Sara is a girl from USA discovered to Islam when she was 14 years old. She was researching Christianity and she was happy with Christianity and wanted to stay that way. She stumbled upon Islam by accident, she tells us.
It is difficult to see somebody who wears hidjab where she lives, so one day when she say a friend's mom wear one, she got curious. She looked up why Muslim women wear head-scarfs? She read the answers on her mobile-phone and Wikipedia linked her to other sites. One of them said that Islam, Judaism and Christianity are Abrahamic faiths. She were amazed about this new piece of information. When it got down to details about the religion, it said that Christianity had been split up into three pieces. She did not know what to think while reading this news. She were chocked as trinity was not explicitly explained at her church. That she had never believed in the trinity and it came very clear when she read about Islam.
She talked later on with her male friend about trinity and she knew that Muslims know more about Christians than Christians do about themselves. That evening she profoundly researched about islam more and she started to think about her self as an "ibrahimic atheist", because she did not believe nor in trinity or Judaism because Judaism it rejects Jesus.
In June, 2010, she officially converted to Islam. It was a really hard time after that. The initial thing was that they do not accept who she were. Now it is hard to be a Muslim in other ways. In November on Thanksgiving, she had already stopped eating porc. and she knew at some point that her family would put some porc in the food. She asked them and they denied. When she ate it she found that there were something in the food. Then they started to talk about faith - if she was a jew or a muslim. That led to a big discussion about religion, terrorists and much more.
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