Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News, 2014-01-08

A 23 year old American singer who fascinated the Arab world after reaching the final three of the talent competition "Arabs Got Talent" has reportedly reverted to Islam.
 
Jennifer Grout, originally from Boston went to Morocco to study both the Amazigh language and Moroccan Arabic when she reportedly recited the Shahada.

“Do you know how to say Shahada in Islam?” the man asked Jennifer, in a video posted on YouTube on Sunday, January 5.

Jennifer replied by reciting the shahada, or declaration of faith, saying, “there is no god but Allah and Muhammad (PBUH) is His prophet.”

In the video, which could not be verified from other sources, Grout appeared with a young man, allegedly her fiancé, and another man in an atmosphere of friendliness and tolerance.

“In Islam, we pray. Do you know how to pray,” the man asked her.

The young man accompanying Jennifer intervened to say that Jennifer knows many facts about Islam. “She knows what you are talking about,” he told the man.

The man went on to ask her if she memorized some Qur’anic verses and Jennifer said yes.

She then began to recite Surah Al Fatiha in a beautiful voice. It appears that Jennifer has no difficulty whatsoever understanding the Amazigh man who posed the questions in Tamazight.

OnIslam tried to contact the singer to get a confirmation on the news, but no reply has been received yet.

The United States is home to a Muslim minority of between six to eight million.

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