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No confirmation of Mike Tyson's reported conversion to Islam
UNDATED. June 20: Mike Tyson is attending Muslim prayer services and taking Instruction In the
religion In prison. Contrary to published reports, however, he has not converted to Islam, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of North America said on Friday, reports AP.
Kamran Memon, an assistant editor of Islamic Horizons magazine, said a Muslim outreach volunteer named H Karriem Abdullah has seen Tyson at Islamic prayer services each Friday and attending lessons about Islam.
"He Is going to the lessons and participating tn Friday prayer, but he has not yet become a Muslim." Memon said in a telephone interview from the his organization's headquarters In Plainfield. Ind.
The New York Daily News on Friday cited Black Muslim minister Bilal Muhammad as saying Tyson became a Muslim "two or three weeks ago" at the Indiana Youth Center In Plainfield. The former heavyweight champion is serving a six-year sentence there for his rape conviction.
The newspaper. said Muhammad, a former boxing - promoter, claimed he was told of Tyson's conversion by a Muslim prisoner Who learned of It from the leader of a Muslim inmates' group.
Memon said Tyson has not
the prison for a Muslim diet free of pork.
"If prisoners ask for a change in diet for religious preference reasons, we do grant that." Moore said That's about the only way we’d know of any change in his religious beliefs."
The Rev Jesse Jackson last year baptized Tyson, and the Neshlville, Tennessee-based National Baptist Convention USA Inc and black ministers tn Indianapolis spoke out In Tyson's support during hls trial.
yet publicly professed his be lief in Allah and his prophet Mohammed, the step by which one converts to Islam.
Indiana Department of Corrections spokesman Kevin Moore said prison officials were not aware of any change In Tyson's Religious affiliation. He said Tyson has not asked
That's not true. I don t be Heve that at all," the Rev Stay R Shields of the Pilgrim Baptist Church tn Indianapolis said when told of Tyson's reported conversion
Tyson did not mention any religious conversion In an hourlong Interview with CBS ’ correspondent Ed Bradley televised Thursday night on the network's "Street Stories" programme.
Brad Wilkinson, publications editor at the Islamic Center of North America in Plain field, said he had also heard unverified reports that Tyson had become a Muslim. He referred inquiries to Imam Jamil A)-Amin in Atlanta.
AI-Amin said any statements on Tyson's religious beliefs would have to come from Tyson himself, and he would not discuss the matter further, according to a spokesman who identified himself as Abdullah.
Moore said Tyson could not be reached by telephone tn prison. Tyson has not responded to written interview requests from the Associated Press.
Tyson s promoter. Don King, could not be reached for comment Friday. John Solberg, a spokesman for King's boxing camp In Orwell. Ohio, said he was not aware of any change In Tyson’s religion.
Tyson was convicted Feb 10 of raping a Miss Black America contestant when he was in Indianapolis last summer. .