This story begins in a small city in Indiana, at seven minutes after midnight, on Halloween morning, in 1963. A baby girl was born to an immigrant Italian couple. She was their first child and was conceived only 3 months after the woman miscarried her first pregnancy. She was brought up with traditional Italian values, which seemed somewhat conservative to the rest of the families in the neighborhood. She would not know the importance of these values until much later in life…

How did I become a Muslim? This is a commonly asked question by brothers and sisters alike. I could never get into all the details of my reversion but I can say truly that Allah does offer signs throughout the life of a human being. My earliest memory was ironically from my Hispanic Roman Catholic [...]