{"id":1175530,"date":"2022-08-12T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/my-conversion-is-not-to-impress-anyone-i-have-always-loved-islam-akuapem-poloo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:44:56","slug":"my-conversion-is-not-to-impress-anyone-i-have-always-loved-islam-akuapem-poloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/my-conversion-is-not-to-impress-anyone-i-have-always-loved-islam-akuapem-poloo\/","title":{"rendered":"My conversion is not to impress anyone, I have always loved Islam &#8211; Akuapem Poloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"My conversion is not to impress anyone, I have always loved Islam - Akuapem Poloo\" title=\"My conversion is not to impress anyone, I have always loved Islam - Akuapem Poloo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Actress Akuapem Poloo says despite the doubts raised over her conversion to Islam she is committed to the religion.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, she was not forced to become a Muslim nor is she doing this to attract attention or impress people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a video posted on her YouTube page, the actress said that she will maintain her name Rosemond Alade Brown and her newly acquired name.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ChIDXNpjhKQ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>She will also keep her nickname \u2018Sexy Poloo\u2019 because despite her covering up as Islam requires of women she still is sexy and will dress accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son is nine years and he is a Muslim. I got pregnant for a Muslim guy in 2012 and gave birth in 2013, that should tell you that I know what I am doing. I have always loved Islam so I am not impressing human beings for anything, I can only impress Allah,\u201d Akuapem Poloo said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ChHGwJpDgU8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>She added that \u201cMy mallam who helped me convert told me that I can still keep my full name on social media but I can just add my Muslim name to it. I am still keeping Sexy Poloo. I will cover myself with clothes but I am still sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Akuapem Poloo took her followers on social media by surprise after announcing a change in religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3B2ACiNLs9o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akuapem poloo Explain why she converted to Muslim\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3B2ACiNLs9o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The actress took to her Instagram page to reveal that she has converted from Christianity to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Akuapem Poloo\u2019s post came with some pictures of her with some persons who seemingly helped her with her journey.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Since her announcement, Akuapem Poloo said she has been receiving calls non-stop from family and friends either questioning her decision or probing deeper.<\/p>\n<p>She called on people to stop judging her and her posts since converting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She explained that she is still new to the religion and is yet to be fully acquainted with the ways of a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/my-conversion-is-not-to-impress-anyone-i-have-always-loved-islam-akuapem-poloo\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Akuapem Poloo says despite the doubts raised over her conversion to Islam she is committed to the religion. According to her, she was not forced to become a Muslim nor is she doing this to attract attention or impress people. Speaking in a video posted on her YouTube page, the actress said that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8474,16048,2724,11754,8750,8476],"class_list":["post-1175530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-akuapem","tag-conversion","tag-impress","tag-islam","tag-loved","tag-poloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}