White Muslim

"It seemed the height of perversity: In response to the horrific September 11th attacks, one young American decided to convert to Islam." "And when, by chance, reporter Brendan Bernhard came upon this young man leaning on his cab outside a storefront mosque on New York's Lower East Side, he was struck by the very sight of him: Charles was a handsome, blue-eyed Californian dressed in an all-white tunic, with a big smile and charming manner ... preaching a particularly severe form of Islam." "Intrigued, Bernhard plunged into the story. Were people like Charles, or like John Walker Lindh - the…