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Name: Charlotte
Age: 25
Revert date: August 2015
Nationality: Belgium
Previous religion: Catholicism
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I’ve had Muslim friends my whole life. I grew up in six countries and was lucky to meet Muslims of all backgrounds. But I never saw my Muslim friends as “Muslim”, it wasn’t a part of their identity I really thought about.

It wasn’t until I really saw the effects of the rise of Islamophobia that I made the effort to learn more about what was such a large part of my friends' identities. The fact that they only showed me kindness but that I couldn’t in turn even defend them against Islamophobia really shook me.

I simply didn’t know anything about Islam except from what I saw on TV. So I took it upon myself to start looking into Islam. I made the explicit decision not to ask my friends about it as I knew they would just give me their bias. I needed to learn for myself. So I bought myself a paperback Qur’an from Waterstones and decided to read a page here and there. That itself was already an entirely different experience than I had anticipated. Mind you, I didn’t buy the Qur’an because I had any interest in being Muslim - that wasn’t even a thought that had passed my mind. So the fact that reading the Qur’an had the effect on me that it did really took me by surprise. I then decided to enroll in a class about the history of Islam. Studying the history of Islam alongside reading the Qur’an was probably the most eye-opening, heart-opening experience I’ve ever had.

I felt overwhelmed about all that I had learned, how beautiful Islam was, how much hope it gave and always has given. I couldn’t get enough and felt like “wow, I need to be Muslim. I want to be Muslim.” To add, I was severely Bulimic when I started looking into Islam. I was struggling to overcome dark memories I had that caused the Bulimia in the first place. Islam helped me when all other pathways didn’t. Islam still helps me stay resilient when I feel a relapse is coming on. I’ve become stronger and calmer. Kinder to myself, kinder in my thoughts. Alhamdulilah. There is no God but Allah - and nothing reassured me of God’s love and presence as much as Islam did.