Revert from America too.
As salem wa laikem,
Hello my sister,
I converted to Islam on December 24, 2006, the day before Christmas(a well known Christian holiday known to be the night Jesus was born). At first I was contemplating on converting, its hard to try to change down here in the south known as the "Bible Belt", christian country. When I started talking about converting to others they were not happy especailly my children's babysitter and her family, which I was close too. I found my self trying to defend Islam because people down here are closed minded and uneducated, futhermore they dont care to learn about Islam because there so called way is the only and right way. May ALLAH open their hearts before its to late. I had came to know Islam through a male friend a knew who worked at a convienent store I always went into, which he is now my husband. At first I told myself I would never accept anything as being the truth accept for the whole Jesus is God thing. Once you grow up all of your life believing in something it hard to grasp the concept of something being different. I went to the internet in an Islamic chat forum where I had read some post from Christians and Muslims correcting each other on their beleifs, it was there I read about the history of the Bible, its flaws, meaning misunderstood and such, after that I started reading and researching and realized the right choice is Islam. I am the only Muslim woman where I lived, so it was hard taking how people acted to the hijab, but GOD made it easy, I felt very comfortable in public. Even though I lost my Dad, and some other family members because of my decision, I had to do what was right and sacrafice some. Insha allah they will see one day my reason for reverting. So even though your parents dont accept you maybe, they will come around just be nice to them no matter how they react to you. And be proud of your decision and dont let anyone bring you down.
My salama,
Hoda