I saw this video that shows an American woman who converted to Islam after seeing the religion being portrayed on a television show. In the video she explains that she read about the religion after watching the show and then eventually visited a mosque, where she converted right away. She said, “[The people at the Mosque] were shocked to see me I think, but yeah, I became a Muslim right that day, right after that prayer.” In the video she mentions that she likes the “peace” in Islam and how they “help the oppressed.”
I wonder if converts such as her are initially told about the death penalty for apostasy from Islam and the horrible way that they treat women. It seems that they neglected to inform her about those things or any of the other disturbing issues with the ideology when she was deciding to convert, since they apparently allowed her to convert in a very abrupt manner.