Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad an Imam
He was born 1949 in Egypt and he was for more than twenty years member of a fundamentalist Islamic group “da”wa el tabligh”, which actively proselytized non-Muslims but strictly opposed violence. In 1994, he published, Islam: the Religion, a 500-page book reviewing the traditional beliefs and dogmas of Islam. Bahaa led a mosque community in Al-Haram, in the Giza area adjacent to Cairo and was a former sheikh.
He became frustrated with Islam and began to question certain Islamic tenets. A theological discourse with a Christian led him to conduct an intensive study of Christian Scripture, after which he converted to Christianity in 2005.
On April 6, 2005, el-Akkad was arrested by the State Security Intelligence (SSI) For becoming a Christian, but finally released from prison in 2007.
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