Posted on 05/19/2008 6:40:27 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
I hope that my tale can provide guidance to others thinking about renouncing Islam. Before I start I can tell you that the day I renounced this faith was a rebirth for me. I feel like a new person, a better, smarter, more lucid and rational person then I was before. From being just another sheep, blindly following the sadistic, violent, pederasty and irrational teachings and actually convinced that they were well-meaning and peaceful to opening my eyes and seeing them for what they are has been life-altering. I wish the same for all my brothers and sisters still trapped in the realm of Islam.
I am lucky to be a Saudi born to relatively liberal and affluent parents, though they are still Muslims, just not the fanatical kind. I was educated in the USA which is where I had my first exposure to other faiths and began to first have my reservations about Islam, especially when I compared the violent, warrior life of Mohammed, with his sexual lusting compared to the piety and decency of Jesus Christ (whether or not the tales be true, I refer merely to what is written of Jesus). I had asked many of my questions to my imam in Boston who would reproach me for daring to question the teachings of the Koran. Mohammed could have sex with whomever he wanted because he was Mohammed. The murder of the Jews of Arabia was just because Mohammed said so. Mohammed saved us from idol worship so why they hell do we walk around a black stone dressed in beach towels? None of the questions was he able to answer, nor has anybody else since.
I was leaning away from the faith but the decisive moment for me came on 9/11. As a Saudi citizen, I was scared to the core. I was waiting for the angry mob to kick down my door and tear me to pieces. My fear was quite rational coming from a Muslim perspective. If Mecca or Madina was ever attacked by an American then I’m sure this fate would befall westerners living in Saudi Arabia . The control, sensibility and ‘christian’ decency (though I prefer to call it human decency) exhibited by the American people was moving. I was never threatened or harmed. My American friends never second-guessed my profound disgust with the actions of my compatriots. I realized that this level of humanism and compassion is positively impossible under Islam and that I affectively was no longer a Muslim. My life since then has been wonderful. I’ve opened my mind to so many ideologies and philosophies, almost all I can say being infinitely more humanistic and logical than Islam.
Do I feel stupid for having worshipped this violent pedophile for so long?
Yes, I do, but I console myself with the fact that it wasn’t my fault and that I have had the inner strength to leave his grasp. I moved back to Saudi Arabia shortly thereafter and my father wondered why I no longer prayed or accompanied him to mosque? Had America made me godless? No, I told him. America had made me aware and there is more god and spirituality and goodness in my heart than ever before. He was initially saddened by my renunciation and cried (I must here point out that my wonderful father is a great man, as most Saudi fathers would have disowned their children and even had them imprisoned and tortured for such an act) but he thought I would come back to the flock. I never did and 3 years have passed since I broke the news to him. I have since moved to Dubai where I can live freely and decently away from the grasp of Wahhabi Islam (though Dubai still has a long way to go) and my father and I have never since spoken of my apostasy.
That was until 2 weeks ago when I came back to Saudi Arabia to visit my family. My father called me to his room and with a sad look on his face apologized to me profusely. “For what” I asked him. “For questioning you and for praying that you would come back to Islam” he told me. In the conversation that transpired he told me how upon his retirement he began reading the Koran daily and other religious books of Islam. What he read horrified him and in time he too renounced Islam. He has found solace in the teachings of Christ who he believes is a true prophet, unlike Mohammed. He wants me to take Christ as my savior but I told him that for now I’m quite ok on my own. We’ve found a great common ground in apostasy and I can say that both our lives have changed for the better.
To Muslims still trapped, I know that insulting the faith may only drive you closer to it so I will only ask you one thing. Read! Read the Koran, read its teachings, read about Mohammed’s pederasty and warring and decide that as a rational, 21st century human being, knowing all that we know, that this man is really the prophet of god and the path to paradise. I think you’ll come to the same conclusion that I did."
The positive end to the article a few months ago about doubling visas for Saudi students is that more of them have the chance to realize what this guy did.
Mohammed saved us from idol worship so why the hell do we walk around a black stone dressed in beach towels?
LMAO! Best line.
What till this young man gets around to reading about how the prophet dumped the 350 plus idols and only left his father’s Allah idol alone in the kasba. Allah is but a stone figure. He will really *hit himself silly.
Before I run around distributing this to interested parties, how credible is the publication source?
The original article is from some place called Faith Freedom International. I don’t know anything about it, but Islam Watch is very credible, or at least that’s the impression I get. It’s dedicated to telling the truth about Islam. I don’t think they would run this article if it weren’t credible.
It is a great story. I only wish that it could be repeated 500 million times tomorrow. We have a very long way to go.
The father’s reaction reminds of an opposite reaction that I’ve seen. The man I’m going to marry was born & raised a Shi’i Muslim. Some in his family are religious, some are not. His father is non-religious & is of the type that says, “All religion is a bunch of silly crap.” Won’t even fast during Ramadan. Never prays or shows up at a mosque. But when my boyfriend wondered out loud if he should convert to Judaism, the father got visibly irritated. & when he got mildly curious about Christianity & wanted to visit a church just to see what it looked like, his father threatened to throw him out of the house. His father doesn’t believe in Islam, but can’t imagine life without his Muslim identity.
Before I run around distributing this to interested parties, how credible is the publication source?
I don’t know if it is fake but it is accurate.
One heckuva father...
I'm kind of skeptical (like 'know et al') that this story is anything more than a 'parable'. Truth, yet not a factual event. Primarily because the players in this story show uncommon courage and reason. Having been brought up in a cult, and locked into it (by penalty of death), it has to be awfully hard to break free. And for two in the same family to do it (first the son, and then the father) -- seems hard to believe. But who knows, the Lord can do anything.
Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
I sorry to say it probably not because of his father’s concern of life without a Muslim identity, but instead reflects upon the overwhelming hatred of Jews you see in Islamic society.
If you want a real eye opener, I would refer you to www.memritv.org. Memritv.org provides translations of Islamic TV programs without the filter you usually see in the MSM.
Type in “Jews” in the search engine and you will find seemingly rational people saying some of the most extraordinarily insane and vile things about Jews.
Remember this isn’t some nutjob spouting vitriol on some nutjob website. These are academics, researcher, religious leaders on mainstream TV stations. And not the run of the mill holocaust deniers and Protocol of Zion promoters, but some real craziness.
Below is a real gem. A Egyptian college researcher, on the equivalent of Egyptian PBS, is seriously discussing that Jews use the blood of slaughter Christian children to make Passover matzos. Note the attitude of the TV host, he really taking it seriously.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1393.htm
Now if your boyfriend really wants to freak out his father, instead of saying he wants to convert to Judaism, he should announce to his family to he wants to convert to Sunni Islam.
Oh, that would be some real trouble.
Oh sorry to not have included it in my previous post.
Here a clip from a Saudi TV children’s program discussing whether a Muslim should be allow to convert to another faith.
The opinions of these Muslim kids is very illustrative.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1623.htm
Well, the reason his father grumbled but said nothing about my boyfriend’s wondering if he should convert to Judaism is because I am Jewish. So it was an irritation to hear, but long past being a shock. His more vocal reaction toward the idea of visiting a church just for fun probably reflects his real feelings & is closer to what he would have said about Judaism if not for my existence. I’m a Jew from an Arab country, by the way, but not the same country as my boyfriend. :)
Their reaction to him becoming a Sunni...I can think of one uncle who would definitely freak out, but some relatives of his are intermarried with Sunnis & there was no objection to it. His family is an exception, though, since they are not too religious. When he went to Shi’a school, a frequent insult among the kids as they got into fistfights was to call each other Sunni.
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