[jennyp]

She said she no longer practiced Islam. "I am a secular human being," she said.

What a heroic woman. And to resist the urge to abandon one mystical religion simply to go join some other is doubly impressive.

[madconserv]

Yes but I'm afraid she may have blown it with that statement because now many Muslims will not listen to her. "She is no longer one of us. She is brain washed by the Infidels." But, yes, she has nailed it. Join the 21st century.

[goldstategop]

That's a death sentence. Ibn Warraq had to remain anonymous after renouncing Islam and the same is true of the pseudonymous contributors to the book on Leaving Islam that he edited. The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. There are no free thinkers among Muslims who can be faithful and still be good Muslims. The clerics do not allow questioning of the Koran and more importantly their interpretations of it. This brave woman gets doubly condemned for saying what Islam is not prepared to acknowledge and because she is a woman, who happens to be a second class subject in Islam. Its a cult stuck in the Middle Ages and as long as it remains there, its appeal to the rest of mankind as an intellectual and moral force will be limited.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[JABBERBONK]

Actually she is naive and silly, to declare she is an apostate, and then give advice to those of the religion she has left is hopelessly naive. She needs to go to the next logical conclusion and condemn Islam outright, or her arguments will be dismissed.