I am an ex Muslim. Ask me anything.

In my first few months of being non-Muslim I missed having that time to reflect. Now I meditate which is thousands of times better than prayer to clear the mind. Not Buddhist either, just adopting a working practice of theirs
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The reason for the downfall of the religion is the Muslims themselves!

Hey Brother. Just stop replying to this thread. I gave the thread starter an honest answer in the kindest way. And he/she started bashing me for being arrogant. It made me laugh, because I was sincerely trying to help him.
And you know what? He also reported one of posts for trolling! I never trolled in my answers I'm sure about that. But I request you to just please report this thread, because he's indirectly trying to insult all Muslims and mislead our brothers and sisters.

Thanks.

I think about what is harmful to others and what is not. If it is harmful then I think it is morally wrong. Of course this is simplistic but the idea is that I think about it; my morality is self made.

I came into contact with gays and sexually active teens, but the biggest factor certainly was that it dawned on me as I grew older.

No I haven't. Well, come to think of it, while half conscious i saw this 5 ft pale lady walk in through my door and then just vanish. I think it was my head playing games. But what I am more sure of is that you are referring to a religious experience rather than an odd supernatural one haha.

My mum certainly has noticed me being a bit more relaxed - she noticed i don't do friday prayers or fast at all anymore, though I am sure it doesn't cross her mind much. My friends have tried and asked me to go pray with them on fridays and they used to ask why I don't go anymore to which i used to reply, I am not so practicing (which sufficed after some persistence). They have since gave up with trying.
As regard to openness, yes. I argue with my parents against arranged marriage usually and how it is damaging to certain parties involved and stuff and they kinda started agreeing with me, which was quite surprising.

Lying is harmful to the others, so why not stop? but you don't have any motivation to make it stop!

"Aisha's marriage being consummated when she was 9;
Slavery;
Jihad;
Misogyny.


Just a few"

Do your research before making false accusations.

My motivation comes from something deep within myself. I want to stand by my principles.
It doesn't come from a book written 1400 years ago

And I have researched, thank you!

Why were you half conscious? Odd supernatural ones are cool too.

Have you retained any somewhat religious ideas - like, do you believe in ideas like spirits, djinn, angels? Would you prefer for yourself and your children to wait for marriage to have sex?
(More related to culture...) Would you prefer to marry a nice (former?-)Muslim girl than something else?

Did you ever pray and feel you were answered?

Do you have younger siblings or cousins who look up to you? If so, do you worry you'll be a bad influence on their growing up in faith?

I was nearly falling asleep.

And no, not really. I don't believe in jinns, angels and all that stuff.

Because it is quite a big issue. When your whole family are devout Muslims and your cultural upbringing is based on Islam, it's kind of hard to get away from it. Not to mention the stigma that generally exists in the Muslim community about apostasy, so many of us go through a lot of our teenage lives not telling our family.

In my experience, Christians tend to be more lax about this sort of thing. On average of course.

Lets see the sources.

Thank you

Do you believe it was a dream? Hallucination? I'm referring to "i saw this 5 ft pale lady walk in through my door and then just vanish".

It's just that something similar happened to me too while I was half awake i.e. seeing a pale person suspended in horizontally in midair beside the bed for a few seconds and then disappearing.

I am pretty sure it was a hallucination or even a dream. And yeah, similar, except this pale person was walking, not suspended in mid air, with a small basket, and as soon as I woke up (or became fully conscious) the pale person just disappeared.

Hey Brother. Just stop replying to this thread. I gave the thread starter an honest answer in the kindest way. And he/she started bashing me for being arrogant. It made me laugh, because I was sincerely trying to help him.
And you know what? He also reported one of posts for trolling! I never trolled in my answers I'm sure about that. But I request you to just please report this thread, because he's indirectly trying to insult all Muslims and mislead our brothers and sisters.

Thanks.

That was the first idea I got though. I won't say anything he/she can change her religion 100 times. I am amused by people who do it for fun and I am more amused at the reaction in the way they do just leave it. Anyone who has any firm beliefs specially if Islamic won't be acting in the way people do.
Peace No worries !!

still its odd to go and introduce yourself as hey im an ex muslim ama.