ““The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,”
  
  1. He never truly understood Christianity OR Judaism… or he would have never uttered those moronic words.
  2. No one is naturally “born” a Christian. Jesus said – “you must be born again”. It is a spiritual birth.
  3. I can’t wait to see how the filth-mongers of Hollyweird react to Ali Stone. Who will reject whom first?
  4. He accepts a raving pedophile lunatic as a “prophet”?
  
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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:04pm
  This is a warning to all you Christian’s who don’t take the word of God seriously. Teach your children the morals of the bible or you will loose them to the forces of darkness. It’s time to wake up!
  
  If you’re not sure about who God is then I highly advise you do your homework now before it’s too late. START HERE: http://gospelmessage.org/
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:07pm
  Wonderful<I think he should move over to Iran and live in one of the cities that have a nuclear facility.In that way he can thumb his nose at Israel.
  These spoiled pukes really fancy themselves as enlightened people.They live in a make beleive world that tells them how important they are.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:11pm
  PLEASE stay there Mr. Stone !!!
  
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- HKS
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Those silver spoon radicals are such a breathe of fresh air and so brain dead from all that liberal smoke they don’t even know which planet there on. Maybe the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree.
  
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- 4XGrace
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Hey! What do you know … I know another way to spell idiot … Sean Stone! … St. Upid strikes again.
  Yeh, this guy NEVER knew ANYTHING about Christianity or Judaism.
  What he learned he probably got from a public broadcasting program “Religion for Dummies”.
  He’ll be killed soon by his new found Muslim brothers for being a blasphemer if he continues spouting that crap. Oh, but wait … One less Muslim … Hey Sean why don’t you go up into one of those minarets they have in Iran and shout that stuff out so they can all hear your take on it?
  
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- QuranIsCorruptAndMuhammadPossessedBySatan
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:35pm
  Islam is the new fad for Liberals, it used to be communism, but since communism has failed useful idiots have to find a new fad and since Islam, especially shia islam, hates the USA, so do Liberals and the far left.
  
  But unlike Communism, you can’t leave Islam. It is a death penalty.
  
  But of course HE IS the son of Oliver Stone. I expect Sean Penn converting soon.
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:26pm
  Bad parenting….
  
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- ICRedifURBlue
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:51pm
  Just another numb skull on my list of places to store used bullets……..
  
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- midwesthippie
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:36am
  …if this is true he is actually to the right of you right -wing religious fundamentalists. that said…pleeeeez stay in iran…don’t come back. thanks
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:39am
  When this naive clown realises that he has made a mistake and tries to quit, he will realise that they are serious about killing apostates.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:45am
  Has young Mr Stone seen this video, I wonder.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQCFGPRsqw
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:49am
  What a huge pile of baloney! ( which I am sure he will not give up even though it is made of pork.)
  Seeking publicity, with evidently no knowledge of the prophet’s life and times, and the murders he himself committed, and the writings of the Koran which call for the purification of the impure Christian and Jewish faiths. What a jerk! Obviously thinks his good looks have made him smart without trying. In some places, what he has said about not abandoning his Jewish or Christian faith could get him killed– if they didn’t know who he was, that is.
  Please, can’t someone follow him around for six months and film him purifying himself and praying 5 times a day? The Prophet demanded this of his followers.
  
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- Jinglebob
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:18pm
  The nut doesn’t fall far from the nut tree.
  
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:38pm
Let’s see who’s next in Hollywood. Madonna?

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- QuranIsCorruptAndMuhammadPossessedBySatan
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:41pm
  So now he has to pray FIVE TIMES a day to a BLACK ROCK located in a cube temple every day.
  
  If he converted to SHIA Islam in Iran…they are considered HERETICS in the majority of Islam.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 11:18am
  Hope Papa is proud of his parenting to this child.
  
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ImaHippyBurning
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:37pm
Good Maybe he will enlist a Jihad on his Dad!

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- rs9
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:49pm
  Yeah lets hope that he brings home a suicide vest and takes out daddy and a bunch of his Hollywood freak friends
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Perhaps he should take a look at his legless Iranian Shia buddy in Bangkok today…..
  
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- Zenzazin
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Look at the kinds of things you write about people you have never met and probably never will. You always accuse the left of being hate-filled, and yet never seem to notice when the vitriol is flowing from your own mouths (or typing fingers, in this case)
  
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- midwesthippie
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:38am
  …avengerk…that is just too good. well said.
  
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- NeoFan
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:39am
  @Zenzapinhead. Stick to what you know, food good. Fire bad.
  
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- Zenzazin
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:17pm
  thanks for further proving my point, ignorant unaware fools
  
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crackerone
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:36pm
Of course he did!

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- QuranIsCorruptAndMuhammadPossessedBySatan
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:38pm
  After all his father IS Oliver Stone, the man who hates the USA and the West.
  
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SweetTexasTea
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:33pm
Probably not a true convert, just wanted to avoid hassles while in Iran! He can change back when filming is done and he’s back in the USA!

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- dmerwin
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:42pm
  In Islamic law that is worthy of a death sentence.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:04pm
  If it was not a true conversion, there is a strong possibility of death squads come after him at some point.
  
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- ProudConservativeinCA
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:32pm
  HMMMMM, is not Islam the religion of Peace….?
  
  I wonder if Tavis Smiley is going to misinform the public and say that the Christians will now send a ” Death Squad ” after Mr. Stone….??? I also understand Mr. Stone, coincidentally enough, is changing is full name to: Barrack Hussein Stone….?
  
  Hollywood Liberal’s are such Cheeky little Rascals aren’t they…..!!!!
  
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- AmeriCat
  Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:47am
  Just wait until he gets tired of his new fad, being a Muslim,
  and wants to leave Islam in the dust.
  
  I think it was in Indonesia, a couple years ago,
  a young man converted to Islam and then wanted to leave the religion.
  Blasphemy! He tried to escape, but was beheaded.
  
  And at this very moment, a young man is in jail
  for tweeting against Muhammed on that pedophile’s birthday.
  He, too, is expected to die for his transgressions.
  
  Your Daddy won’t be able to save you, Sean Stone.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:33pm
Well, that’s coming as no surprise. This kid didn’t have any sort of chance from the start. Of COURSE he would convert. Same with Liam Neeson. Hollywood is FULL of kooks. I am surprised more aren’t converting, as much as they hate America.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:02pm
  Great Hollywood parenting.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Neeson has not converted, he has only said he’s considered it. I’ll be convinced Hollywood has really boarded the crazy train when some famous actress converts.
  
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- Zenzazin
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:31pm
  just because people have a different idea of how to best solve the problems we are facing doesn’t mean they hate America. you’re the hater.
  
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I.Gaspar
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:33pm
The nut doesn’t fall far from the nut tree.
(While you’re there…ask your dad to join you…permanently.

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B-Neil
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:31pm
Thats what weak minded people do. The old proverbial ( LOOK AT ME, I’M SO SPECIAL ). Why would Stones drip be any differant? This little tib-bit of info is going to have a large inpact on our future. I can see the movie now. CARRY ON McDUFF

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shackero
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:31pm
Islam = Death and Oppression.

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Arc
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:30pm
Permanently place his azz on the ” NO FLY List”

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TheObamanation
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:28pm
When will Obama come out of the closet ?

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- itsjustgigi
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:33pm
  What do you mean…I thought he already did!
  
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- paleoman
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:05pm
  Don’t you mean when did he come out of the barn.
  
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momrules
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:28pm
He is either Muslim or he is not. There is no in between.

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:31pm
  You are right, but Stone does not believe there is an in-between either.
  
  When he says, “The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,” he means what a Muslim would call “true” Christianity or Judaism.
  
  Muslims believe that Moses, Jesus and others were authentic prophets of God who essentially taught the Koran, but that the message was corrupted by wicked men and has now been restored by Muhammad.
  
  Stone doesn’t mean that he will now commence Torah study or that he still believes that Christ was God incarnate.
  
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Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:27pm
another brain dead moron to join the ranks of hussein obama…

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13th Imam
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:27pm
The news magazine Iran Today, quoted him as saying, ” I love little boys, and as my “wife” is not allowed to drive and has to wear Mr Omar’s creation’s, I can now beat her at a whim, so she won’t complain.And now I can legally kill infidel’s, and those filthy American’s and the Jews.

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- JayCee
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:17pm
  Will he have to kill his coke snorting dad?
  
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- JayCee
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Isn’t he obligated to kill his Jewish dad and his Christian mom?
  
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Robert-CA
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:26pm
Minus one loon , maybe he just wants to learn the “halal” way to beat up a woman or a wife & then he can upgrade into jihad to get his 72 whores .

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- riseandshine
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:03pm
  It’s probably more like Costanza’s conversion to Latvian Orthodox than genuine conversion.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:14pm
  He was not built upon rock to begin with, obviously.
  
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- Robert-CA
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:49pm
  RISEANDSHINE
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:03pm
  It‘s probably more like Costanza’s conversion to Latvian Orthodox than genuine conversion.
  
  I guess he liked the hats or turban in this case :)
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 9:25pm
  There ya go
  
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SychinLegacy
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:25pm
Why is this newsworthy again? The Blaze is rapidly slipping into MSM levels.

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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:42pm
  Your obviously not a viewer of GBTV.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:58pm
  Uhmm in the 50s thru 70s Hollywood type thought it was chic to declare themselves communists. Nowadays it is chic to declare themselves Muslims. Many people look up to Hollywood type. Look at all the print they sell. All the people buying mags & tabloids can’t all be gapers (looking at a wreck).
  
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- blackstone22
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:33pm
  This is totally newsworthy, it speaks to the lunacy of a generation of spoiled, clueless, entitled Americans.
  If it doesn’t interest you then don’t read it !!
  
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mike_trivisonno
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:25pm
The muslims believe that they can use him as a tool of Jihad. I have to admit, I have no idea who Sean Stone is or why his “for entertainment purposes only” conversion to a faith he does not understand is being offered up now.

Let’s see what sort of dawa they have him say. His own remarks about his conversion reveal he knows nothing about Islam. Not a thing.

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Collbuzz
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:23pm
And so what? Why is this an issue again?

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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:37pm
  The radical Islamists/communists/ socialists (Hollywood Liberals) will:
  · Work together against Israel.
  · Work together against capitalism.
  · Work together to overturn stability.
  
  Their goal is a One World Caliphate.
  
  Islamic Circle of North America is working to bring Sharia rule to the U.S.
  http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/islamic-circle-of-north-america-is-working-to-bring-sharia-rule-to-the-us.html
  
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rocktruth
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:20pm
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4

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- nocomment
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:52pm
  No offense intended, but please, enough with the Bible in the Blaze comments section.
  
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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:56pm
  @nocomment – Just a reminder that if you do not do what the bible says you are looking for trouble.
  
  The only reason why Islam will take over the USA will be the lack of bible in our society.
  
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- nocomment
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:01pm
  I doubt if that’s the ‘only’ reason. There’s probably a few others.
  
  Thanks.
  
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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:09pm
  @ nocomment – it would be the primary reason… But I really can’t think of any other reason.
  
  Any other reason will be a symptom of the primary & root problem.
  
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- rocktruth
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:17pm
  @ nocomment What I meant was it was the lack of living by biblical principles. Or not taking heed the warnings of the bible will be our utter destruction. If we are not a doer of the Word we deceive ourselves.
  
  One more bible verse for you.
  ..let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged. Romans 3:4
  
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DrFrost
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:18pm
The term “christian” means different things to different people. In europe it has a very different meaning than in the U.S. for example. I don’t think Mr. Stone’s understanding of the term agrees with mine. (This is simply because I can’t see how anyone who holds to the teachings of Jesus as represented in the New Testament could convert to islam without abandoning some very fundamental precepts of those teachings.) And I don’t think what he means by “conversion to islam” is what most people in Iran mean by that phrase.

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Redleg
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:18pm
“The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,” he told AFP via phone. “It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets.”
You’ll have a hard time convincing Jesus of this. Muslims believe Jesus was ONLY a prophet.” Jesus said I am the truth, the light, and the way. None come to the father but through me. ”
I wonder if he has to murder his father now since Oliver is Jewish?

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dmerwin
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:16pm
Conversion is conversion, Dumbass.

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hauschild
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:16pm
First question I’d have for this kid is, “Why???”

Ironic how progressives think they’re always ahead of the curve, moving forward in life, but in all actuality, they’re nothing more than backwards hillbillies. I can’t name anything less backwards than Islam – lazy, envious, unclean, the list goes on and on.

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- dmerwin
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:45pm
  They do wipe and eat with opposite hands. And Khomeni decided you could use three stones or pieces of paper or one if one did the job. This was in the eighties and apparently needed instruction from on high on how to wipe your ass.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:56pm
  Sebellius would make a good ayatollah. After sex change operation. She is making up the most detailed rules for our life via the Obama care Law.
  
  He daddy was governor of Ohio & she was governor of Kansas. She was born to the purple.
  
  She might like Islam better because that would give her more power.
  
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kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:16pm
Someone tell this hollywood bozo that they will kill you if you are Christian or Jew. In Stone’s case, he has 2 strikes against him. Does he really think the radical mooslims will let him live if they find out his religious heritage?

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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Yes they would let him live. In the 1st 20 to 40 years of Islam who do you think the converts were? Animists, Christians & Jews.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:33pm
  Satan adds another minion to his fold.
  
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