Haters are Motivators

Today was another interesting opinionated day for me. I am aware that everyone in the world may not agree with my decision to become a muslim, and everyone is entitled to their opinion, but there are certain ways this very opinionated person should have gone about it. There's this case going on in my state of these men being arrested for terrorism. So this individual stated to me that, "I would be arrested with the terrorist" and " I should be careful what I chose to believe and associate myself with". The comments were so ignorant and judgemental that I didn't even chose to comment. Then this individual preceded to say that "I don't know anything about muslims or being muslim". Still, I ignored the individual. Believe me it got me heated, but I saved it for my blog.

I am so glad that i am diverse. I am open to all people, and it's sad the rest of the world isn't and they chose to make ignorant comments about people and things they don't understand. There are so many types of muslims. All muslims aren't terrorist. All muslims cannot be blamed for the actions of 3-5 individuals. Islam is a religion of peace! Muslims aren't even the first group to perform acts of violence in the name of God or their religion. There were many religions before them. If you really want to get technical, look up some facts.. read a book!

I don't claim to know everything about Islam. I converted 5 months ago, but I have done more than enough research. I know as much as I need to know for my comfort and for me to have made a decision to convert. My head is always in a book! I am learning something new everyday about Islam, and luckily I have sisters (muslimahs) that are nice enough to help me out and give me words of advice as well as new material to research. I'm not sweating it though, because I'll let my haters be my motivators. I will prove them wrong and walk around a proud, educated, loving and peaceful Muslimah!

Allahu Akbar! [watch "30 days: muslims and america" located on the bottom of my page, also found on youtube and hulu]

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