Islam would have saved Michael Jackson, says brother

Converting to Islam would have saved the life of pop legend Michael Jackson, his brother Jermaine said in an interview to be aired Thursday.

Speaking ahead of the first anniversary Friday of the death of the “King of Pop” at the age of 50 from a prescription drug overdose, he told the BBC that his brother should have left the United States.

“I felt that if Michael would have embraced Islam he would still be here today and I say that for many reasons,” Jermaine Jackson, who is a Muslim, told BBC World Service radio.
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He added: “God is so powerful. He was studying. He was reading a lot of books, because I brought him books from Saudi Arabia. I brought him books from Bahrain.

“I was the one who originally put him in Bahrain because I wanted him to get out of America because it was having a cherry-picking time on my brother.”
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Jackson said his brother was not against converting to Islam.

“All of his security became Muslims because he trusted Islam, because these are people who would lay their lives down and also who were trying to be the best kind of human beings they could possibly be not for Michael Jackson, for Allah,” he said.

“So having those people around, you knew that you would be protected because it is protection from God,” he added.
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See Also

• Michael Jackson likely to convert to Islam, his brother says (Feb. 23, 2007)
• Michael Jackson Confirms Conversion to Islam (Feb. 24, 2007)
• Michael Jackson converts to Islam (Nov. 21, 2008)

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