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FAH1223 wrote:shes not somali, her parents converted to islam in 1989

shaamboo wrote:

FAH1223 wrote:shes not somali, her parents converted to islam in 1989

sources ??

Both of her parents, Alooah and Tariq, grew up in the city. Neither was raised Muslim.

The daughter of an engineer and a high school teacher, Alooah was raised as Karen Aloo Humphrey and attended St. John's Congregational Church. In ninth grade she started going out with Charles Cross, a bright and athletic teenager with an endearing sense of humor. They eventually went their separate ways, not reconnecting until Cross moved back to the area in the late 1980s, some two decades later.Continued...

He went looking for Karen, and found her - sort of. "I could see she had changed a bit," he recalled with a wry smile. "The attire was different."

She was now Alooah, having converted to Islam in 1975. She was, to say the least, a busy woman. She had six children, three girls followed by three boys, ranging from 13-year-old Tahira to 4-year-old Yusuf. She home-schooled all of them, having become disenchanted with the local public schools after teaching in them for four years. She also ran Alooah's Family Daycare out of her home (still going strong after 30 years). What's more, she had recently been widowed, her husband, Jamal Abdul-Ali, having succumbed at age 43 to pneumonia.

Into this world stepped Cross, who had been living for years in New York and Florida, with, he acknowledges, a lack of direction. "At that time, my life was in question," he says. "I knew that I needed something different. She said, 'You think you might ever embrace Islam?' "

In 1989, he recited the Shahadah (the Islamic creed) and became Tariq Abdul-Qaadir. He and Alooah were married that year. In November 1990, they had their only child, a girl named after the Queen of Sheba - Bilqis.

shaamboo wrote:

sheekh-Farax-zero wrote:iam not proud of her,,, coz female basketball player is un islamic

i bet you she is more muslim than u r when was the last time u prayed or did something in the name of your religion

sheekh-Farax-zero wrote:

shaamboo wrote:

sheekh-Farax-zero wrote:iam not proud of her,,, coz female basketball player is un islamic

i bet you she is more muslim than u r when was the last time u prayed or did something in the name of your religion

wallaah,, i pray since i was 13 till now.

Mataan_Ciideed wrote:the best basketball female player in somalia was a dhulbahante woman!.

Mataan_Ciideed wrote:siren

yes, i heard that one of the commentators lost control and started commenting about her good looks instead of the actual game!.