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A Convert By Any Other Name …
hello my name is… Once upon a time, in a land far, far away –Ok, so maybe it was just a couple of hours drive from where I live now, but I needed to borrow the drama the phrase lends—I changed my name...
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I Bear Witness: A Ghost Story, Part 1
Welcome to the other side of my face! I’m Wearing glasses in this one so I can look smart. Of all the choices in life, why would a young woman living in one of the most affluent countries in the world...
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I Bear Witness: A Ghost Story, Part 2
A hot mess Where did I leave off? Oh yes … So there I was, dying from vampire Lestat’s bite only to be reborn as eternal evil. Oh wait, that’s a different story. Eh hem, so there I was, feeling like I...
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Memories From a Roommate
What follows is my old roommate’s response to I Bear Witness: A Ghost Story. You know it has been at least 12 or 13 years since we had those talks, and reading about it reminded me how I am still...
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7 Things I Didn’t Expect When I Converted to Islam
Take the overwhelming desire for people to know how others live, (sited in our obsession with “reality” TV) along with the fact that I am having a hankering to talk about myself this week (one of those...
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What Makes Being a Muslim Woman Hard in the West
Hey, party people! It’s that time of week again. That’s right, it is time to get some islamwich. And what is a party without an islamwich? Lame! That’s what! Ok that’s enough of that. But there is a...
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Top 5 Regrets of Our Youth
Here I am in my early 30s and a few times a week at least I hear heart wrenching stories about our youth. I understand that this newer generation of Muslims live in a more connected world and have...
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