{"id":1467,"date":"2013-01-02T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/lynda-fitzgerald-ex-catholic-ireland-part-1-of-4\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:37:54","slug":"lynda-fitzgerald-ex-catholic-ireland-part-1-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/lynda-fitzgerald-ex-catholic-ireland-part-1-of-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynda Fitzgerald, Ex-Catholic, Ireland (part 1 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1466\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/khadija%201%20copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px 15px;\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Introduction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lynda Fitzgerald, now known as Khadija, is an Irish girl from a town called Wicklow, close to Dublin.\u00a0 She hails from a very strict Roman Catholic family, comprising of nine children.\u00a0 Her father is an Electrician and her mother a Housewife.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lynda was educated in Wicklow and then went on to Secretarial College.\u00a0 She has worked in Dublin for nine years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Khadija, as she is now called, reverted to Islam, after having come to Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 She relates, in this article, the sequence of events that brought her to this Holy Land and introduced her to the right path.\u00a0 May God Bless her.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How I Came To Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I was in a  young people\u2019s club.\u00a0 We would meet every Monday and then go to the pub afterwards.\u00a0 Sometimes I went, but  mostly I went home after the meetings.\u00a0 One night, a new girl had started in the  club, and I decided to go to the pub to talk to her and make her feel  welcome.\u00a0 It turned out that she worked for a recruiting agency that recruited for  Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 She started to tell me all about it.\u00a0 I was fascinated.\u00a0 I  had hardly even heard of Saudi Arabia before that.\u00a0 As the night went on I got more and  more interested and by the time I left the pub I really wanted to go to  Saudi.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I applied for a job that year, 1993 but I didn\u2019t get it.\u00a0 So, I didn\u2019t think about it for a while.\u00a0 I went home for Christmas and was very bored, and I decided I just had to do something different with my life.\u00a0 All my friends had boyfriends or were married and had moved on to different things.\u00a0 I suddenly found myself with no ties.\u00a0 When I went back to the city after Christmas, I rang that girl in the recruiting agency and asked her to put me forward for any job that came up in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 She said \u2018You won\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 I just got a fax from the Security Forces Hospital looking for a secretary\u2019.\u00a0 I was here by 15 March 1994.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My First Impressions of Islam<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When you come to Saudi Arabia the first thing the other Westerners will tell you is how terrible the Muslims are, how badly they treat their women, how they all go off to pray and don\u2019t come back for hours, how they all go to Bahrain to drink and pick up women.\u00a0 You\u2019re prejudiced right from the start\u2026and you think that\u2019s Islam.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not Islam.\u00a0 Unfortunately the majority of westerners fail to see that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How I Changed That View<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">For me, I was curious from the start.\u00a0 I\u2019d see the people praying in the mosque, and I thought it was great to have such strong faith to worship God so much.\u00a0 I would see leaflets lying around and pick them up to read them, but then my Western friends would say \u201cwhat do you want to read that for, they\u2019re only trying to brainwash you,\u201d and I was embarrassed and I stopped doing it.\u00a0 Then I started taking Arabic lessons and the Arabic teacher, an Egyptian guy, really impressed me.\u00a0 He was so different from a lot of the Muslims I\u2019d met.\u00a0 His faith was so strong.\u00a0 I got friendly with him because I was having some trouble with a Muslim guy in work and I needed someone to talk to about it.\u00a0 I would get all upset and blame it all on Islam, and he would be really patient and explain things to me, and he helped me to see that it wasn\u2019t Islam and that not all Muslims behaved like this.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Another thing the Westerners will tell you is that all the Muslims want to do is revert you, and that they\u2019ll try and brainwash you.\u00a0 So, of course, you\u2019re very wary if anyone tries to talk to you about Islam, and you put up a wall between you and them, and you won\u2019t listen to anything that they tell you.\u00a0 So, with Khaled, he never talked about Islam unless I brought up the subject first, or I incorrectly blamed something on Islam; and sometimes I would practically attack him unfairly about something that had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.\u00a0 He always remained calm and was very patient and it was very clear that he just wanted me to know the truth, he just wanted me to see that I was being unfair and I had been misinformed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Then it was Ramadan.\u00a0 A lot of the Saudi guys in work were moaning and complaining \u201cwe can smell food, you guys shouldn\u2019t be eating in your offices, you should have more respect for us\u201d.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t understand why I couldn\u2019t even have a cup of water on my desk, after all they were supposed to be making a sacrifice for God, they shouldn\u2019t care if I had a cup of water on my desk.\u00a0 The following extract from my diary shows how I felt at the beginning of Ramadan.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cIt\u2019s Ramadan.\u00a0 My goodness, what a month.\u00a0 It\u2019s so annoying.\u00a0 You can\u2019t even mention the word food.\u00a0 They\u2019re all going around like mega martyrs and most of them aren\u2019t even working.\u00a0 They only have to do six hours a day so they just stay up all night and eat and make the rest of us feel like complete pagans during the day.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new 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he said he had something he wanted me to read.\u00a0 He brought a copy of the Quran to show me a passage about Jesus (PBUH) and when he put it in my hands it was like he had given me a precious piece of crystal.\u00a0 I felt awed.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to give it back to him, but I felt stupid and I was afraid he\u2019d laugh if I told him how I felt.\u00a0 So I gave it back to him but it burned inside me for days until finally he actually said it to me himself \u201cwhy don\u2019t you read the Quran\u201d and it was like a weight was lifted from my shoulders and I brought it home and started reading it that night.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ref. www.islamreligion.com <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Lynda Fitzgerald, now known as Khadija, is an Irish girl from a 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