Trans nonbinary tiktoker found religion and might want to convert to Islam. Who wants to tell she/he/they? pic.twitter.com/lS8BY9HYHH

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 26, 2023

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The resistance in Gaza has profoundly resonated with Australian women, leading to a wave of religious conversions in Melbourne. In the past month alone 30 people have been embraced Islam. #Australia#Women#Gaza#Muslim#Islam#Melbourne#Resistance#Convert pic.twitter.com/APwB7pujR4

— Yeni Şafak English (@yenisafakEN) December 1, 2023

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Progressives (including progressive Christians) pathologized Christianity as a sexist, oppresive, racist, white supremacist, bigoted religion.

Now Islam (which is far more patriarchal and anti-lgbt than Chrstianity) is the religion they turn to.

Here's what happened.... pic.twitter.com/431NK4dskg

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 28, 2023

There is no doubt that much of the social media portion of this story is just attention-seeking and trying to shock others. It is a direct result of our educational institutions having preached the bulls**t gospel of colonization and decolonization that a non-trivial number of young people, particularly that variety of young woman that we increasingly find at the center of every violent protest from the George Floyd riots and Antifa attacks of 2020 to the pro-Hamas demonstrations of today, are using conversion to Islam as a way of signaling that they support the oppressed. Never mind the obvious role of Islam in colonization, conquest, and oppression.

Quite honestly, one would have to look long and hard to find a more aggressive and resilient colonial and imperial power than Islam because it didn't content itself with controlling territory but focused on controlling men's minds.

The Daily Mail examined this phenomenon in a story with the epic headline,” Millennials and Gen-Z women are sharing their conversion to Islam in the wake of Israel-Hamas war, with 'leftist queer gremlin' from Boston among those TikToking her journey.

Among those sharing their journey is a self-described 'leftist queer gremlin' named Alex, who recently purchased a copy of the Quran - even though most interpretations of Islam take a dim view of LGBT relationships.

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Alex was encouraged to convert after seeing TikToks by Megan Rice, another recent convert.

Rice posted on October 20 that she planned to read the holy book for the first time.

'It just seems that Palestinians have this ironclad faith even in the face of losing quite literally everything,' she told her then 400,000 followers.

 Recently, Hoover fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared on Fox News’ "America’s Newsroom," where she warned young women about the ramifications of their decisions.

You are converting to throwing away your freedoms as a woman," Ali told Dana Perino on Monday. "Islamic scripture, Islamic law, Sharia law and Islamic practice is crystal clear about the position of women, and it's inferior to men. Your testimony is half that of a man. Your husband can beat you. You have absolutely no freedom.

Everything is about your guardian having authority over you. First your male father, and then later on your male husband, and if those aren't even available, even your own male son has authority over you," she continued. "So if that's what they want to revert to, good luck with that.

I don’t think either the “they are freaks” or the “they don’t know what they are getting into” arguments have any particular power.

Politically, Ms. Ali is viewed by the left and Muslims as someone who abandoned her culture for that of the colonizer and is something of a quisling for her continuing hostile, though completely valid, critiques of Islam. Where her warning falls short, in this case, is that the freaky part of the Islamic convert group knows they are cosplaying. They have no intention of living an Islamic life. They are doing this to shock people and as an exercise in virtue signaling. They know they can leave Islam anytime they wish because they don’t live in Muslim-majority communities. A husband will never rule over them because they are not really marriageable.

Dismissing them all as freaks is dangerous because it causes us to lose sight of the attraction that Islam holds for people seeking some meaning and structure in their lives.

The hyper-sexualization of our culture has destroyed the respect that should exist between men and women. The “hook-up” culture on college campuses has made the teenage boy's dream of casual sex without any real effort or emotional attachment, something of a norm. Indeed, we read about the expectation that a couple have sex before deciding to date to confirm their sexual compatibility.

There are other deeper wounds in our culture that hit women hardest. Over 40 percent of children are born to single mothers; when divorce is figured in, about 50 percent of kids will spend time in a single-parent household. Over 25 percent will be raised without a father in the house. Even that is nebulous, because the "father" can be an unmarried woman's boyfriend with little or no attachment to her children.

We know that most children only have a passing connection with their father. Studies show that the average school-age boy has about 30 minutes per week of one-on-one conversation with their father. The average father spends less than two hours per week in recreational activities with their kids, and less than seven hours per week in any child-related activity.

This is not accidental. The near universality of no-fault divorce, the end of any social stigma associated with out-of-wedlock births, and government "social safety net" programs that punish family formation have all contributed to a situation where kids growing up without a stable homelife and with a conveyor belt of "boyfriends" passing through their lives is so common as to be unremarkable.

The absence of an involved father, the lack of parents modeling a healthy male-female relationship, and the cultural pressure to look and act like a backup dancer in a rap video, leaves many girls adrift. When you add to that the feminist pressure of “having it all,” it is easy to see why the order and stability of family life under Islam is attractive.

Just like the flurry of young women who fled Europe and the United States to marry ISIS fighters, one can't help but wonder if some psycho-sexual yearning wasn't activated by the October 7 videos of masculine (at least by the standard of what I see today) Hamas terrorists riding motorcycles to do battle with the evil forces of Western imperialism.

There is also the whiff of a search for a silver bullet or magic potion to deal with all their problems. As though by becoming Muslim, they will find peace and certainty and security. This irony is that the stable life these women seek in Islam is available as an observant Christian and has been for centuries, but within the context of a much more egalitarian structure than Islam permits. Christianity just isn't new and shiny to them.

The cratering of Christianity's appeal to the young is a scandal. Way too many parents don’t go to church, they don’t take their kids to church, and they don’t provide religious instruction. If a child is not raised in a home that exhibits Christian values, you can't be shocked when they proceed to lead a dissolute lifestyle and develop a contempt for Christianity. Many Christians make no effort to share their faith—one of the recurring themes in the conversion TikToks is a Muslim handing a questioning non-Muslim, I hesitate to say, Christian, a copy of the Koran—and many Christian denominations discourage conversions of Muslims, Buddhists, etc., because of the rift it may cause in their families.

It's probably not a coincidence that the burst of "I just read the Koran" TikToks preceded the "I became a Muslim" TikToks; see TikTokers Are Now Going Nuts Over the Quran.

It is easy, and somewhat enjoyable, to mock the freaks on TikTok becoming Muslim. But we can’t lose sight of the fact for every hirsute fake man who shrieks about their joy in being a Muslim for the next week or so, there is a young woman who is totally lost in morally disordered culture who will convert for real. She will lose her freedom, and if she is a baptized Christian, the denial of Christ that accompanies conversion to Islam will cost her the hope of Salvation.