Terrence Howard Discusses Leaving Islam

Interesting, very rare clip of actor Terrence

Howard speaking about why he left Islam,

the religion.

Did you ever become a Muslim yourself?

Yes. My name was Suleiman. You know,

practiced a lot, did all of that.

For how long?

Up until I was 13.

Up until 13, you were Muslim?

Mm-hmm.

And then how did you walk away from it?

I've talked about this before, but there was

a day I came home, and all of the brothers from the masjid

was over

at the house, and there was this, this brother, um, Yakub.

You know, very kind, uh, loved his scent, uh, loved his nature.

But apparently he had castrated

a wino, a homeless person, for urinating

on the masjid.

He castrated him?

Castrated him.

And, uh, he's sharing this story with you?

He's telling-

Uh, no, no

... everybody knew?

No, my-- all everybody's around, like 13 of the brothers from the

mosque are there because he, Yakub has been arrested, and

they're talking about that. And he-- they were sit-- the argument

was, the conversation was, um, well, he shouldn't have,

you know, defeca- you know, um,

he shouldn't have-

Castrated

... Well, he shouldn't have, uh...

What is the term? I can't-- Desecrate. That was it.

He shouldn't have desecrated the holy temple by

urinating on the mosque. That was what they were talking about.

They weren't talking about the fact that this young man,

or older gentleman, was also a child of God that

may have been lost.

And I was like that--

It was so severe.

You're overhearing this conversation?

Yes.

Or you're in the conversation?

I'm, I'm sitting-- No, I'm in the stairs. And they're in the living room.

So you're not part of the conversation-

No

... the 13 men are having?

I'm just listening.

Got it.

And it could've been 12, uh, but it felt like, uh,

you know, all the seats were taken up.

And so at that moment, I started questioning

Islam in that regard because a,

a God of love, you know, I couldn't see that happening.

I have a que-

That's when Terrence was really young.

I'm sure he'd be very surprised now if he learned all kind of different things

that happened to different individuals who do things like that.

As far as Islam goes, you know, there's different people who will take

your life

because you draw their prophet.

I mean, even if you leave the religion, they get a green light to take your

life. It's pretty wild. But this is definitely a story I never heard.

Never knew Terrence

Howard was a Muslim. Interesting story for sure.

May the Lord rescue him, 'cause we also know

that he allows different spirits to

come into his body for movie roles.

So may the Lord rescue him. Amen.