French Rapper To Surprise Fans With Wearing Long Hijab in A TV Show.

French Rapper To Surprise Fans With Wearing Long Hijab in A TV Show.

In the midst of a national debate in France about the attitude of the veil, the French rapper has stunned fans by announcing converted to Islam and chose to wear the hijab.

Mélanie Georgiades, known as the Silence, the audience has been through what you describe as a "complete transformation" of the portrait of her before 2009. Silence also launched a book on his journey to discover Islam.

Since 2009, the Silent had been absent from the stage, and opt for a more active religious study. But recently the French rapper made his first television appearance with his new image.

Silence that appears in an exclusive interview with the TV station TF1, to talk about past experiences with drugs and was in a mental hospital until he finds "peace of Islam." Words rapper who discovered Islam when saw her perform prayers.

Shut up, said he had been married for over a year and now a new mother, away from his past. In a TV interview, he said he "converted to Islam is the result of personal conviction, after understanding the religion and reading the Quran."

When asked about wearing hijab in France, a country that has banned the niqab, he said: "I believe that I live in a tolerant society, and I do not feel hurt by criticism, but with insults and false stereotypes and judgments."

Asked by the host about why she was wearing a headscarf while many Muslim women do not wear them, and felt not a religious obligation, he replied: "I see it as a divine command or divine suggestion, it brings joy to my heart, and for me this is enough."

Discussing how his life like before converting to Islam, Still said: "I am very well known and I have what every famous person who was looking for, but I always cry bitterly alone in the house, and this is what I felt was not a fan.

He added: "I was addicted to drugs, including narcotics and hallucinating admitted to a psychiatric hospital to recover, but this was in vain until I heard one of my Muslim friends say, 'I will pray for a while and it will come back,' so I told him that I wanted to pray. "

Given time, Silence said: "it was the first time that I touched the floor with his head, and I have a strong feeling that I had never experienced before, and I believe now that kneeling in prayer (salat), should not be made to anyone other than Allah. "

Silence said that he went to Mauritius to study the Koran, and have a better understanding of Islam, found during rehatnya about Islamic tolerance.