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hey everybody Sam here
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um I am currently in the parking lot at Walgreens
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I've had kind of a day so
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I decided to do something to boost my mood a little bit
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and share with you guys my revert story
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so um
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here it goes and yes
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that is baby money sleeping in the background
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um so I'll start it with um
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I was brought up Christian
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we didn't we weren't like super practicing
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you know we celebrated Christmas
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but you know that's more of um
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an American culture thing at this point
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everybody celebrates Christmas that's not um
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you know like most Muslim or Jewish
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I think even like atheists celebrate Christmas
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but anyways um
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so yeah I was brought up Christian
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um I've had a lot of different experiences in my life
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some really good and some really bad
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and that influenced my uh
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choices as a teenager I was pretty wild
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um I rebelled in a lot of different ways
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you know what I'm saying um
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I was super into um self medicating
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you know I smoked a lot of weed coming up
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you know as a teenager um
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and I mentioned that because Islam
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changed a lot in my life
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so I bring up the bad stuff so you can understand why
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you know Islam was so good for me
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um so I was 16
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me and my mom and family
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you know we moved to another house in Detroit
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there was a Muslim family
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across the street and before then keep in mind
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I cannot
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cannot tell you a time where I had
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personally interacted with a Muslim
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and if I did they were probably not an Arab and men
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because I can tell you I'd never like it
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knowingly looked at a woman in a scarf even
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you know what I'm saying
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so my perception of the religion was
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you know they're all Arabs that's
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you know that's usually what kids think about Muslims
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and they hate Americans and that's
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that's pretty much the knowledge that I had
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you know they prayed five times a day
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I Learned that in school but that was it
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you know as far as world religion studies or whatever
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but yeah so my knowledge in Islam was um
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not little but completely misinformed
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um so yeah
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meeting them was like an awakening
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you know what I'm saying
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so seeing these people that are so sweet and
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you know
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the daughter didn't wear scarf but the mom did and um
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the dad was super religious
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he fasted outside of Ramadan
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um so like
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it was nice to see the difference
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and what I thought versus
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you know the reality
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and then going forward I had met someone who
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I remember my first interaction was
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talking about a Marilyn Monroe tattoo
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that I wanted to get on my back
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and he was like
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but why though that's really dumb
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so he just instilled in me
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um
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basically think before you act
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you know simple stuff
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um he also over the time okay
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so first of all I'm talking about my husband
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everybody knows that I've been married for um
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basically a decade at this point
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and um
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before I go further into details
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I wanna make something very clear with you all
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I am not Muslim because I wanted to marry my husband
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I am Muslim because Islam is what's right for me
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in my heart and regardless of my relationship with him
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I would still be Muslim so
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please
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do not accuse me of faking my religion for a man
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because it's very common and I'm aware of that
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but I'm surely not the case anyways
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so we met and we would argue about a lot of things
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you know mostly I was wrong
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you know because a lot of things that
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my side of the argument would just be stupid immature
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you know kids wanting to get their way type of stuff
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so
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you know
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we would talk about religion and he taught me a lot
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and at first the idea of hijab was like why
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why do I have to cover I didn't understand
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why do I have to do something and you don't
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and first of all
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I was wrong because men have to cover too
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um they just have different ways of covering
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um and I
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I didn't understand it first
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the value of modesty in general
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and then even when you take away all the other things
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um hijab is for God
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you know you
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you do it to show your dedication and love for God
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you know that's just like the basics of it
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so when
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when I understood that or when he explained that to me
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it was such a beautiful thing
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and you know
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further more
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um the more I Learned about Islam
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the more I kind of decided that I needed it
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you know because Islam is not um
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just a religion it's a way of life
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it's um every
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every aspect of your life
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you know eating with your right hand and not your left
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um staying Bismilla before you take a bite
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um there
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there are a lot of parts of Islam that
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is a positive
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influence in different aspects of your life
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and I saw that learning it
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you know I just
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I saw how
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beautiful someone's perception on the world can be
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when they're looking at it through the eyes of Islam
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and that sounded so corny coming out
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I swear to God I didn't
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I didn't mean to sound so corny
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but um
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Columbia loud sorry baby
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um but yeah
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so we we were friends um
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and we would talk about religion and
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you know our lives and what we wanna do with our lives
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you know growing up and stuff like that
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and you know
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I decided that I wanted to be Muslim
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and through this time at the time um
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I did go through a a point of uh
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confusion I don't know
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cause I was trying to figure out
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you know I was 16
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17 I was young um
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we don't think clearly when we're teenagers
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so I was struggling with
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understanding my own feelings
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of whether or not I loved
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Islam or if I loved my husband
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or both you know what I'm saying
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I was trying to figure out if I was doing this
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like 100% for me or if I was being
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you know
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the typical teenage girl just trying to make her
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you know this guy that she liked like her back
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you know what I'm saying and it was
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it was a tough time for me
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but when I can't
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I can't tell you for certain the moment
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but there was a moment and I just like I needed Islam
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but I needed him to you know what I'm saying like
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he's it was like a package deal
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kind of
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like I knew I could be Muslim on my own because I
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I feel it in my heart and I believe
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I believe you know
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the teachings of Islam
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but he just brings he brings it out on me
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he makes me try harder to be a better Muslim
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you know what I'm saying
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like you just wake up in the morning and you just
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I need to pray you know what I'm saying
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like he's that person for me so
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I love him for so many different reasons and ways
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you know what I mean and this did not
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I didn't intend to have this be about my husband at all
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but um he really did save my life
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and I say that all the time
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and my mom kind of laughs and she says it a little bit
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too um but
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he
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I'm gonna stop actually because I think I'm gonna cry
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um
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but I
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love being Muslim and I love the community
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and the family that I've joined
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and I love that my babies
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are gonna grow up to be Muslims
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that just well
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obviously they're Muslim now
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but uh
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just knowing that they have that
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makes me so happy so again
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please
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do not ever assume that I am the type of woman that
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wears a scarf because she got married to a Muslim
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because that's not the case
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us ladies over here we love Islam
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um so yeah
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that's my story
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and I love you all and I appreciate you listening
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and if you have time
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press the like button and share please
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so we can get more people involved in our little family
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we got going here
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and if you have anything you want me to talk about
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you know put it in the comment section
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and I will talk to you guys soon bye
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