[AppyPappy]

Keep in mind that when you leave Islam, you aren’t leaving a religion. You are leaving a culture and a family because it is viewed as a rejection of the group. Many practicing Muslims only follow the culture. We had a Muslim convert at our church. He couldn’t tell his parents because it would be insulting them.

A coworker was Muslim and he had only been to a mosque in the US one time. He lived in Appalachia and there are few mosques. His father took him but condemned them as “unbelievers” because it was a different sect. I can’t imagine saying you are a Muslim but you have only been to a mosque one time.

[daniel1212]

Keep in mind that when you leave Islam, you aren’t leaving a religion. You are leaving a culture and a family because it is viewed as a rejection of the group. Many practicing Muslims only follow the culture. We had a Muslim convert at our church. He couldn’t tell his parents because it would be insulting them.

Yes, like among Jews of old, and yet that culture is itself a good thing, except when you differ on the most integral aspect of it. Today, American "culture" is organically thin and superficial.

[Elsie]

Keep in mind that when you leave Islam, you aren’t leaving a religion. You are leaving a culture and a family because it is viewed as a rejection of the group.

This can be said about any exclusive religious group that claims that their way is the ONLY way.