Was Andrew Tate's Conversion To Islam Just Another Scheme
Recent oversaturation of coverage on Andrew and Tristan Tate has many people inquiring about just exactly who these brothers are; many seem surprised that they’d not heard of them until their arrest.
Originally published by Haley Kennington for RAIR Foundation USA, March 17th, 2023.
Tate's controversial background
Andrew Tate was born to mother Eileen Tate, and father, Master International Chess Champion Emory Tate, on December 1, 1986, in Washington, D.C., but he grew up in a borough named Bedfordshire -Luton, England.
Emory Tate started coaching Andrew at 3, and Andrew claims that he won the championship title in Indiana by the age of 5 against a 16-year-old opponent. However, RAIR has been unable to find any record to support Andrew’s claim. Chess was not as popular in England, and Tate soon shifted his focus to kickboxing, where he excelled as well. By 2008 “King Cobra” Tate was ranked as Britain’s 7th-best light heavyweight kickboxer by the International Sport Kickboxing Association.
Tate was thrust into the public eye in 2016 when he appeared on the 17th edition of the British reality TV show Big Brother, which garnered many new followers. However, after only six days on the show, Tate’s erratic behavior, both on set and in his private life, would cause the production team to give him the boot. During Tate’s brief appearance on the show, he displayed both racist and homophobic remarks, but a video of Tate hitting a woman with a belt is what ultimately caused Tate to be released from filming. Tate has claimed several things about what appear to be violent acts against women, including “role-playing,” BDSM, and overtly stating it's a successful way to control women. However, the woman in the video claims it was consensual.
“I said, 'Tell the camera that I beat you because you don’t do as I say.'” - Andrew Tate
Tate claims he was “trying to teach respect” to young men with his courses and presence on social media, but in 2019 the video above resurfaced and once again made its rounds online.
In April 2022, the Tate brothers were accused of holding women against their will and forcing them to work as cam-girls in their home in Romania. After an investigation of human trafficking and rape charges by DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism), the Tate brothers were cleared of any wrongdoing.
By December of 2022, Andrew and Tristan Tate, along with two females, were arrested on suspicion of forming an organized crime group and human trafficking. Oddly enough, it was reported at the time that Andrew doxed his location in a video clip showing Tate eating pizza from a Jerry’s Pizza box after an online spat with WEF darling Gretta Thornberg.
Over the past several months, there has been lots of chatter online about the Tate brothers, including a claim that Andrew had cancer at one point. Alleged victims of the brothers also had text messages leaked which appear to show the women were making up their claims, but these have been heavily edited by fans, with several different versions now available. So whether or not there is any legitimacy to these claims is still up in the air.
The most recent update on the Tate brothers comes from The Sun, which reported today that the Tates' release date appeals they have both been denied and will remain incarcerated.
Conversion to Islam, Trashing of Christianity
The Tate brothers' influence on men is not limited to just trying to acquire wealth and beautiful women. In a November 2022 interview with Zuby, host of 'Real Talk with Zuby' podcast, Andrew Tate explains why he converted to Islam. Zuby reminds Tate of how he was very vocal about being an atheist in 2019 and asked him to explain his journey from atheism to “cucked Christianity” to being a practicing Muslim.
“Christianity and Islam have a lot in common. They worship a lot of the same people,” Tate says. “When I look at Christianity in its current form, I don’t think that they can be right in terms of their interpretation of God because if they are correct, God would give them the strength to defend themselves, and they don’t. Christianity doesn’t mean anything anymore; if the Christian interpretation of God was correct, then God would be giving them strength to resist, but they don’t resist anything. I don’t believe Christians have preserved a single thing in modern times.”
Andrew tells Zuby that seeing a TikTok three weeks before the Zuby interview featuring the first drag-queen Methodist preacher sealed the deal for his conversion. “If you have a belief system that nobody will fight to defend, then you don’t have beliefs. If nobody fights to defend it, it goes away.”
Andrew continues, “There is one religion on the planet today in which people stand up for the rules they stick by, the rules they refuse to be mocked, and they refuse to completely throw away their values and belief systems under the guise of tolerance because they don’t want to be tolerant of everything. They said no, we’re not tolerant of everything because when you’re tolerant of everything, you have no morality. That’s what we talked about earlier. Baseline morality means there are some things you’re intolerant of because you’re a moral person. So to be moral, you have to be intolerant to a degree. There’s one religion on the planet, and that’s Islam. So if I’m going to worship God in a way that is true to my own personal beliefs, also what I understand about the world, what I understand about strength, what I understand about defending ideals, then there’s only one religion on Earth I can respect. I can’t respect Christians anymore.”
Tate says Christians allow themselves and their religion to be mocked constantly and that Christians are cowards for allowing it. “I don’t believe God would allow you to sit there and be such a coward.”
“There’s only one religion left on the planet. That’s Islam, that’s it,” Tate declares.
In addition, Andrew was photographed holding a Quran shortly after the Zuby interview on January 26, 2023.
