Lauren Booth – This is how becoming Muslim really feels

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The speaker describes a scene where they were in cotton wool and felt embarrassed and embarrassed that they had recognized the name Islam. They also talk about a woman who gave them a scarf and cried for a week.

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			When I said the shahada, it was like gold bars leaving my tongue a shadow La ilaha illallah
		
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			it was like there was an earthquake, a shadow anna muhammadan Abdul rasuluh and it fell to the
ground. Wow. It was monumental. And I felt like I was suddenly in a big cotton wool ball. It was
like being in cotton wool. It was like just fluffy and everything kind of went distance. When I was
taking my kids to school, they ran off in front of me and I left the house and I thought I haven't
got your hijab, you haven't got your hijab on, you haven't got your hijab on you're naked and I
could not leave my the front door of my house. I had to go and find the one scarf that somebody had
gave me and kind of pull it on in some weird really awkward way and walk the girls to school in the
		
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			scar next seven days, everything was changed. I wanted to pray I wanted to cry to Allah I put my
head to the ground like I've seen the Muslims do and I said to things over and over again I said
thank you for giving me this life that given me all the love that I've had everything that I haven't
recognized, you know, beautiful daughters, I've known love. I've had opportunity had a good family
and I know you and thank you and then I said sorry, just a lot of sorry and I cried a lot for about
a week.