By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Simon Collis, the British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, converted to Islam. This week Collis and his wife, who is of Syrian descent and is also a Muslim, performed the Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Saudi press has been filled with compliments for Collis.
There has been a ripple effect throughout the rest of the Arabic world.
Collis, in explaining his decision, said that he spent the past 30 years living in Muslim cultures.
Although conversion is a personal matter, Collis' conversion is clearly important to the Arabic world and they are literally holding Collis up as a hero within Islam.
On the other hand, I am certain that people in White Hall, the center of the British foreign office, are very concerned about this very public conversion and the attention it is getting in the press throughout the world.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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