I still hope and dream of a better world and will not stop working towards that dream until my last breath inshaAllah.
"Beauty and the East"
By Sara Bokker, December 2006
http://www.islamicinformation.net/2008/06/how-sara-bokker-found-islam.html
I grew up near a small town in South Dakota. The only religions I was exposed to were various denominations of Christianity. My family and I occasionally attended a Lutheran church, encouraged by my mother, and I was eventually confirmed Lutheran. I did believe in God, but did not believe in all that "church stuff": singing, worshiping pictures of crosses and Jesus, and eating "the body and blood of Christ." It just did not make any sense to