Ched (former Muslim)

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Ched
Personal information
Full name Chedly
Country of origin    Tunisia Flag of Tunisia.png
Gender    Male
Age    33
Faith Information
Current worldview Atheist
Left Islam at age 33
Born or convert to Islam? Born into Islam
Parents' worldview Islam

Testimony of Leaving Islam

I was wondering why there aren't any Tunisians in your list and decided to add myself.

Well, I'm a Tunisian, born Muslim to Muslim parents. My parents practice a moderate Islam, as do most Tunisians. My father used to drink beer sometimes when he was younger. I remember seeing him having a beer with friends when I was 6 or 7 and I was so angry about it because I didn't want him to end up in hell.

My main Islamic education was from school where I was taught that Islam is the true religion, that only Muslims go to heaven and that Islam is a religion of peace. I even used to pray 5 times a day until maybe 14.

After that, I was never really into religion so I never suffered from being a Muslim, or almost (each time I drunk alcohol or I had a non-Muslim girlfriend my conscience would torture me a bit. I also didn't want my children to be apostates, which could happen if I marry a non-Muslim girl).

I never doubted Islam until the day I found a French book in my uncle's place. It was a book by Genevieve Chauvel, called "Aïcha : La bien-aimée du prophète". It told the story of Aisha and when I read it I discovered that not only did the apostle have more than 4 wives (some of whom he took just for his own pleasure), but he also committed genocide against the Banu Qurayza tribe.

I was literally in shock. I couldn't even finish the book. I couldn't believe what I had just read, so I took the Qur'an tafseer we had at home and read the story of Banu Qurayza from it, and it was the same story of genocide. I told my mother about this, and she couldn't find an explanation.

Well That's all I needed to leave Islam. If God existed, and if he wanted to send a message to us, he wouldn't do it through a mass-murderer. Religion should be about love and harmony and couldn't be mixed with cold-blooded killing.



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