Badassbab (former Muslim)

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Badassbab
Personal information
Country of origin    United Kingdom Flag of United Kingdom.png
Gender    Male
Age    28
Influences    Amnesty International/Noam Chomsky
Other interests    MMA/Cars/Liverpool FC/Geo Politics/Space/Military/History
Faith Information
Current worldview Agnostic
Left Islam at age 17
Born or convert to Islam? Born into Islam
Parents' worldview Islam

Testimony of Leaving Islam

When I hit 16 and went off to college (UK), I had a bit of an identity crisis. My parents were of Bangladeshi origin but we lived in a predominately white English town so whenever I met relatives, I never felt that 'Bengali' enough and being non white, I wasn't always accepted as English by many either. After a lot of soul searching and research I decided Islam would help give me the inner strength I was looking for. It had a rich history and Islamic civilization seemed to have achieved much (at least in the past).

As I delved more into Islam, I realized it was an absolute religion that demanded absolute obedience since it was the divine truth that surpasses everything and anything in importance. This turned me a little fundamentalist however I also became interested in many subjects (I had been from an early age but now I could study it more thoroughly). One was universal human rights and however I tried to justify Shariah, I just couldn't lie to myself anymore. Islam was incompatible with what I truly believed in.

Suddenly it just hit me. By leaving Islam I suddenly started to ask myself endless more questions than before and each question bought up another until it got to the point I saw Islam for what it truly was from a historical and scientific point of view. Afterward I started to question its morality (since it's such a powerful force in the world today) and the rest is as they say 'history'.



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