[Tunisia Alive] The person Yasmine described herself as being before her conversion seems very different from the person who sat in front of me.

She says that she prayed five times a day, every day. She did not shake men’s hands and she wore the hijab (a veil covering the hair) for one and a half years.

Today, dressed in clothes of all the colors of the rainbow, with long earrings and short dark hair, this young Tunisian woman, whose name has been changed for this article, talked excitedly of her experience as she gestured emphatically with her hands.

“I took the hijab off because I didn’t find God. I did everything he asked but I didn’t think I was ever doing a good enough job,” Yasmine explains. “If God just created us and left us, and I am just here to pray and for him to judge me, he isn’t a God that deserves to be worshiped.”

Feeling abandoned by God, yet afraid of him taking revenge for her thoughts, she finally decided to ask for a sign. 

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