Top 15 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Muslim

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8. Akon

Akon was born Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam in St Louis, Missouri, and spent most of his childhood in Senegal, before moving to New Jersey at the age of seven.

He is a very wealthy man, an owner of a diamond mine in South Africa, and claims to have three wives, like any other good (and wealthy) Muslim.

Akon also claims to be a spiritual man, although his music videos portray explicit content and sometimes offend other religious groups, as is the case with video for “Sexy Chick” featuring a statue of Buddha and dancers rubbing up against the singer.

Buddhists were so appalled that Akon issued a statement which read, “[I] am a spiritual man, so I can understand why they are offended”.