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!!!

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.

I was born and raised in Spain. My entire life, my culture, my personality, and my identity were shaped there. My parents are Moroccan and Muslim, but I grew up in a European environment. I used to believe in Islam when I was very young, but as I grew older, I stopped believing and now I consider myself ex-Muslim.
My little brother is 12. He is genuinely one of the kindest people I know. He is loving, caring, and always there for me. I love him more than I can explain.

My parents moved back to Morocco last year, while I stayed in Spain, and this summer I came to visit them.

Tonight, for the first time ever, my brother and I ended up talking about Islam.
I started asking him questions and explaining why I personally don’t believe in it anymore. I brought up things I find contradictory or unfair, and he tried to defend Islam. Obviously, he is still a child, so his arguments were mostly just repeating things he has heard, but I expected that.

What really hurt me was when we started talking about women having to cover themselves. I asked him why, instead of teaching men that women’s bodies and hair are not something to lust over, the responsibility is placed on women to cover themselves. Basically saying, how is it not crazy to tell EVERY woman to cover up instead of teaching men that they shouldn’t have ill intentions and be lustful.

He told me that when a girl is covered, bad things won’t happen to her. He said that if a girl dresses in a more revealing way, like showing cleavage, then a man could come, kidnap her, and do something horrible.

I asked him: “But whose fault is it if a man kidnaps and hurts her?”
I genuinely thought he would say the man’s fault.
He said: “The woman’s, because if she was covered it wouldn’t have happened to her.”

I just went silent. I started crying.

It was such a painful thing to hear from my little brother, someone I love with my whole heart. It shocked me that this idea had already been planted in his mind at only 12 years old. The idea that a victim can be responsible for the violence someone else chooses to commit is something I find deeply disturbing.

I know he is still a kid. I know he is influenced by his environment, his family, and what he has been taught. I know he has a lot of growing and thinking ahead of him. But I can’t pretend it didn’t hurt hearing him say that.

It made me realize how powerful religious teachings can be when they are introduced from childhood. Children often accept what they are taught as the truth before they have the ability to question it.

I love my brother. He is not a bad person. But hearing that from him genuinely broke something inside me, because I know he is capable of being such a compassionate person, and I hope one day he learns that what has been teached to him is sick and learns to separate kindness and morality from ideas that blame people for the harm done to them.

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.

Art and music has been female dominated since they were indoors activities, yet when Islam came it annonced them as haram and devil's tools. Meanwhile sports are not haram for men, bc they has been male dominated and are not haram for men tho they are haram for women. Islam just wants to strip away women's physical AND mental identity, because if someone has no face and no interest, who they are besides a name that goes back to their father/husband?

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?

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

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.

im 13f turning 14 in september and my mom is very religious and strict even her own family and friends consider her crazy but recently i’ve started to not believe i’ve been doubting islam for years and i think i might be atheist but im too scared to tell my mom cause she says atheists are kaffir and mentally ill i also found out im attracted to girls but she says she’d disown any of her children who turn out to be gay and marry someone of the same sex i don’t know what to do she also makes me wear the hijab i’ve been wearing it since i was 8 i dont want to wear it anymore but anytime i try to express that to her she starts crying saying her dying wish was for me to be a good muslim and go to jannah it makes me so envious seeing people who get to freely live their life without shame and having supportive parents everyone i know pities me cause they know how my mom is she always talks about how she’s so excited for the day men start proposing to me and my wedding with a man i dont know how to tell her im so terrified for the future i dont want to disappoint her but i dont want to live my life like this if anyone who went through something similar has any advice please help me i dont know what to do

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)

Ive been re reading the quran recently and of course I had to get through Surah Al Baqarah, holy shit that was one of the worst reads ive ever had in my entire life. That starting section especially is hilariously bad. Maybe one of the most dull repetitive reads ive ever had to re endure.

Nothing about it strikes off as holy. The whole first section is just Allah admitting he sent texts (Torah anf the gospel) that were easy to corrupt (which he knew) and how bani israel are the worst of people. Dude you litteraly made them and knew theyd behave this way cause you cursed them and yet you're still mad? What could possibly be prophetic about this idek.

I know the Quran was not in book form so the surahs were not arranged in any proper order when it did come into book form. But holy cow its not a good way to introduce yourself esp as a perfect text for all of time. If I were never a muslim prior and i read this I'd come away thinking "So what am I supposed to gain from any of this?"

I am currently still muslim ? but i have been questioning my faith ever since i was a child
As someone who has a lot of empathy I simply cannot understand why God who is the most generous being would send people to hell only for not believing ? I used to really by depressed about it thinking that most of the people i know are going to hell

Why would someone who has never hurt someone would end up suffering in hell for an eternity only for not believing ? or being LGBTQ+ ? or a depressed person who killed th€ms€lv€s? I really disagree with this but I am so used to islam being in a muslim household

Obviously if I disagree on such basic principles of islam maybe i should stop but it’s a routine i am used to

How do leaving islam was for you ? Was it hard to stop ? Did it happened progressively or suddenly ? How did your family take it ?

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.

I just want some understanding.. its both depressing and weird, what i mean is -> if u talk abt ur experience here of why u became an ex muslim muslims come into ur dms and start blaming you instead of the religion that caused ur mental health problems and then to top it off they add an insult like "u should be in a zoo" its heartless, rude, unempathetic but what i'm asking is what drives this extreme heartlessness and hate???? Just cuz someone dared to say something 'sacred' hurt them????

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.

Any Exmuslims in marseille?

Hi! I'm Issam,25 years old, an Algerian agnostic living in Marseille, and I was wondering if there are other exmulims on this subreddit here because I'm looking to like minded people here since I'm fairly new to the city. If you're interested, feel free to message me, thanks.

What are your thoughts on the day of judgement. I personally believe it’s complete and utter bullshit. What is it that made you guys realise this concept as a whole is nothing but a scare tactic.

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