What is it with converts to Islam? Why is it that so many of them turn to violence and hatred? This convert and want to kill attitude is found in almost no other major world religion. Neither converts to Christianity nor Judaism suddenly decide to go off and kill people once they’ve been baptised or been recognised as Jewish by a Beit Din respectively. This is a phenomenon that we see a lot of though when it comes to those who choose Islam.

Earlier this month the Daily Mail had yet another example of a convert to Islam choosing violence and it shows that being brought up in relative affluence is no protection from those Islamic evangelists who may feed on a persons more baser instincts or feelings of low self esteem in order to get them to convert. In this case the individual concerned, Lucas Kinney, the son of a film director who had worked with Stephen Spielberg, came under the influence of Islamic preachers in Austria where he had gone to live with his father.

Lucas Kinney will go down as merely one of a long line of damaged or mad people who find a home in a religion that is becoming ever more mad, bad and thoroughly dangerous to tolerate having around. There are plenty of stories out there of those who convert to Islam either because they are spiritually lost individuals, or those who find in Islam an outlet and an approval for their violent nature and many of these stories so often end up with the convert killing or maiming someone.

Maybe it’s time for us as a society to start distrusting those who convert to Islam a bit more than we do already. After all look at what path they’ve chosen and what that may say about the character of the person who has made that choice? Although in a free society everyone should have the right to follow the deity of their choice, to treat those who choose to follow Islam as equal to those who choose more peaceful paths, is complete folly. We should not more respect those who choose the path of Islam, knowing what we know about it, than we should respect or even trust those who choose to be burglars, rapists or murderers.