M. F. ANTUÑA Gijón

There is no coercion in religion, ”Koran (2: 256).Johana Casas (31 years, Olloniego) cites the sacred book of Islam because in him has found peace, freedom and life and never pressure or obligation.Because she became her own decision, the Hiyab was put when she estimated it convenient, emigrated to Morocco convinced and happy and, nevertheless, the reaction that all that causes in her own country is of unjustified rejection: «At the time whenI put on my handker.

His love story with Islam and with Morocco began now twelve years ago.She was 19 when, in a weekend in León, she met who is her husband today, Nordin.He had come on vacation, with his visa in order, and stayed in Spain because he fell in love.And it began for her, baptized but that Catholicism had always lived with some distance, the discovery of Islam through the way of being and being in the world of it.«I asked everything, but to attack him, for women, the handkerchief..., but he always had answers, and he began to interest me religion.And, when we had a year and a half of relationship, I understood that religion relaxed him, that he never got angry, that he gave him peace of mind.I saw respect for his parents, the way he locked me, and, when I was pregnant, I decided that this was the education I wanted for my daughter ».And it became before it arrived in the world, a name that is in the Qur'an and means comfort.

Ten years ago, her husband's father became ill and decided to emigrate to Morocco to help him with the food stores.There were already their other two children, Tareq, eight years old, and Aaron, the baby, of one.And just over three years ago, and fed up with such misunderstanding, he created the YouTube channel 'Morocco with my five senses' -he is also on Instagram with the same name -, which has more than five thousand subscribers.«There is a very big ignorance and what I was looking for was to change the idea of what Morocco is.I am here because I like being here, there are many erroneous ideas about the Muslim world, everything that is told is very dark, ”he introduces.And she, looking for the light and above all answers to so many questions that threw her, studies, reads, continually investigates a religion in which, "he says," nothing is imposed.«The videos I do here are lighter, it is tellAnd I notice that I am from outside, ”he says.He tells how that rejection, when religion lived in intimacy, did not occur, but by externalizing it with the handkerchief everything changed: «People did not dare to talk to me, but with my parents, and they were asked if I was sick, howThey had let me do it, and that was the hardest thing, ”he says.His parents, who before the pandemic regularly traveled to Morocco, knew and understood their.But the misunderstanding of others is still there.The funny thing is that, despite feeling happy in Morocco, repudiation also warns in some traditional sectors towards the European who has reached its territory."I am from outside in Spain and I am here".

«En cuanto me puse el pañuelo, me convertí en inmigrante en mi tierra»

But Johana is a strong woman.And keep telling his truth.It has not been publishing videos for a couple of weeks because the year ends and there is a lot of work in your family's stores and businesses and you are also studying to specialize as a pediatric assistant.But he wants to keep opening minds and demolishing walls.«The Qur'an speaks of mothers, of parenting, of respect, issues that are passionate about, but also talks about charity, jurisdiction, science, history, food, astronomy...Things are like that they make me fall in love more and more about my religion, ”he concludes.

Also talk about education in their videos."Here is very good, my children go to a school that is bilingual and they study four more languages the Asturian-Spanish that we are talking about at home," he says.There are so many issues in which the usual story is not yours.He says that Morocco is a country in which women are free, that in other Nations of the Arab and Muslim world with a different situation could not live.But she emphasizes that she chose and that her daughter, who is now ten years old, will decide how she wants to live her life and religion.By the way, that the Arab has spoken: «At first it seemed impossible to me, but now I read it and write it.I see letters, no scribbles, ”he jokes.

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Olloniego, Islamismo, Xenofobia
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