Belgium: Woman Assists More Than 1000 Become Muslims

Veronique Cools, a 25-year-old Belgian convert to Islam, has helped over 1,000 people accept Islam
in the past 8 years. Cools, who accepted Islam herself at a very
young age after being influenced by her Muslim friends and researching into the religion, turned her home into an Islamic center for Belgian
Muslims seeking to learn more about their religion.
Saying that she herself had to overcome many prejudices when looking into Islam, Cools then
successfully helped her family overcome them too. Now her close family are also Muslims.
‘Prejudices stem from not being introduced to real Islam properly,’ she said as she was preparing
iftar food packets for visiting Muslims to break their Ramadan fasts. ‘As Muslims we need to
explain ourselves to society a lot better.’ The center now has more than 1,000 members, most of them Belgian women, and is open for all
of Belgium’s 50,000 Muslims.