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In 1932, a man named Harry E. Heinkel, a white man living in Los Angeles, California, came across a copy of the Islamic Review in his local library (See the Islamic Review of Aug-1932, page 257)(See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975) and converted to Lahori-Ahmadiyya (Kufr)(See also the Islamic Review of June-July 1932, page 213).

He alleges, that at the time, he was losing his faith in God and was teetering on the edge of agnosticism and atheism. He had found the Bible’s stories so incredibly unbelievable and obscene, and Christians’ inability to live up to the principle of “Brotherhood of Man” so disappointing, that he was no longer able to bring himself to adhere to the Christian religion of his childhood. The discussions of Islam in the Review, however, piqued his curiosity, and he wrote to the editors to ask for more literature. By early November, after receiving a package of materials from Woking, he became very interested in the religion’s principles, and he sent to the magazine a letter expressing as much, which was later published in the magazine’s correspondence pages.

By late November 1931, Harry explained in another published letter, he had come to believe—after re-reading the literature Woking had sent, which included a translation of the Qurʾan by London convert Marmaduke Pickthall—in Islam’s five pillars and he wanted to adopt the faith, though he knew of no Islamic mission in Los Angeles that he might join.

In July and August 1932, Harry had more letters appear in the magazine’s pages, explaining his conversion in more detail and thanking Woking for sending him additional literature. Harry had become so popular in the Review that other Americans were contacting him via the magazine. In the summer of 1932, another Los Angeles reader of the magazine, one George Bohn, wrote to Harry, in a letter published in the Review, telling him that Bohn was part of a small group of Muslim converts in the city who wanted to get together with Harry to start an Islamic mission. Harry of course replied—in a letter that was, again, published in the Review—that he was eager to do this; and a Los Angeles Sunni Muslim convert community began to blossom.

After 1932, Harry E. Heinkel totally disappeared and was never heard from again.

In 1938, Harry E. Heinkel seems to have been working at The Hoover Library and with the SCV Historical Society in Acton, California.

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Links and Related Essay’s

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Conversion_to_Islam_in_the.html?id=DYljCgAAQBAJ

SCVHistory.com | People | Mrs. Herbert Hoover Corrects Record About Her Summers in Acton

https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/pollack0110hoover.htm

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