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"I converted to Islam 11 years ago. I am grateful to Allah that he showed me the straight path, and I ask him to keep me on it and open the hearts of my parents, my brother and friends. I wish they all find Allah's truth and embrace Islam as well.
I grew up as a city girl in central Europe. I always had what I wanted. I took everything for granted. I had a comfortable life, I went through every school and I graduated from university, with a masters degree. I was a young artist ready to meet the world. I had everything but I was not happy. I was anxious about my life, about death. All the religions I knew about mingled in my head. In a spiritual way, I was lost and confused. I decided to travel a bit. I made a journey to a small green island, Ireland. There, my life changed. I met Muslims from different parts of the world and I saw they had something that makes them content and happy. Later I found out it was Islam that gave them the peace. I wanted to learn about it as much as possible, and soon I myself became a Muslim.
Now, I've been married to a lovely Muslim man for 11 years and we have two children. When the first baby was born we decided to escape from the noise and stress of the city life and we settled in the beautiful Irish countryside. We started to grow our own vegetables and eat only organic or local food. We stopped shopping in supermarkets as they radiate almost all foods in order to extend the shelf life thus destroying most of the vitamins. And we certainly didn't want to feed our children 'empty food."
