AMERICAN BY BIRTHMUSLIM BY CHOICE Two female converts explain why they feel liberated by Islam By Katherine Millett. Katherine Millett is an Elmhurst lawyer and free-lance writer who wrote about identity theft in the Aug. 19 MagazinePublished December 2, 2001 In the aftermath of Sept. 11, struggling to understand mysteries of Muslim culture that had suddenly become frightening and dark, I picked up the phone and called Seema Imam, an American woman who had converted to Islam. She had made a strong impression on me two years earlier, when I listened to her tell a civil rights conference about the...