I’ve been thinking a lot about how to process the experience of some people’s vitriolic hatred of Islam. So this article came to me at the right time.

For me—- I sit with that experience for hours and hours. I think about it. What shaped it. Where it came from. The sources. The money that funds it. The politics that benefit from it. The way it goes unchecked by good people.

Do the people who feel so certain in their pronouncements on Islam ever spoke to an actual Muslim or meet one in person?

Do I think it must be addressed because such hatred can hurt me and my loved ones, or because I wish others would experience the beauty and blessing that this religion is, or a bit of both?

No- "Say, 'Never will we be struck except by what Allah has decreed for us; He is our protector.' And upon Allah let the believers rely."

No, I don’t think people and their hatred can hurt me. Not at any true level.

My life and safety are in God’s hands alone.

I fear nothing and nobody except His displeasure.

So when I feel like correcting people’s ideas— I think it’s really out of endearment and love for them. I love easily. I love humans easily.

And I wish the best for everyone.

“And we did not send you except as a mercy to the worlds;” Said God to Muhammad (pbuh).

And I believe that to my core and experience it with every breadth I take.

Alhamdulilah