A new revision of the book, Muslim Places of Worship was published recently by the Press and Information Office of Cyprus. While I’ve read some (expected) negative hype about it from non-Muslim Cypriots online, Dr. Tarek Radwan, a professor at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo states that, “The present volume highlights the reality of peaceful co-existence that prevailed for centuries between the Christian Greek and Muslim Turkish ethnic communities…”
Although Muslims comprise mainly of Turkish ethnic communities, there are some Greek converts to Islam in Cyprus and the story by Maryam Eustathiou below that was published by IslamOnline.net is proof of it:
Like a Newborn Child – A Catholic Woman Discovers Islam
Being brought up in a Catholic Christian household I always felt the importance of being in a religion, and respecting the will of God. However even from an early age I sensed that the religion I was brought up in was not quite what I expected. My earliest memories bring me to a typical Sunday scene sitting in church and looking around me, not digesting what the priest was saying, and staring at a hall full of statues and paintings of various “religious” scenes and persons.
I always remember asking myself: can this be it?
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