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You Think You Know Me
by Ayaan Mohamud
4.5 ⭐️
This book absolutely broke me.
When I started reading it I wasn’t sure what to expect, though I know was not expecting the millions of tears that ran down my cheek, the heartbreak that took over me, the gasps I did the further I read. You Think You Know Me hit me so hard… It’s the way that many of my muslim sisters and brothers do in fact go through things like this. I am grateful and incredibly lucky to say that even though I’ve experienced my fair share of staring eyes and subtle comments I have never gotten bullied, verbally or physically, I have never been targeted, I am surrounded by people that treat me fairly and see my headscarf as just something I wear, they do not see it as something that taints the way I am as a person.
I pray that all my muslim sisters and brothers do not have to go through what happened in this book. That is a idealistic wish of mine but what is a world without wanting things that are almost impossible to have. Peace is a hard thing but its not impossible.
This book has changed me. I want to be a better person and I want to stand up for people that go through such things. So what I do not look like you? It is not what matters on the outside but what matters on the inside.
This book absolutely broke me.
When I started reading it I wasn’t sure what to expect, though I know was not expecting the millions of tears that ran down my cheek, the heartbreak that took over me, the gasps I did the further I read. You Think You Know Me hit me so hard… It’s the way that many of my muslim sisters and brothers do in fact go through things like this. I am grateful and incredibly lucky to say that even though I’ve experienced my fair share of staring eyes and subtle comments I have never gotten bullied, verbally or physically, I have never been targeted, I am surrounded by people that treat me fairly and see my headscarf as just something I wear, they do not see it as something that taints the way I am as a person.
I pray that all my muslim sisters and brothers do not have to go through what happened in this book. That is a idealistic wish of mine but what is a world without wanting things that are almost impossible to have. Peace is a hard thing but its not impossible.
This book has changed me. I want to be a better person and I want to stand up for people that go through such things. So what I do not look like you? It is not what matters on the outside but what matters on the inside.