Aisha A. (former Muslim)
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My Testimony of Leaving Islam
The followings are 10 reasons why I want to give up my faith:
10) Throw down the hijab as if the only thing that stands out between men and women is SEX as hijab I wear, as I am told, is to prevent men from being excited. Isn't the most powerful sex organ between the ears instead of between the legs?
9) Give up my five times a day prayer For what? Why would the Almighty Allah be so unsecured that He wants me to turn toward him like Marlin Brando was in the movie 'Apocalypse Now' as he was worshiped by his hundreds of savages? I believe it's far greater to help with my hands of those in need than to pray with my lips.
8) Give up fasting during the Ramadan why go hungry from sun rise to sun down? Hungry? who I am kidding!! In fact, I tend to eat more during that month as my weight scale speaks the truth. In reality, hunger is 'euphemism' used by Muslims for 'pain & suffering' as they claim to feel for other poor (Muslim) souls. For a change, I plan to donate food to an orphanage run by the Buddhist temple in my town during the month of Ramadan.
7) Spend the money I have saved for 'Hajj' just imagine how pathetic we look circling around that black rock kissing a meteorite infected with millions of germs from diabetics to aids patients (besides it reminds me of the toward-the-end scene from 'Midnight Express' in which a dozen of lunatics in prison moving around a tall rocky structure), and to top it all, we enrich hate-mongering Saudis with billions of dollars gained from the World's largest tourism, Hajj and Umrah every year and yet we are treated like a second class citizen by self-proclaimed custodians of the Holy Land.
6) Abandon the ritual sacrifice of cattle/sheep why continue this barbaric act of gluttony during which time we slaughter millions of those helpless animals more for vanity and ego than out of necessity.
5) Stop being submissive to men around me I shall begin talking to men by looking directly into their eyes and demand to be treated like an equal. I am tired of taking the back seat 'cos. I refuse to believe that men are superior to me. I look around in my community and see not one single woman I can be proud of. In my opinion, we have been kept unproductive in society for too long while men control our lives under the pretext of dignity & honor. They can take that 'dignity' and shove it because dignity goes out the window when you have nothing to feed our hungry child and consequently hunger turns you into selling your body like many women are seen prostituting on Tehran street today.
4) I shall get me a dog today while the World adores this creature as a most loyal pet, the Muslims shun, as instructed by the Prophet Mohamed, away from it citing that they are less sanitary. Hello!! my best kafir friend has one and she is 10 times healthier and smells better than all of my cousins and relatives. Besides dogs are the only animals known to protect their masters with their lives.
3) Starting today, I shall take full control of my own life including finding a suitable mate. How ludicrous it is to let others arrange my future with a male whom they have never spend a night or live with. I look around me and see many of my female cousins were shoved into marriages at young age with no choice and they all look like they are just 'existing' rather than 'living', except my cousin, Sophia, who married her college sweetheart.
2) I shall stop donating money to the mosque which is run by an Imam whose one-dimensional-seventh-century-minded teachings have influenced my brothers and uncles to be hateful and divisive toward anyone who doesn't worship the same God. He even preaches that a good woman is one who obeys her husband. What a male chauvinistic pig! Besides, who gives them (Imams) the direct phone line to Allah as they meddle in our lives from bedroom to bathroom to our kitchen.
1) and finally I decided to love all mankind and to do it effectively I know I have to abandon my faith.
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