Jun 24, 2010
'Islam would have saved MJ'
LONDON - CONVERTING to Islam would have saved the life of pop
legend Michael Jackson, his brother Jermaine said in an interview
to be aired on Thursday.
Speaking ahead of the first anniversary on 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.
'Why? Because when you are 100 per cent clear in your mind as to
who you are and what you are and why you are and everybody around
you, then things change in a way that's better for you. It's just
having that strength.' 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.' Jackson was found dead in his rented Los
Angeles mansion on June 25 last year, a seismic celebrity death
which triggered a global outpouring of tributes for the eccentric
genius.
On Friday, Jackson fans are expected to pay their respects to their
idol at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the LA suburb of Glendale,
a star-studded cemetery where the singer's golden casket was
entombed last September. -- AFP.
Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/