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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Converts To Islam Islam and Me My name is Lyndsey-Yazmeen Koenig; I am 17 years old and I live in Maine in the northeastern United States of America. I have been a Muslim since September 18 th , 2001. This is my story of Islam and me. Jewish people celebrate Hanukah and are a different religion than us different from Christianity.

Judaism and Christianity are the two main religions we should focus on As a teacher of mine from ninth grade reported to me I knew nothing of Islam. Nine years in Public School and didnt hear one word about Islam. To be honest with you up until 9\11 I have never seen a hijaabed woman. It seems as though this was a terror attack aimed at the U.S.A. by someone or something that hated us simply hated us.

It was the day after 9\11 and I was watching the news, as I have done nonstop since then, and I heard about Islam and Muslims. I sat there wondering what they were. Right then I felt a string being pulled inside my brain sending a wave to my fingers telling me, research, research, and research! This happens to me a lot, I owe much of my knowledge to this reflex, which I adore so much. So the string was pulled letting the dam of knowledge came rushing towards me.

I run to the bathroom, bedroom find the comfiest pair of clothes I have preparing myself for a long day of reading and research. Grab a cup of coffee and put my long hair in its famous rats nest on the top of my head. Turn the computer on and get comfy in the leather chair. Cold to the touch, but comforting like my pilots chair on my way to wisdom. I proceed to the search engine Dad has raved about; I type in Muslim and press the magic go key!

My eyes fill with colors of red, white, blue letters of m, i Links! Links! Links! Which to chose, theyre all so beautiful!? There are the regular sitesthen there are the exceptional sites! The first one I ventured into was www.islamonline.net taught me the basics but I still yearned for more. I continued to visit numerous websites but I still couldnt find exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to talk to a young Muslim girl my age.

It took me about a week of serious searching and scaling almost all of the internet (probably, LoL) to find an e-mail pen pal site. Now the real story begins. I filed my pen-pal form on the site writing, Non-Muslim seeking to speak with Muslim young woman to find out more about Islam and hoped for the best.