I am new to this site and joined in search of new Muslims. I am a 22 year old Mexican-American Muslimah and have been since the age of seven. I have many questions as to what nationality I am. I usually get Puerto Rican, Egyptian, Pakistani and I've even gotten Asian. People are very surprised to hear that I am a Latina Muslimah. I get tons of questions, but people are just curious and want to hear my story. While most of my experiences are positive, I have had some negative ones as well. I once had a guy tell me to "Go back to my country" and I asked him which Country he thought I was from, and because he just assumed I was Middle Eastern. So once I told him that I was actually born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska and I was Mexican-American, he turned red and quickly walked off.

As far as the Hispanic community goes, they are very curious. I have spent hours with many of my friends answering questions that they had. I have never received any bad remarks from them or any negativity. I have had many random people come up to me and ask me if I'm Hispanic and then ask why I wear a scarf. I have never had them try to talk me out of Islam, Alhamdulliah they are very respectful.

I was born in Mexico. I have not had any real bad or good experience among my fellow latinos. Nothing exciting to report. People just let me be.