According to this post on the Islamica website. Dave Chappelle was spotted making Jummah (friday prayers) at a mosque today in NYC. Although all over the web it was being said that he has gone AWOL and had checked himself into a mental health institution in South Africa in late April.

When I first heard the news I thought:
I hope he’s doing okay. The fact that he became Muslim shows that he is looking for solace in his life, trying to get away from the Madness of it all. He is being paid $50 million for Season 3 of his show…. he gets 3 times the ratings of Jon Stewart.. just to show you how popular he has become.

UPDATE: Dave spoke to time magazine, read the article. Here are some excerpts from it:

He turns to his faith for help in that regard. Says his friend Salim: “If he wants to talk religion, then I’m there as someone to talk to.”

Yet Chappelle is low-key about his beliefs: “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It’s a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard,” he says. “I want to be well rounded, and the industry is a place of extremes.”

The show had been postponed in December. During that break, Chappelle, who developed an interest in Islam in high school and became a practicing Muslim in about 1998, tried to perform the hajj—the pilgrimage to Mecca. (He got only as far as Turkey, he says, because he couldn’t get a visa for Saudi Arabia.)

I also found the following quote on Kamran Riaz’s Xanga:

“A soft-spoken Muslim, Salim seems also to be something of a sounding board to Chappelle, who converted to Islam several years ago… The crux of his crisis seems to boil down to his almost obsessive need to “check my intentions.” He uses the phrase a few times during the interview and explains that it means really making sure that he’s doing what he’s doing for the right reasons.”

Filed under: Ranting and Raving

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