"Arab civilization - that sounds like a good idea"

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Something I find kind of weird is even though Islam is fairly friendly to converts, converts between different branches of Islam are quite rare. Even in countries that have significant populations of both Shia and Sunni. Even Muslims in Western countries don't seem to. There are probably far more cases of non-Muslims converting to Islam than a Muslim converting between branches.

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Conversion between different types of Christianity is actually extremely common. Like even just amongst American political figures you can name a ton of Catholic turned Protestant and Protestant turned Catholic. Not many involving Orthodox but they aren't as common in the US.

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So what about the many Western converts to Islam? Clearly any branch of Islam doesn't coincide with their "ethnic identity". Hell look at my Congressman for a textbook example, I think he's Sunni, but he was raised Catholic, so he clearly isn't from a "Sunni family" or "Shia family".