Ched (former Muslim)
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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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