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Gracie Gato's Speakeasy

Three Years In: How I Unlearned My Own Prejudice and Found Peace in Islam

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Gracie Gato
Aug 10, 2025
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Three years.
It’s been three years since I became Muslim.
And if you told the old me — the Westside L.A. girl with a bookshelf full of Kabbalah texts and a healthy distrust of organized anything — that this is where I’d end up, I would’ve laughed. Loud.

Not because Islam repulsed me.
Because it never even occurred to …

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