Sammish (former Muslim)

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Sammish
Personal information
Country of origin    Morocco Flag of Morocco.png
Country of
residence
   
United States Flag of United States.png
Gender    M
Age    52
Faith Information
Current worldview Atheist
Left Islam at age 24
Born or convert to Islam? Born into Islam
Parents' worldview Islam

Testimony of Leaving Islam

Discontent with the pack of lies that clerics and general public believe in. I was a lay Muslim (you can call that moderate, but it is much less that that). My questioning of some of the Islamic tenets began when I started to read the historical books of the old apostates in the libraries of an American state university. I was then 19 years old. It was an eye opener. What really did it for me in terms of a total rejection of Islam was Mohamed's deeds and actions in his early phase of the establishment of the religion. As a kid I thought this so called prophet was infallible. Of course, it turned out he was an opportunist who although wanted to unify the Arab tribes with a religion comparable to the Hebrew prophets. He failed miserably. He did the worst things in order to accomplish that. It was militarianism and totalitarianism. I believe that among all monotheist religions, Islam is the less spiritual, in fact it is "spiritual-less". The Sufi's and fakirs tried but were murdered. Islam then and even now is rather a dictatorship of symbolic domination.

There are many books that have opened my eyes I would like to name some who really have been instrumental in starting me in a journey of discovery of the real truth about Islam:

  • El-Tabari's The books of Kings and Prophets (Volume 6? dealing with Islam early phase).
  • Ram Swarup's Understanding Islam Through Hadis
  • Bertrand Russel's Why I am not a Christian.
  • Ibn Warraq's Why I am not a Muslim came at the right time to substantiate all that I have thought about Islam.



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