Michigan woman discovers husband converted to Islam, had 2 other wives

Michigan woman discovers husband converted to Islam, had 2 other wives


Mustafa is still permitted a fourth wife under Islamic sharia law.

During a single week in August, the world of Faye Miller, a 51-year-old stay-at-home mom in Rochester Hills, came crashing down when she started to examine her marriage at the suggestion of her therapist.

Through Google and phone records searches she learned:

• Her husband of 10 years, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, a metro Detroit podiatrist, already had a wife in California when he married her in 1999.

• And in 2003 he had married yet another woman, a podiatrist in Quebec.

Equally astonishing, Mitchell, 48, a practicing Protestant who belongs to a Lutheran church with Miller, had converted to Islam in 2002, taken the Arabic name Mustafa and traveled twice to Saudi Arabia on religious pilgrimages, according to court records.

Miller said she learned in 1997 that Mitchell had been having an affair with Shazia Malik, a Canadian podiatrist, but he reassured her it was over.

Daphne Mitchell, the California wife — who divorced Mitchell in 2002 after he had married Miller, but before he married Malik — could not be reached for comment. The Canadian wife, Malik, who has a practice in Quebec, also declined to talk about the case with the Free Press, except to say: “I don’t want that bastard tarnishing my reputation anymore than he already has.”

Mitchell’s explanation, based on court records, is that it’s all a big misunderstanding. He claimed he thought his divorce from Daphne Mitchell was final when he married Miller.And he said the Islamic wedding to Malik, with 100 people in attendance near Toronto, was a sham — that he only pretended to marry her so that her parents could not force her into a prearranged marriage with another man.