Hello! My name is Soroush and I'm an Iranian with immigrant parents. To give you an idea of the situation here, I'll explain most things that have happened within my family since the 1979 Islamic revolution. So my parents used to live in Iran, more specifically Kermanshah but they then moved to Tehran. During the Shahs time, the country was secular and people loved it there, to make a long story short a revolution happened in which the Iranian Shi'ites overthrew the Shahs government because it was too secular and not conservative enough. Now back to my parents, so my dad and his family were already practicing Muslims. I don't know much about my dad's family because both of his parents have already passed away before I was born. My dad wasn't that much of a practicing Muslim and only went to mosques occasionally to pray with his dad. On my moms side, things were different my grandpa at the time was an Assyrian Christian who was half Kurdish and half something else (I think it was Azeri). My Grandma, I don't know much about but I do know that before the revolution she became Muslim and started practicing. Anyways, after the revolution, my parents hated the country because of how strict the government was. My mom had some relatives in the US (or that were working there) and so she left Iran for America. My dad meanwhile tried to get smuggled into turkey and got arrested twice but then succeeded. They both made it to America then met each other in turkey and got engaged, they later moved to the US then Canada then back to the US where I live now. So back to the whole point of this post I was raised as an atheist by both my parents who now have a negative view about Islam since the revolution. I was never interested in religion and sometimes was even against it. However, nearly a year ago that all changed..I started to study Islam 9 months ago and learn about it. I soon got interested and wanted to say the shahada and do all that. Then I found out I'm already technically Muslim because everyone is born a Muslim, also in Iran (I have no idea if this is true) but apparently there's a law that says if your dad is a Muslim your kid will automatically be one as well whether he is born in or out of Iran. I started actually "practicing" Islam maybe a couple of months ago, but the truth is I still don't know how to pray. I am asking for your guyses help on what approach I should take to tell my family that I am a Muslim who is interested in Islam and believes in a single god. I'm really nervous because I don't know how my parents will act (ESPECIALLY MY DAD)
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