Reasons why I left Islam
10 reasons why I left Islam over two decades ago
Top 10 reasons why I left Islam:
1. Irrational hate of the Jews: Everything that is wrong, is apparently the fault of the Jews, even to this day. Especially strong with the Pakistanis. How can you hate a whole group of people when you have not even met a single person from their group? And not just current Muslims, the act of the prophet give way for this hatred to be embedded in the religious coding of Muslims.
2. Irrational hate of all polytheists: Destroying all their idols in Mecca and mocking their gods, are not the action of a benevolent or pious prophet. It paved way for Muslims doing that all over the lands they forcefully colonized.
3. Not allowing any dissent or to leave: No room for doubt, no room to ask questions. Everyone and anyone can be tried for blasphemy and can be jumped on by pious good muslims for merely speaking words. No allowance for leaving the religion, even when you are born into it and you choose to leave when you get older. No, the penalty is death. Well, if that is the way then my life is forfeit.
4. Prophet was a sexually depraved warmongering paedo: (that became the first top reason the more I uncovered it) - connected with it, child marriages. He waged wars after wars. It was famously said that he himself never killed anyway, and never raised a sword. Well, I always thought that was cowardly. Not leading your men. But at the same time, it is not virtuous to keep on waging wars and forcing others to join Islam. Warmongering death cult. And married a 6 year old, and consummated the marriage when she was 9? Really, and I supposed to find that acceptable?
5. Quran is badly written: very incoherent and without any sense of spirituality like the religion. Also, Quran is a direct dictation by the prophet, later compiled together after his dead and not in chronological order. If you read the events which preceded the revelation of Surahs, you would see why they are the way they are, as they are a justification cover for either the prophet’s actions or his intended actions.
6. The religion combined with Sharia is not much different to Communism: it is easy to understand Islam for a Westerner if you under life under communism. Completely and utterly suffocating, devoid of any independent thought and individual civil liberty.
7. Subjugation and restriction of women: to be free, as they want to be. All the laws are for women. I found it so odd, that they kept telling women to cover themselves so men don’t lust after them. My response always way, well if you are supposed to be a good pious Muslim then you should control your gaze and clean your heart, so you are not lusting after any and everyone?
8. Lying being permissible by Allah: Different derivations of it and in different circumstances. People in the West know it as Taqqiya but that is just a Shia sect of Muslim’s practice. Lying for political and strategic gain over your enemies. Within Sunnism, as I found it to be, it was not a desired act even in war. But there was still an allowance to lie if you were being tortured - lying to say you are not a Muslim anymore so the torturing can stop. As long as you didn’t mean in your heart, allah will forgive. I didn’t agree with it. Gods are not meant to be reasonable. They are meant to be unreasonable, so when you eventually fall short of the standards as would be expected, you can ask for forgiveness and salvation. That journey is meant to be about pursuit and not destination.
9. Lack of spirituality - and all about descriptive guidance to life: Islam is deprived of almost all spirituality. Everything in there is about how to live your life according to the rules, how to think and how to be and on and on and on. To gain spirituality, you have to almost put yourself out of the religion. The concept of Wali (saint) was created so that those people could live outside the bounds of religion to be able to think freely. They are actually those who from Islam but are not bound by its restrictions. It is almost a form of Deism. Out of which almost came the concepts of Sufis. But it told me that to find the true meaning whether divine or not, you have to be outside of the islamic bounds.
10. The concept of sex slaves - and it not being seen as outdated as well was a huge problem for me. Why would a God allow you to treat other humans like this while saying at the same time that under him all are seen as equal?
FYI: This list is of the initial doubts I started having at the age of 15/16. Which was 22/23 so years ago now. It certainly grew in the following years the more I dug into it. I would say it took me around 6ish years from that young age to finally cut ties. I am not sure if it was bravery, or just remaining true to myself and my own morals that led me to disassociate.
I firmly believe now that Islam can in now way be considered a continuation of Abrahamic faiths, but rather a corruption of that tradition, and which is why it needs to be thoroughly rejected in the West.
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