..Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran
Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary, he told AFP.
"The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with. It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets," he said in a brief telephone call from the central Iranian city of Isfahan, where he underwent the ceremony.
Sean Stone's famous father is Jewish, while his mother is Christian.
The 27-year-old filmmaker did not say why he converted.
According to Iran's Fars news agency, Sean Stone had become a Shiite and had chosen to be known by the Muslim first name Ali.
Sean/Ali Stone has acted in minor roles in several of his father's films, and has directed a handful of documentaries.
He evidently wasn't raised in the tenants of Chrisitanity or Judaism.
Brantigny
Well, if he was raised in the tenets of Christianity he would hardly be sympathetic to the Jewish faith, which is the antithesis of Christianity. I suspect he had very little upbringing at all, or if he had it is likely the Jewishness of his father predominated.
ReplyDeleteBut going from being a Jew, which is one unbaptized, to a Muslim, which is another one unbaptized, leaves him still in a spiritual void, to say the least. I wonder what type of Christian his mother was.