{"id":3230,"date":"2012-02-15T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2012-02-15T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:45:54","slug":"sean-stone-oliver-stones-son-converts-to-islam-during-iran-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/sean-stone-oliver-stones-son-converts-to-islam-during-iran-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Stone, Oliver Stone’s Son, Converts To Islam During Iran Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. documentary maker Sean Stone holds a press conference in Tehran on Sep. 8, 2011. The son of triple Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, who annoyed Iranians with his 2004 movie ‘Alexander,’ was in Iran to make arrangements for a documentary. (Photo credit: BEHROUZ MEHRI\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sean Stone, son of famed director Oliver Stone, is now a Muslim.<\/p>\n

According to the Agence France-Presse, the 27-year-old filmmakerconverted to Islam while working on a documentary in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Tehran Times<\/em><\/a>, which relays a report from the Fars News Agency, Stone on Tuesday recited\u00a0shahada<\/a>, the Muslim profession of faith that is the first pillar of Islam, at a Shia cleric’s office.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Al-Basheer<\/em>\u00a0magazine<\/a>, the shahada creed translates to English as “I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.”<\/p>\n

But Stone maintained that his acceptance of Islam should not be seen as a renunciation of other faiths.<\/p>\n

“The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,”\u00a0Stone told AFP by telephone on Tuesday<\/a>. “It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets.”<\/p>\n

“Passport,” a blog published by\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/em>,\u00a0notes that this isn’t Stone’s first time Iran<\/a>. In September, he\u00a0spent a week<\/a>\u00a0in the country working on a documentary about the poet\u00a0Rumi<\/a>,\u00a0according to the\u00a0Tehran Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon his return, Stone spoke about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president,\u00a0in an interview with The Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He did come to America to extend a hand. And there’s a lot of mistranslation, literally, I’ve seen it. Ahmadinejad will say something and it will be mistranslated,\u201d\u00a0he told Sharon Waxman<\/a>. “A lot of this is bullshit, mistranslation. It’s an aggressive attitude on both parts, mostly on the American side.”<\/p>\n

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