A London pickle maker was crowned king of a breakaway state in China
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#77AHY)
Bertram "Bertie" Sheldrake ran his family's pickle factory in southeast London, converted to Islam as a teenager in 1903, and took the name Khalid. He founded mosques in Peckham and Dulwich, edited Muslim journals, and once converted a biscuit heiress to Islam aboard a chartered airliner over the English Channel. - Read the rest
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