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Sheikh Yusuf Estes (born: Joseph Estes, 1944), is an American Islamic preacher and chaplain from Texas. [2] Estes converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He served as a Muslim chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons during the 1990s, and as a delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the UN in September 2000.
Yusuf Estes was born to Joseph Edward Estes and his wife, Ruth Lois Burger in Cleveland, Ohio in February of 1944. They moved to Texas in December of 1949. Yusuf (nicknamed Skip in later years) was actually a businessman and a missionary type preacher before entering into Islam in July of 1991. He changed his name to Yusuf after becoming Muslim.
The conference was attended by 150 participants from countries around the world, with an audience of about 1,000, mostly Muslims. Speakers included Mohamed Ali Harrath, CEO of Islam Channel, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, political analyst and journalist Yvonne Ridley, Yusuf Estes and Jamal Badawi.
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Islamic scholars and preachers who have spoken at the Global Peace and Unity event have included Zakir Naik, Yasir Qadhi, Yusuf Estes, Jamal Badawi, Timothy Winter, Joel Hayward, Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Muhammad al-Yaqoubi and Tariq Ramadan. Representatives from other faiths including Yisroel Dovid Weiss and Riah Abu El ...
Peace TV was founded on 21 January 2006. One of the first network broadcasts was Zakir Naik's debate on the "Concept of God". [18] The debate was broadcast live on Peace TV. [18]
Islamic views on prisoners of war encompass teachings from the Qur'an and hadith as well as later regulations developed in Islamic jurisprudence.. The historical legal principles governing the treatment of prisoners of war, in shar'iah, Islamic law, (in the traditional madhabs schools of Islamic jurisprudence), was then a significant improvement [citation needed] over the pre-existing norms of ...
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