Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

My mother always confused me. She was raised as a westerner in a western society and willingly gave up control of her life when she became Muslim in her early twenties. She subjugated herself. She imprisoned herself.https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx/status/1130885840136052736 …

When my mother was going through a seperation from my father and she was complaining about how the Imam's may not let her request to divorce go through, I wanted to shake her and scream at her "THIS IS AUSTRALIA. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH IMAMS FOR A DIVORCE."

Many people have made the false assumption that because my mother was white, I had it somewhat easier than most Muslim/ExMuslim women. That couldn't be further from the truth. She willingly gave up her rights and then she ripped my rights away.

My clothing. My body. My voice. These were all things kept tightly under her control. If things didn't go her way she would lash out, screaming and sometimes getting violent. Other times she would act wounded saying I didn't love her, that I hated her.

I know she is a narcissistic woman who I will never please, but I stopped trying to please her more than a decade ago. I do not feel sorry for her at all because, as I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, she choose this life. She imprisoned herself.

Converts are the most hard core because they have something to prove. They wave to try and over-Muslim so that they can be considered legit (and they never will be anyway). Your life would have been even more difficult than most because of that chip on her shoulder.

Exactly. Anytime the child of a convert was seem as "misbehaving", the blame was placed solely on the fact the child had a convert parent. So avoid that, many convert parents are often the most "pious" seeming the the Muslim community.