A growing number of young, progressive Western women are converting to Islam, citing the Israel-Hamas war as motivation for the conversion – and they're documenting their journey on social media.

Yet Islam continues to attract female converts in Western European countries. For many, the trigger is marriage to a Muslim man. Prague, 18 May 2004 (RFE/RL) -- "I was brought up in Ireland in a ...

I knew that committing to this faith would be controversial to my family, friends and the Western community ... and friends didn't know we had converted to Islam and we felt they wouldn't ...

What part of the Western lifestyle do you think I'm going ... In the year after 9/11, 8,000 US women converted to Islam, according to projections from the Hartford Institute for Religious Research.

Dr Seleem has helped 10 northern Tasmanians convert to Islam since his mosque opened last year, nine from traditional Western backgrounds. He said the mosque community was at least 700 strong.

For many centuries, Jews were forced, upon threat of death, to convert to Islam ... enemies like Saudi Arabia – Islam incentivizes violence against the Western world and against Jews in particular.

"It is the anger towards the Western influence ... Some non-Muslims convert to Islam to access Bumiputera rights — or to be able to marry a Muslim. Non-Muslim parents usually cannot have ...