Revert Journey
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From Baptist to Salah: Soo-Yeon's Journey
I spent 30 years searching for meaning in catholic. Then a neighbour changed everything.
Revert journeys. Identity struggles. Faith found, lost, and found again. Unfiltered voices from your brothers and sisters across the world.
In Egypt, a divorced woman is a tragedy. I decided to be a plot twist instead.
I spent 30 years searching for meaning in catholic. Then a neighbour changed everything.
It wasn't philosophy that pulled me away. It was loneliness. And it wasn't theology that brought me back. It was community.
They said wearing hijab would hold me back in medicine. I wore it anyway. They took me seriously regardless.
At school I was too Muslim. At the mosque I was too Singapore. I spent years feeling like I belonged nowhere.
At school I was too Muslim. At the mosque I was too India. I spent years feeling like I belonged nowhere.
I've answered 'do you have to pray five times?' approximately four hundred times. Here's my actual answer.
Everyone in my evangelical christian community thought I'd lost my mind. I'd never been more sane.
At school I was too Muslim. At the mosque I was too American. I spent years feeling like I belonged nowhere.
People keep asking me to choose between my culture and my faith. I refuse.
Our first year nearly ended because of the mahr amount. What saved us was an imam who understood listening instead of lecturing.
When the flood came, our tiny mosque became the last line of defence — for everyone who needed it.
When the pandemic hit, our tiny mosque became the only institution that stayed — for everyone who needed it.