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Islam is inherently patriarchal. Muhammad raped a 9 year old girl and had sex slaves. Islam allows for sex slavery. It’s not just a problem of “Muslim men’s interpretation uwu uwu”. All of you Islam apologists are just rape advocates in my eyes now.

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Why I left Islam?

First, let me introduce myself. I was born into a muslim family, like so many others.  So obviously I was a muslim since birth.  As soon as I was born, indoctrination began, shaping a cult into a child’s vulnerable mind.  My name was decided by a priest.(It is considered auspicious). The first thing I heard with my tender ears is “Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar” (God is great, God is Great), which I would repeat in my life so many times.  Then they circumcised my precious little thing (it hurts a lot) by saying “bismillah hir rahman nir raheem” - “In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful”. (Not for medical reasons, but for religious rites). How can cutting a babies foreskin be considered merciful? If Allah wanted all us circumcised, why didn’t he create us like that? Circumcision  is a must to be a muslim, as it is also required in other abrahamic faiths. If you get scared of circumcision you will not be accepted as a muslim, as it’s a must for every Muslim male. So before thinking of getting converted to a muslim, you must get rid of Aichmophobia. Then on the seventh day after my birth, to thank allah for blessing them with a son, they performed aqeeqah. (Sacrifice that is offered on behalf of the newborn on the seventh day after birth.). They sacrificed two sheep (for a girl it is one sheep, one boy = two girls, and they talk about gender equality). Their throats were cut by reciting  "bismillah hir rahman nir raheem" - “In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful”. (Where is the mercy for the sheep here?).  As an infant I did not have the liberty of taking any decisions, all the thinking part was taken care by my dear father (mothers don’t have a say, they are of no value). I was repeatedly asked to say “bismillah hir rahman nir raheem” before doing anything. I got used to it over a period of time. Before doing anything, I used to say “bismillah hir rahman nir raheem”. My mom started training me about the ethics of islam at home. Thankfully I was put into a school for my worldly education. But in the evenings I had to go to a madrasa in a nearby mosque. In the madrasa I was told that Mohammed is the most perfect man ever in the history of the Universe. Infallible. He never committed any bad act. After Allah, Mohammed is the most benevolent person. I was told that Mohammed always forgave his opponents, he was a forgiving and tolerant man. I was told that Mohammed respected women the most and Islam was a religion that honoured women. In a nutshell , to Muslims Mohammed is a saviour of this mankind.(peace be upon him)  I was always told to do namaz without ever missing it, five times a day. I was also told to recite quran in arabic everyday without fail. I was told about satan. How he leads us to the wrong path. How dreadful satan is. I was told that if I miss namaz, i would be sent to hell. Which is what every child would be threatened with, eternal hellfire (lol, Allah is the most merciful). Then there were stories about how satan takes control of you, when you miss your namaz.  I was told about the omnipresence of Allah. (I used to wonder, if god is one, how the hell is he present everywhere). This used to confuse me.  I was also told about heaven, jannah. I was told that I would be taken to heaven when I have completed all my duties which Allah has ordered. I was told that heaven is the most beautiful place to be in. I was told about rivers of honey, streams of milk. (Sadly there was no mention about chocolate rivers, I love chocolates). I was also told that, Allah is always watching you. He will punish you for whatever wrong you do and reward you for the good things, so we must also try to please Allah and stay away from sin.  I was also told about two angels called Raqib and Atid, one angel always sits on the right shoulder and records all good deeds, while another sits on the left shoulder and records all bad deeds. ( I used to wonder when Allah knows everything we do, why was there a need to have these two extra guys. No wonder we have the so called population explosion.  I used to hear stories from my friends about ghosts. Like one of my friends always used to tell us a lot of stories about ghosts. His father was a truck driver. He always used to tell us about his father’s encounters with the ghosts. Listening all this, we used to get terrified. All this made me  phasmophobic. I was not able to sleep properly at night. I knew a ghost will come from nowhere and eat me up or do some terrifying thing to me. I believed more easily in the existence of ghosts as Allah himself had created satan. Whatever my friend used to tell me, i used to blindly believe in it. Just imagine my plight those days. I could never sleep alone. I could never go to a room which had no light. Nights were terrible to me during those times. I was never able to come out of that fear for a long time. As I grew I learnt more about islam. I learnt about the 72 hoors (Female maidens of paradise) which we would be getting for being obedient to God. The Shaheed (Martyr - who dies for the cause of islam) is one of the people who will straight go to the Jannah (Heaven) and get those 72 hurs. (Wonder if he gets time for prayers with so many hurs). No wonder why so many suicide bombers are working for Allah’s cause. They don’t even have to wait for the day of judgment.

Then , luckily science happened.

Thankfully science was there to my rescue when religion never answered my questions and confused me.  In school , when I was in 8th standard I read about Miller-Urey experiment about the origin of life.  Then read about Darwin and Gregor Mendel and their work. I got fascinated with the idea of evolution. Started reading articles which supported evolution. 1.The universal genetic code  2.The fossil record.  3. Genetic commonalities 4. Common traits in embryos 5. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics All these things contradicted the Quran, Adam and hawwa (Eve) and the claim Allah created us. I was confused.

When I tried confronting my islamic teacher at the madrasa with these valid points, he was unable to answer. He would instead reprimand me for questioning Allah’s existence. The best answer he used to give when he had no answer is “Allah knows better.”. The typical answer from clerics who know nothing.

I really started doubting God. Whenever we call for him he is never there? The most merciful is not at all merciful when you see natural disasters. Where is he when tsunamis and earthquakes claim thousands of innocent lives?  The most merciful is the most merciless towards animals of sacrifices, which is celebrated as eid al adha  He never tried to prove himself, just left an old book and plenty of doubt, despite the fact Allah is all powerful and easily could clinch his existence if he revealed himself.  He made animals and let them have other smaller animals as their food. He made sex a sin. (But on the contrary he lures the martyrs with 72 virgins in heaven). Hypocritical in the least.  Is never able to make sun rise from the opposite direction even for once, just to prove his presence.

For all these questions i was reprimanded and punished and was told that Satan is misguiding me. (Allah knows best. lol). Instead of them accepting these doubts came from my rational mind , not some malevolent demon.

Finally, I had enough of all that crap. And what a transformation in myself after I stopped believing in all that crap. There was no fear of ghosts as there are none. There was no fear of Satan. No fear of the most powerful Allah. No fear of Hell. (Though I will miss the 72 virgins of heaven). No fear of death, death is the end of it all. After death i’m nothing same as before my birth. That was a good realisation . There is no hell.

Now I just enjoy my life. Enjoy it to the full. As I should.  I look at the open skies, the sun, the moon and the stars. I’m a free bird now, free from the bondage. I have left islam, the kingdom of slaves.

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"Footprints of Militarization" by Syed Ali Shah and Shaista Yasmeen.

Read "Footprints of Militarization" by Syed Ali Shah and Shaista Yasmeen. It gave me an indepth understaning of the plight of women in particular and the plight of all the people of Balochistan in general. They have done an exhaustive research on the topic. I picked up "Footprints of Militarization" cos Balochistan was getting highlighted in Indian media recently. I really feel sorry for the people of Balochistan. The authors have rightly pointed out that, in the aftermath of wars and militancy women are the worst sufferers. And their plight is never highlighted by the media. The most tragic point is the unavailabilty of proper education to girls. 5000 number of ghost schools and 7000 ghost teachers are just unacceptable. To me the conditions over their are worse than some of the worst African countries. The Military, Govt, Insurgenecy, radicalisation, and the very porous Afghan border have all contributed to this mess. Just hope things will turn for better. Garrisoned Minds: Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia

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Saudi Arabia is the root of ISIS. If Saudi Arabia tells you it has a problem with ISIS, what’s the problem? You have a problem with executions? You execute. Beheadings? You behead. Anti-Shia? You’re anti-Shia. Anti-Christian? You’re anti-Christian. Plurality of opinion? You’ve got a problem when it comes to plurality of opinions. When Saudi Arabia gives you the rhetoric that it’s against ISIS, it’s the biggest load of nonsense politically in this world. Saudi Arabia has absolutely no problem with ISIS whatsoever. Saudi Arabia’s only problem is that the call for Caliphate within ISIS means there’s a threat to their leadership. Otherwise, the vision of ISIS is the vision of Saudi…. If you look at the rhetoric of ISIS and the rhetoric of Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab– the ideologue of the Wahhabi school in Saudi Arabia–there is absolutely no difference between the rhetoric of ISIS and the rhetoric of the Wahhabis.

Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani (via inshallahtounite)

True.

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I am aware that the majority of people don’t practice the bad parts of religion. I know that most people either skip over, refuse to acknowledge, or logic their way around the hatful parts of their doctorine. However, that doesn’t make them vanish from existence. That doesn’t make your religion good or morally sound. And you cant really get upset when people become critical of that religion. Or you.

Because when you actively follow (and preach in the name of) anything that condones rape, slavery, pedophilia, and/or genocide, most people probably aren’t going to let it slide. When you defend teachings that cause and inspire oppression, your opinion becomes a moot point in a lot of crowds. Just because your interpretation is peaceful and loving, doesnt mean the original content is. You need to understand that your religion is an ideology and not above criticism or scrutiny. I will treat you with respect because you are my fellow human being, but i do not owe that respect to your beliefs.

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A very good read. Free as a bird.

the greatest thing about leaving religion is that you are freed from all those stupid restictions like even just mentally, there is no nonesensical reason not to do something! it’s so cliché but when i medidate on it it just baffles me! For example:

It doesn’t matter that you are a girl, you can actually NOT get married! You can actually NOT have kids if you don’t want to! (and HEY! You are not worth less than a man! did ya know????)

You CAN actually drink or smoke or eat bacon!!

You CAN actually be with someone of the same sex as you! ( ISN’T THAT JUST GREAAAT!! )

You CAN actually live a life where you don’t wear hijab!!!

You CAN actually HAVE A DOG!!!!!!!

You CAN actually celebrate halloween or christmas!!

You CAN actually learn MUSIC! You can learn the guitar or piano or whatever you WANT!

You CAN have tattoes, piercings, for girls you can have pixie haircuts! hell, you can shave all your hair off if you wanna!! You can pluck your eyebows! you can wear shit tons of makup and you can wear WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT!

It’s POSSIBLE, and even if currently i can do none of this, the mere abstract POSSIBILITY cheers me up, like i no longer suffer from that tormenting cognitive dissonance, my MIND IS FREE! my brain is at peace with itself! i know exactly what I want and there is no STUPID SHITTY RELIGIOUS REASON WHY I SHOULD NOT WANT WHAT I WANT! I am a rationnal person, and I WILL NEVER EVER sacrifice logic for your fearmongering barbaric religion’s sake!

#PROUD #FUCKING #ATHEIST

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Reblog if you’re pro ex-Muslims

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Hey I have reblogged your post and also tweeted it on twitter. My twitter handle is @atheistkafir

friendly reminder that islam is toxic

its so hard to not become a misandrist when your dad is a muslim. i hate my father’s convictions so much. i just want to scream in his face, sit the fuck down youre not my fucking king. you will not marry me off to a man like you, to a muslim monster. nor do you have the right to do that. men get no say in who their adult daughters marry. men are not superior to women. men in a family are no more important than their wives. men are not the fucking supreme authority of their family. useless segregation of the sexes is fucking stupid. us girls and women have the right to go wherever we damn please without the permission of male relatives. who gets to see our beauty is up for us to decide, not you. YOU muslim men are stupid and backwards minded, not the western world. ppl wearing bikinis at the beach is not fucking “macabre” you idiot prude. god muslim culture is a crock of shit, someone pls make it disappear before it infests western societies any further. i cant wait to leave this family, go wherever i want whenever i want, dress how i want, talk with whoever i want however i want, play whatever instruments i want, cut my hair however i want, get a ton of tattoos, date ppl, be my “kafir whore” self in peace, and not see my idiot fathers ugly misogynistic face for as long as i live. fuck islam, seriously fuck it.

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One More Reason not to be a Muslim.

One more reason not to be a muslim.

I have seen the slaughter of animals since i was just 7 days old. On the seventh day of my birth, my head was shaved and silver worth the weight of my hair was given as charity. They brought two sheep (One for a girl). I wished i was a girl, atleast one sheep would have been saved. Tie their legs. Rolled them down on the floor. Put water in their mouths. Then they slaughtered them. by saying Bismillah Allahuakbar (In the name of God, Allah is great). It was compulsory for me to see the slaughter. The great mercilful Allah asks us to slaughter the animal mercilessly.   Is he really merciful? Ask the poor animals. Just imagine how many children are born into muslim families every year? As soon as a child is born in a muslim family, the axe starts hanging  on the poor animals.

Then comes three days of mass slaughter. (Eid-ul-Azha) Eid-ul-Azha is the period all the animals dread. (Except pigs and a few other animals). Pigs must thank their luck for muslims to hate them. These three days are like hell to the animals. The muslim dominated roads resemble like rivers of blood. A lot of muslims slaughter the animals in open roads as there is just not enough space in their homes. After slaughtering the animals, they make it into three portions. One portion is kept for the family. The other two portions are distributed tothe relatives and the needy. Some of the hadiths (words and actions of Mohammed) when the person who sacrifices an animal dies, the animal will carry him across the bridge of sirat which is very very narrow to the Jannah (Heaven).

This is just wasting the precious lives of all the poor animals. How can we call Allah the most merciful? When I asked this question to islamic scholars, they did not give me a reasonable answer. They could never justify the killing. When they can't answer a question, they have an escape route. Allah knows best!!!

Allah knows best.

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An uplifting part of Ch 15

We have a smart, caring, funny, gorgeous, and all-around amazing little daughter together.  And he tries to be the best dad to our two girls that he can possibly be.

He has never met my mom, and I doubt he ever will. Our little daughter has never met her either. I have not had any contact with her for almost fifteen years. At first I used to just feel so much pain followed so closely, almost indistinguishably, from anger. But now, finally, I feel numb.  It took an impressively long time, but I finally, honestly and truly, don’t care what happens to her. I was done wanting her approval a long time ago, but then I was left with this indignant need for her to apologize and accept, and take responsibility for all the pain that she has caused.  But now, I am so thankful to say, that I am finally over that.  I do not want or need anything from her.

Because my mom is the matriarch of the family, this meant that I’d have no contact with my siblings, or other family members, either. I had a brief encounter with my brother when, about ten years after me, he discovered that my mother was hateful and manipulative. But, it turned out the apple didn’t fall far from the tree with him, so that reconnection was short-lived.

I am now quick to sever toxic ties.  I don’t waste time forgiving and trying again and again, like I used to.  So when my sister accused me of lying about being abused by her ex-Father-in-Law/ ex-Step-dad, I unfriended her, and have not been in contact with her since.  She’s so far down the Islamic rabbit hole anyway—our worlds are not even in neighbouring universes.

I have one uncle that I speak to periodically; he raised me when I was a baby when my mom went back to work. From infancy till I was about two years old. So we have a special bond. I have his son, my cousin, on Facebook. But other than that, no contact.

I can’t even say I’m sad about it either.  I am sad that I wasn’t born into a loving family, but I am certainly not alone in that. A lot of people grow up with shitty parents and they turn out to be very successful human beings.

I am sad that my daughters will never know any of the Egyptian side of their family. None of that means anything to them. Talk of Egypt might as well be talk of Greece or China, they’re all just faraway lands.  Neither of my girls speak nor understand Arabic.

Neither of them will ever fear being burned by an invisible man in the sky if they don’t bow to him five times a day. Neither of them will know what it’s like to feel ashamed of their bodies, of their hair. Neither of them will be forced to do anything they are uncomfortable doing for the sake of an arrogant and vengeful figment of a 7th century goat-herder’s imagination, ever.

Neither of them will ever have to overcome child abuse whether it be psychological, physical, or sexual.

I have protected my girls and, for that, I am grateful.  I have succeeded in my life’s mission. I broke through the cement that ensnared me, and I stopped the cycle. That all dies with me.

I was the bridge, I was the first generation; I was Hodor holding back the door so that they could live free. They won’t know any of the life I lived.  It will be as foreign to them as it is to some of you.  

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A post by A brave young exmuslim girl.

https://freethinkingheretics.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/why-ex-muslims-should-have-recognition/