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Posted on March 27, 2017

We have a winner…. Congratulations to Maria Fernanda. @ms.marii_ahh

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Welcome, my name’s Glory Ali and this is my blog of Muslim travel advice and adventures.Read More

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Mesquita Al Madinah مسجد

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved. Alhamdulillah.

When I landed in Puerto Rico my dad said I have somewhere special to take you that you are going to love only 10 mins from my house. When we get to his town he takes me to Masjid Al Madinah. I so blessed to have such a loving and supported family.

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Spent the day in my hometown of Utuado, Puerto Rico walking around town enjoying the Christmas decorations made by the town's students for a town center Christmas competition.

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"Yo vi en Quebradilla la noche mas linda que puede soñar" Guillermo Venegas

Murio en Quebradilla, Puerto Rico. Love seeing all the street art and curios around the island. This one in particular caught my eye.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends. I am so thankful for each and every one of you. Spending Thanksgiving in Puerto Rico with my dad and family.

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The carving represents Cacique (chief) Mabodamaca, a Taino leader who tried to protect his people from Spanish trying to take land. His gray stone visage holds that protective and determined look in the eyes. Age and wisdom show in the unending gaze.
A little background on the native Indians in Puerto Rico.The Taíno were an indigenous people of the Caribbean. At the time of European contact in the late fifteenth century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas and the northern Lesser Antilles.

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In my travels I love to visit different churches, Masjid, and Synagogues.

Walking around Quebradilla Puerto Rico and saw this beautiful church in the middle of the town square. So much history in this church.

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Finally back home in Puerto Rico after 18 years. Nothing beats the breeze of the ocean. Mi Isla Del Encanto 🇵🇷

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Some of the friendships we form when traveling tend to stick with us forever.

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📣 🇿🇦 In launching my storytelling pieces, I proudly feature someone who we will always remember. 🔈It took us an entire trek around the globe to hear the words we needed. This is Abdul- our Cape Malay tour guide, a kind and devout Muslim who never stopped smiling the entire trip, as if it was plastered on his face, I thought (a few times) maybe he even slept smiling. He said he was so excited to meet American Muslims, to hear our perspective. He was a 4th gen South African and was sad about what we faced now regarding discrimination (as he heard on the news). But even then he shared that they endured worse, arose, and lived in harmony, living his simple and humble life, because it was a happy one. He said he and we both knew the sick acts in the name of our faith wasn't true Islam, and that's what mattered... "live true Islam, and people will come to know, live kindly, that is the truth..." The struggle, stares, broken windows, pulled off hijabs, expletives thrown our way will feel much less brutal knowing the struggle of muslim Cape Malays who were enslaved, or African-american slave history, and even the stories of Beloved Prophet Muhammad who visited the old woman who used to throw things at him from her window telling him to leave their city after she stopped doing so when she became ill. Maybe if we could just smile more, and live through character, people everywhere would begin to see. Don't awkwardly walk into our megastores, speak and smile, let them pass, say hello.. Kill them with kindness and let that be how they know Islam. He said he lived Islam with pride, and gave his salaam everywhere he went... it gave him peace, and in his mind, would spread peace to everyone.

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What an incredible weekend when your friend come into town @miaadventura. If you are ever in Philadelphia make sure to add @longwoodgardens to your list. It's an incredble botanical garden.

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