Hometown: Minnesota
Hometown today :Nashville Tennessee
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Life story!
I will share a little of my story, its long so I am going to try and give you the short version. Perhaps another time I will share the whole thing.
I am a Irish/Norwegian American Muslim.:) I grew up in the beautiful state of Minnesota, and no it doesn't snow year-round contrary to popular belief!
Prior to 1994 I didn't know there was such a thing as a Kurd or Kurdistan. Then that summer I met some Kurds at a summer school in Fargo where I lived. I was immediately drawn to them. I spent much of that next year getting to know Kurds in the area. My intention at the time was to bring these sweet people to Jesus. You see I was a highly involved member of my Evangelical Free Church. I even had gone on mission trips to Mexico.
Along the way however I was given a Qur'an. I read it In the hopes of having more points to argue, you see I was a great debater and still to this day can win almost every argument. In the end, I was changed by it. Slowly the truth of what I was reading seeped into my soul. Until one Sunday in church I was singing a duet with a friend. We were singing a Michael W. Smith song "Roaming thru this World to find my place in this world..." And when I got to that line a tear ran down my cheek and I just knew. I knew Islam was the truth and could no longer deny it or hesitate in giving up myChristian beliefs.
So suffice to say I gave up my efforts to convert them, and instead I spent more and more time with the Kurdish people I knew to learnmore about Islam. I soon feel in love with the Kurds from their spirit, and anyone who has spent any time with Kurds will know what I mean. And it wasn't too long after that that I fell for A Kurd.
He and Iboth graduated in 1996 and got married. 10 days later we moved down here with the rest of his uncles and their families, a caravan literally, down to Nashville. While I still don’t know if I love Nashville as much as up north, I have found many things I enjoy here. Especially the large Kurdish population and all the activities that happen because of that.
I graduated from TSU in 2002 with a degree in Journalism and do freelance writing in my spare time. I also love doing dawah work with the mosques and working with the youth.
Besides that, I am a FULL time momma to 4 boys...Salih, Bilal, Mu'min and Shaan.
If you want to read more about me check out my several blogs...
muslimdayz.wordpress.com
5hours.blogspot.com
thewaitingplace.blogspot.com
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