In a matter of appearance, Kai Luhr looks the most different. Kai who prostrate among other bearded men dressed in white tunics when bent in the direction of Mecca, looks clean with a clean-shaven face. He was wearing jeans and a gray jacket.
It may be more suitable present in association Church next. However obvious, he understands how to run the five daily prayers. He also did bow and prostrate and pray in Arabic. "God hears those who praise Him", and they fell down again, standing, bowing again, so to sit down and do a greeting tahiyat end.
Kai Luhr is a physician practice in Germany. He converted to Islam with his wife two and a half years ago. Since then he changed his name to Kai Ali Rashid, while his wife turned into Katrin Aisha Luhr.
Both couples had a chance to appear in a television interview. In an interview Katrin Luhr said before was honored in the form of guidance to Islam, he felt his soul is empty. He claimed to go to church from time to time but failed to find the answer he was looking for. Now he claimed never find excitement like this before, also the answer to the question in his mind. He also enjoyed any beneficial changes that he felt after embracing Islam.
While Kai Luhr said he had a big impression with a logical and rational nature of the answers that he acquired so he knows Islam first.
Now the 43-year-old man was regularly attending Friday prayers at the mosque in Frechen, near Cologne, where he congregation along with Moroccan immigrants, Palestinians and two other Germans who also converted to Islam - a former boxer, the other a technician. "You will meet with little original German-born Muslims in any mosque in the days now," said Luhr,
A book contains studies on Islamic life in Germany menukilkan little story of the German doctors. The study gives a beam of light on a phenomenon that may be surprising for people with negative stereotypes of Islam in Germany, where religion was associated as terrorism, forced marriages and honor killings.
In Germany, about 4,000 people converted to Islam in just one year from July 2004 to June 2005. The study, financed by the German Interior Minister and conducted by the Institute of Muslims to Islam Archive Germany, revealing the number of Germans who converted to Islam increased four times higher than in previous-years.
Most of them are turning to Islam, perform on their own awareness and desire. Many of them are college graduates and middle-class citizens, like Kai Luhr.
Baptized and raised as a Christian, Kai majored in medicine at the university and opened a general physician practice. He later specialized in the treatment of naturopathik. Pendapataan Kai arguably very good.
Luhr then married Katrin, a professional dancer and they were moved into an apartment together. However, at some point, the couple realized that something was missing. "When there are critically ill people come to my office after a great initially but becomes fragile, it makes you sometimes feel discouraged," said Luhr. He was encouraged to learn more about Christianity, Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. But he still did not find an answer.
Luhr shift process arguably nearly typical. Many people are turning to Islam first Christian communities in particular buddy started having doubts about their faith, says a priest Berlin, Mohammed Herzog, a senior church became a Muslim in 1979.
The number of German-speaking Muslims in the mosque also increased. "Still 10 years ago, the average number are turning to Islam every year about 50 people, - now that number doubled," he said. "Only rarely those who embraced Islam before that was an atheist," he said.
A Christian fundamentalist, Wohlrab-Sahr, giving perspective that Islam makes a person stand out in the crowd in the level is quite striking. Moreover Islam into the spotlight after a lot of media review of the Muslim debates that often occur. "Islam is seen as a genuine alternative," said Wohlrab.
In the book mentioned, they - the educated middle class - who converted to Islam because of the desire itself tends to appreciate "lucid and clear rules of conduct" that is provided in the Qur'an. As Luhr, who is now always carry the mat in the car Alfa Romeo GT her. What is the reason Kai Luhr? One of these values in Western society he saw slumped so badly. "In Islam, the values are still upheld for a reason," he said.
But the funny thing is, while ironically, the Germans are turning tends to run a more disciplined than the rituals that have become Muslims since birth. "Some are born Muslims are more liberal."
A lawyer's office in Hamburg gives an interesting example of it. Nils Bergner, 36-year-old to God five times a day. German men have a Turkish colleague, Ali Ozkan, who is also a Muslim. Both visited the mosque together. But only in the office of the German men, the mat is created actually 5 times a day. "I could not," I Ozkan. "The first prayer at 6:00 - still too early,"
More recently, they were invited to a dinner party. Dessert was tiramisu served mouth. Bergner reluctant because there is alcohol in the recipe. "I said, oh you can not be serious," Ozkan said. "Eat it, I say. It's just to taste". But until the end of the event, Bergner left the table with tiramisu untouched.
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