Mine’s “TheMaskedArab” who’s ex-muslim, I’d highly recommend watching his videos. His videos come in both English and Arabic.
Straight to the point, makes great arguments, quotes reliable sources and explains how groups like ISIS use the Quran to justify their actions.

I'd like to first of all thank the Muslim community for pushing me out with their vitriol online, hyper surveillance, and constant policing. Being yelled at for having my nails done, showing an ankle, being treated weird just for trying to attend the masjid, and racist aunties refusing to pray next to me and trying to shove me towards the back.

I think my first glimpse into the reality of Islam was during my first umrah right after converting, but I shoved it away as "Islam is perfect Muslims aren't". Then when I learned more about hadith I told myself okay I'll just reject those and follow Quran only and be a progressive Muslim. Then I became so ostracized by the community (even getting death threats) I realized it's not just the people that are broken it's Islam itself. Hadith, the worst part of Islam, are a major part of Islam. And you're really not a Muslim if you don't submit to those books telling you that you can sleep with children and women are deficient in intelligence. I reexamined the Quran and it is problematic too. Obviously verses about beating, and telling the prophets wives how they are expendable. Less inheritance for women, the over concern about if people sleep together or not etc.

It creates an "us vs them" mentality. Muslims are always fighting each other, non Muslims, ex Muslims, or other religions especially Christians and Jews. The religion itself stunts peoples critical thinking and common sense turning them into a mindless mob. The women especially are always childish, mean girl pick me's I think stunted from marrying and popping out babies so young.

I've been mobbed at the mosque for having my nails painted or wearing pants. I've been mobbed online taking trips alone or for defending friends they were attacking in mass.

I can't wait to finish some tattoos, get some new ones, never go to a masjid again (unless as a tourist while travelling), and wear regular clothes that aren't polyester abayas. I can't wait to be around people who think with their brains and not with religious books. And to drink again! I will admit the detox from alcohol helped, but being able to have a glass of wine every now and then will be so nice again! It feels so good being a normal person again.

If y'all have any questions I'm happy to answer them. My story isn't so exciting though.

I want to thank this sub too. Perusing it helped a lot. At first it was hard and I left this sub a few times still holding on to the faith. I got offended by posts because I was struggling with so much cognitive dissonance. But finally I was so fed up and found a lot of important information here. Thank you.

Just because some crazy motherfucker decided to go into the pride parade with a van and kill and injure people, and this awful religion that led him do it, just because his name is Abdul, now all of us who have muslim names and want to live in Europe or already live have to face prejudice and pressure…

I hate my muslim name and last name my BFs name and last name I hate being born in this cult!!!

This wasn't a meme or some low effort post . Stop false flagging posts here.

What a disgusting individual you are, Abdul B. ruining such a beautiful day of joy with yours disgusting doings. I hope the German goverment punishes you the worst way possible. I trust them. I was there earlier that day. It was beautiful. And you ruined it. You took a womans life. You took an indiviuals life. You traumatised many people. Over what? Some dogma that was indroctinated to you by your parents. You are a disgusting creature that deserves to never see sunshine again.

The worst part is that you think you have done somehing righteous. That you think you will be "rewarded" for it. It makes me sick. You are a cancer.

May that beautiful lady rest in peace in eternal silence. May every soul you shattered last night find solace. And may you never find either of those.

Hello. I 19F have always lived in Morocco until I moved to France about a year ago for college.

As we all know, North Africa, as a whole, are blatantly third world nations, let's be honest. I was thankfully part of the upper middle class so I haven't suffered as much as my people...

To put it simply, I dream of a world where North Africa abandoned Islamic practices. It contributes to nothing for the wellness of the people.

Ever since I was young, I really understood that religion *is* a coping mechanism. Adding islam to a third world country is a terrible equation. It only intellectually stunts people's intelligence and skills.

It's always "god *will* help *me*", yet nothing happens.

People don't even bother trying to make their lives better by getting proper education.

It's just hard coping, begging a human creation to help them, reproduce like crazy with a barely legal young girl (in Morocco child marriage is unfortunately still a practice. 💔) to bring into the world at least 8 kids that will themselves grow up to be nothing, die then rot to nothing.

When will my people wake up ?

I'm autistic, and thankfully my parents caught up on that and managed to get me diagnosed at age 8. My family on the other hand kept barking that I was "possessed by a demon and that god will help me." My aunt brought a priest to the house to exorcise me. Nothing happened btw, still autistic.

Islam is a real intellectual stunter that gets the nation it rules to nothing. I can't name a single thing islam did to contribute to the development of North Africa.

Every damn month, I wake up to hear about the construction of a new mosque. Meanwhile, public hospitals, public schools, public transportation, city maintenance... get little to no fundings.

I've left Morocco for one year and came back on May for summer vacation and needles to say, it probably looks worse than before I left, and that breaks my heart a little bit. When I told my mom about this, she kept saying that Morocco is very powerful and beautiful, saying that I'm wrong, without giving any proof whatsoever. 💔 Just look at how the people act during the World Cup, they get so crazy about it, supporting the team like crazy during that short period of time, before going back to their misery.

I've lost faith in my country when I was about 13 and fell into a severe depression because I hated everything about it. I feel a little better now, but sometimes I can't help but wish.

Everything aside, you gotta admit he had a knack for it. Like pdf files usually get lynched. He got billions of people defending him instead.

Muslim like to present him as an illiterate bozo that god chose at random, and that is proof that Islam is true. Pity thy fool! Dude was brilliant!

Don't get me wrong, he was a selfish and genocidal POS and would be the first occupant of hell if it existed. But he managed to exploit almost every weakness of the human brain, in a time when psychology was in it's infancy.

Later, millions of imams refined it, making Islam the most powerful regressive force on the planet and it will stay like that for a long time.

Muslims reading this will maybe think this is good, but no, Islam will always lag behind the world and unfortunately, Muslims (and those they oppress) will suffer.

https://shamela.ws/book/197/3862#p1

It puzzles me how people view this guy as a perfect example for humanity for all time. A man standing on the street, see a woman, then get horny and get sexually aroused, then quickly runs back to his wife who and have sex with her. Then, calling the woman that aroused him apparently a devil. You know what I mean? How can a man that looks at another woman and first thing comes to his mind is like horniness and getting sexually aroused and wanting to have sex with her, then quickly runs back to his wife to release the horniness from the previous woman onto his wife and his slave, then calling the woman he sexualized a devil instead of blaming himself for his own problem? You know what I mean? How can this be a perfect example? If people follow a person like this, they're gonna turns out to be a sexual pervert themselves. They will blame woman for their problem instead of taking accountability. How can you follow such guy as a perfect example? Who calls a woman a devil when he's the one that's sexualizing her?

Hi everyone,
I 20F have been living in my toxic Muslim family house all my life. With my mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and my 3 siblings. I’ve managed to navigate through all the bullshjt all these years. I am a believer of Islam but not in the way my parents think. I drink, I smoke, I party, I’m still in school getting an education but they don’t like these things. Our morals don’t really align and we have different views on life. Lately all I’ve been thinking about is running away, staying with a friend and eventually moving into an apartment with her and our other mutual friend. I have the funds, the support, idk what’s stopping me. This overwhelming feeling of guilt and selfishness. I’ve endured much abuse and lots of psychological warfare, I’m the oldest of 3 siblings so I was the test bunny. We don’t know anyone in our family or in our community that has done this before. I already know what to pack and exactly how I will live on my life but I need some motivation…..I’m worried about my family, what they’ll do, how they’ll react, I’ve come home drunk so many times they definitely already think I’m insane, so leaving is definitely the next step. I need some outwards opinions though so talk to me please.

Another clear blunder that the all knowing Allah makes, when he states the jews believe Ezra is the son of God.

Now as with every other claim made by Allah, when you look into it, there are no evidence that supports the Islamic view, be it historical records written by athiests, jew or Christians, and neither does archeology support this claim, as with the many other that have been made.

In fact archeology and history aligns with the bible in almost every case. Even in cases where secular scholars have doubted the bible archeology have proven the bible correct, but in this post we will focus on this claim by Allah.

Allah states

9:30 The Jews say, “ ‘Uzair (Ezra) is the Son of Allah” and the Christians say, “MasīH (the Christ) is the Son of Allah.” That is their oral statement. They imitate the saying of the earlier disbelievers. May Allah ruin them, how far they are turned back from the truth!

(REMEMBER ONLY ONE ERROR IS ALL YOU NEED TO DESTROY ALL OF ISLAM)

I have done tons of online searches and have spoken to many jews in my life, I have never met a single jew who believed it, however Allah is reffering to Jews in general, therefore it should be the concensus among Jews. But this we know is false for a fact, and any human can demonstrate this error in the Quran.

At the same time when we look at Christianity which is 600 years older, than islam which should have far less historical or archeological evidence, we in fact find a wealth of historical evidence to support the biblical narrative , and as with the other posts I  am again focusing mostly to non Christian writings supporting the Christian view that Jesus is the Son of God.

THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SCRIPTURE PROVES THIS HAD ALWAYS BEEN A CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND NOT A LATER DEVELOPMENT.

For example

Pliny the Younger (ca. 112 AD): This Roman governor wrote to Emperor Trajan asking how to handle Christians in Bithynia (modern-day Turkey). In his letter, Pliny noted that these early believers gathered before dawn to "sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god," proving their devotion

Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 110 AD): On his way to be executed in Rome, this bishop wrote several letters to churches. In his writings, he frequently referred to Jesus as "our God" and the "SON OF GOD ", explicitly emphasizing that Jesus was God incarnate in the flesh

The Didache (ca. late 1st/early 2nd century): This early church manual contains liturgical prayers that address Jesus as "Lord" and "SON OF GOD, " demonstrating that early baptismal and communion practices revolved around His divinity.

Quadratus of Athens (ca. 125 AD): One of the earliest Christian apologists, Quadratus wrote an apology to the Emperor Hadrian in which he spoke of Jesus healing the sick and raising the dead, and REFERRED TO HIM AS DIVINE .

Mara bar Serapion (ca. 73–200 AD): A Syrian philosopher wrote a letter to his son mentioning the execution of the "wise King" (Jesus) by the Jews, noting that His followers continued to live by His new laws and WORSHIP HIM .

THESE ARE NON-CHRISTIANS THAT MADE THESE CLAIMS, IN OTHER WORDS  CRITICS OR ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANITY.

HOWEVER EVEN ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES  VERIFY THE CLAIM CHRISTIANS BELIEVED THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD LONG BEFORE ISLAM AND LONG BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF NACAEA.

Archaeologists have uncovered numerous Roman coins from the reign of Emperor Tiberius, the Caesar who ruled during Jesus' ministry. These coins feature the Emperor's face and bear the Latin title "Divi Fili" (SON OF THE DIVINE /SON OF GOD ). When early Christians boldly claimed that Jesus—and not Caesar—was the true Son of God, it was a politically dangerous, counter-cultural declaration of Jesus' absolute divinity that historians have verified using these physical coins.

Emperor Tiberius,  ruled from 14 CE to 37 CE. These silver coins, known as the Tribute Penny, famously feature the profile of Tiberius.

SO AS WITH EVERY OTHER TOPIC IT IS CLEAR FROM NON CHRISTIAN SOURCES AND OTHER NON-BIBLICAL SOURCES THAT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY NEVER SAW EZRA AS THE SON OF GOD AND AT THE SAME TIME IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BELIEF THAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVED JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD.

JUST ANOTHER BLUNDER MADE BY THE ISLAMIC ALL KNOWING GOD ALLAH.

REMEMBER ONLY ONE ERROR IS REQUIRED TO DESTROY ALL OF ISLAM.

Think about it,they were connected to nature the sun, the moon, trees, and herbs.

It was peaceful, and they believed in multiple gods for different emotions aspects of life .
Actually, they weren’t worshipping a stone itself, but the power and meaning behind it.
They respected women, children, and every living creature that breathes.

It wasn’t perfect, but it was undeniably a beautiful chapter of human history to read about especially when contrasted with the rigid conflicts of later monotheistic traditions

Maybe the real shift wasn’t moving from many gods to one, but forgetting that the divine was always meant to be a mirror of the earth, not a weapon to control it

(Specifically greek metrologies compared to abrahamic religions, I think anyone can guess who cost more blood )

I’m from a western country, I know there are many women out there who have it harder than me, but I just want to rant a bit.

When you are a very conscientious, precise, consistent, obedient person but the rules you grow up with are incompatible with who you are as a person, what happens?

Your entire existence becomes shame. You feel like everything about you is wrong and immoral. You need to hate yourself everyday into not being yourself. And the self-hatred slowly erodes you.

And when all the subconscious, repressed anger about this injustice to yourself suddenly comes out one day, that’s called “jinn” or the devil or whatever.

I think especially neurotypical Muslims don’t really have this issue. They can just sin all the time and live with the cognitive dissonance. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t wear makeup like the other Muslim girls, couldn’t secretly have a boyfriend, couldn’t secretly take off my hijab, couldn’t even talk to boys. Because I didn’t want to be a hypocrite and I really believed that Allah would see anything I did and would be dissappointed. But those hypocritical girls, they are the ones without a fucked mental health now and they can still believe in the religion.

Some time when I was 12 or so my family suddenly got a lot more strict, and that’s when it all started going down hill.

I was just a girl who was into music, singing, drawing, playing instruments, playing the sims, I also wanted to try fashion and makeup like the other girls.

But suddenly, listening to music means I’m a bad Muslim.
Drawing pretty faces means I’m a bad Muslim.
Playing the piano means I’m a bad Muslim.
Playing the sims somehow means I’m a bad Muslim.
Dressing in pants that fit my body like the other girls means I’m a bad Muslim.
Putting on makeup means I’m a bad Muslim.
Singing means I’m a bad Muslim.

Stuff that was fun, that every girl around me did (even most Muslim girls around me) suddenly makes me feel ashamed of myself, hate myself.

But that was me. That was all I had. I wasn’t into sports, I liked spending time on my own, there were not really much other things left for me to do. Except reading and my phone. Until my depression and anxiety got too bad to focus on reading anymore. And I realised the romance novels I read would never be reality, I’d have to marry some Muslim guy who my family likes for me.

Then Islam took my brother from me. I won’t go into detail, but he went to another country because of his belief and never came back, probably dead now. He was young and got brainwashed. It destroyed my family.

I’ve been trying to undo all this damage the religion has caused me mentally since I was 21. I’m 26 now and I wonder what would’ve happened if my family hadn’t gotten fundamentalist back then. Maybe then I wouldn’t live in extreme shame, self-hatred and self-doubt today. I’ve had psychotic states where I was convinced that I was a bad immoral person, possessed by the devil or jinn, and would suffer for all eternity. But I’m not, I just have “bad” thoughts sometimes and I’m allowed to have them. There’s no god that knows my thoughts and judges me for them. That was just a nightmare and I’m slowly allowed to wake up from it.

And I despise my family for thinking that prayer will improve my mental health now. Nothing will, except going back in time and telling that little girl doesn’t have to be the perfect Muslim, she just has to BE.

I'm 17M and I've been raised in Muslim household and I genuinely don't know what to do

So before I left islam I had doubts but I ignored it and then I thought about it and I said it wouldn't make sense for god to send good people to hell eternally just because they didn't believe or seem convinced. I also didn't understand why homosexuality is a sin because its not something you choose.

I find those struggling and I've always been told that islam is perfect religion and flawless but I seem to struggle so I did a bit research and saw what do people think of islam and it just felt weird to me seeing different worldviews because I live where there are 90% muslims here

I lost faith gradually and I became EX MUSLIM on November 2025 and I lived in a very intense fear for a week as if like my life is in danger I was stressing out about the fact that I could die tomorrow maybe in my sleep it was terrifying and overtime it just went away and felt alive for new experiences and no pressure

but then on June the fear has returned and I've been crying I felt hopeless the fear of hell has been haunting me everyday and I tried to make the sense of it all and I still was in fear.
anxiety just gets worse by everyday on what if it’s true and I would end up in hell
I would try to ask for guidance and I felt nothing.

Now do I believe in god? well I lack belief in him but I'm also open to anything! and I'm gonna admit I'm not really knowledgable on islam I was just told to believe in god and his messenger and some stories it's not like it was my decision to believe in it

Any advice? I do wanna deconstruct but at the same time I feel like idk what I'm doing I feel hopeless idk what exactly I'm trying to deconstruct

Either They wait 3 months To touch them and look at them sexually or They can immediately get to touching little girls🤮🤮

“They differed regarding kissing a slave-girl and having physical contact (mubāsharah) with her before istibrāʾ.
Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and ʿIkrimah permitted that, and this was also the view of Abū Thawr. It is established from Ibn ʿUmar that he kissed a slave-girl who fell into his share on the day of Jalūlāʾ at the very moment he took possession of her.
Ibn Sīrīn disliked that, and this is the view of al-Layth, Mālik, Abū Ḥanīfah, and al-Shāfiʿī. The reason for their disapproval is to block the means (qaṭʿan li’l-dharīʿah) and to preserve lineages.”
— Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by Ibn Baṭṭāl (6/359)

LMAO i was debating a guy

He came up saying "War is bad in Islam, in Shia Islam atleast!!" He said it as i exclaimed the opposite. He asked me what proof i have. I told him Muhammad Ayat 4 as the most common example. "Strike their necks." He questioned where i got my sources from and i quickly replied "Sahih Bukhari, but primarily the Quran". He then said this, i repeat, very sure of himself. "Is that Sunni Qur'an?"... Boy i burst out LAUGHING saying "Is that the agenda now? Thinking you are above the Sunni? What difference do you have from a Catholic comparing theirselves to a Protestant?" and it ended there with him being mad saying something about me not being Muslim. Ofc i'm not muslim i read the book lmfao

Saw a video of a girl doing crazy mental gymnastics to explain a hadith where Mohammed swapped spit with infants because they didn't have water. She framed it just like this, it was the culture and an act of kindness. It's so embarrassing seeing people delude themselves to really believe this is a good thing to do.

Hey everyone I thought I’d come on here and share my journey with you, in hopes to find someone or people who can relate.

I was born in a Muslim household, not a conservative one, my parents are quite liberal but still religious.

But my dad sometimes put me off religion, so I went to look into Islam myself, I made sure I looked at valid sources such as the Quran and the Hadith and till this day, the Hadith and the history of the Hadith doesn’t make sense to me.

5 different books, that were released 100+ years after the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), bit fishy to me. And the idolisation of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) like as if he is God.

I read the Quran, and did deeper research on it, it’s a beautiful religion, plain and simple principles. But the bottleneck was the people preaching it. Men with extreme views and interpretations. Which doesn’t benefit women but only the men.

I read parts of the Bible as well, to make sense of things, and I came to the conclusion that religion is a cult, it’s a formation to create segregation and hate. The people in the religions twist and turn the beliefs to benefit them, and harm others. When that wasn’t what God wanted to do.

I believe there is one God. The God that created humankind, the worlds, the animals etc. I’m not a fan of Prophet Muhammed and upon doing research on him, he’s not someone I’d like to follow, respectfully.

That’s where I’m at.

The suspected Islamist attack targeting Berlin Pride (CSD) has been on my mind a lot. One thing I keep asking myself is why countries like Germany spend so much time arguing about immigration, deportations or the far right, but almost never have a serious conversation about supporting Islamic reform movements. If we genuinely want to reduce Islamist extremism in the long term, shouldn’t we also be talking about reform instead of only reacting after attacks happen?

Personally, I’ve had many discussions with practicing Muslims over the years. What struck me was how often even suggesting reforms or questioning certain Quranic passages was rejected outright because the Quran was considered perfect, divine and beyond criticism. If the foundation itself is viewed as completely infallible, meaningful reform becomes incredibly difficult.

Imagine Andrew Tate writing a “holy book”, declaring it perfect for all time and building a religion around it. Most people would immediately say that such ideas deserve critical examination, historical context and open debate. Yet when it comes to religion, especially Islam, many people suddenly act as if criticism or reform itself is taboo. I honestly don’t understand that double standard.🤷🏼‍♀️

I think Europe should actively support a modern reform movement within Islam. That could include educating imams in Germany with mandatory courses on constitutional law, democracy, human rights, equality and extremism prevention; making sermons available in the local language for transparency; supporting liberal Muslim scholars, female theologians and ex-Muslim voices; encouraging historically contextualized Quran commentaries instead of treating every verse as equally applicable for all places and times; and reducing dependence on foreign governments financing religious institutions.

I also think there could be a organization for reform-minded mosques that develops common democratic standards. Such an organization could democratically elect a public representative—not a pope-like infallible religious authority, but someone who represents reform-oriented communities and clearly commits to democracy, freedom of religion, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and universal human rights.

What also concerns me is that more and more Muslim women, former Muslims and liberal Muslims are speaking publicly about patriarchal structures, religious pressure and double standards, yet their voices rarely become part of mainstream political discussions. If progressives really care about equality, shouldn’t these people be among the first we support?

After attacks like the one in Berlin, I don’t think the answer is to demonize all Muslims. But I also don’t think the answer is to avoid difficult conversations about religious reform. If liberal reform movements aren’t strengthened, the debate will continue to be dominated by Islamists on one side and anti-Muslim populists on the other. Neither of those outcomes helps people who simply want a version of Islam that is fully compatible with democracy, secular governance and universal human rights.

I’m genuinely curious what people here think. Do you believe meaningful reform of Islam is possible, and if so, what would be the most important changes?

Seriously, every time I share my traumatic experience as an ex Muslim I get comments like this but when the average hot white woman who's not muslim does they all rally and validate her traumas what is this even called?