http://islam-watch.org/LeavingIslam/Why-I-Quit-Islam.htm I was born in a devout Muslim family belonging to Sunni sect of Islam. I come from an Islamic country but currently I live in a western country. During every Ramadan I used to faithfully fast. During my University study, one of my subjects was Islamic Studies. My professor of the subject glorified Islam and taught all the good deeds of the prophet of Islam. I was taught that Quran is the perfect and the best book sent by God. Islam should be dominant and supersede all the religions of the world. However I realized that he never mentioned why the prophet was so violent and killed so many people. He never mentioned the numerous contradictions in the Quran. He was blowing the trumpet of how other people were converting to Islam but he was in a state of denial (just like most Muslims) with the fact that many Muslims were leaving Islam. The Islamic teachings that I received were accepted totally by me in the beginning. I defended Islam at all costs. I hated anyone who criticized the prophet or Islam. However, when I read ‘23 Years of Prophet’ by Ali Dashti, and when I went through various web-sites like Answering-islam.org, Faithfreedom.org, and the Prophetofdoom.net, and had discussions with non-Muslims, I began to lift my head out of the sand. I started analysing the Quran and the Islamic teachings and I realized that the mullahs and the Islamic scholars were hoodwinking the Muslims. From my childhood I hated violence in any form. To my utter dismay I found out that Quran is full of violence. For example, Quran 8:12 (Hilali- Khan) states “(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.†" I discussed this verse with the mullahs and they stated that I have taken it out of context. I replied that the whole Quran has no context and chronology in the first place. They told many lies to cover up. They quoted the Meccan verse (By the way, non violent Meccan verses have been abrogated by violent Medina verses) that says he that kills a man is like killing the whole humanity, and he that saves a man is like saving the whole humanity (Quran 5:32). However this whole verse had been plagiarized verbatim from Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. This Mishnah was present 400 years before Quran. Quran 8:39 (Hilali-Khan) states “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.†The context of this verse is not that Islam should dominate other religions but the only religion in the world and so Muslims should fight and annihilate all non-believers till there is only Islam in the whole world. This tenet of violence and killing made me to dislike Islam and leave it. All Muslims say that Islam is a religion of peace, but I was thinking how this can be a religion of peace when it teaches to kill the non-believers by any method. Again, if any religion teaches to kill a believer if he/she leaves it, then it is not a religion but an evil cult. Islam teaches to kill its apostates. Quran 4:89 emphatically states that all apostates in Islam should be killed. Many references in hadith show that ex-Muslims were killed and are to be killed. Hence, I realized that Islam is not a religion but an evil cult. I was always for the equality of man and woman, but since Islam teaches opposite I had no option but to leave Islam. Quran 4:34 recommends beating a disobedient wife. Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 9, Number 493, quotes, “ Narrated Aisha: The things which annul prayer were mentioned before me (and those were): a dog, donkey and a woman. I said, ‘You have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs.’†Muslim Book 1 Number 142 quotes Muhammad the prophet saying, “O womenfolk, you should ask forgiveness for I saw you in bulk among the dwellers of Hell.†In Islam women are treated like animals with no freedom and equal rights. Three shots from the Divorce gun in the hand of Muslim man “Divorce, Divorce, Divorce†will condemn even the most obedient wife to a life of ignominy and suffering. In Quran there is no punishment for the greatest crime to womenfolk, which is rape. On the other hand if a woman gets raped she will never ever get justice unless she produces four witnesses, who have actually seen the penetration during this horrid episode. This is bizarre procedure to get the witnesses who silently enjoyed the rape scene like in a theatre, and remember that those four watchers should be perfect believers with long beards as well. Another reason why I left Islam is that Quran is full of internal contradictions, scientific errors and historical blunders. Muslims claim that Quran is ‘a miracle of miracles.’ This statement is a blatant and greatest lie ever told. Here are a few samples of contradictions in Quran: examples of internal contradictions-- 54:19 mentions Aad was destroyed in a day but 69:6,7 mentions Aad was destroyed in seven nights and eight days; 19:17 shows an angel appeared to Mary but 3:42 shows several angels appeared; 28:40 mentions pharaoh drowned and died but 10:92 states that the same pharaoh was saved; examples of scientific errors--18:86 states that sun sets in a muddy spring of water; 15:19 mentions earth is flat; 86:6,7 states that semen emits from between back-bone and the ribs; examples of historical blunders—19:27,28 states that Mary was the sister of Aaron, whereas history shows they were born about 1300 years apart; 28:8 tells that pharaoh and Haman were living at the same time and place whereas history clearly shows they were born about 1000 years apart and pharaoh lived in Egypt and Haman lived in Shushan city in Persia; and 4:157 says that Jesus was not crucified whereas it is crystal clear in historical records that Jesus was crucified and not another man who looked like Jesus. By the way, the transliterated name of Jesus in arabic Quran is Isa but even this is wrong because the name of Esau, brother of Jacob (Yaqub in arabic) is Isa in arabic. The correct transliterated name of Jesus in arabic is Yasu. Isa (Esau) means ‘hairy’ and Yasu (Jesus) means ‘God saves.’ Muslims tell so many lies to cover up all internal contradictions, scientific errors and historical blunders in Quran. Any sane person can become sick of Muslim apologists’ deception and lies of ‘out of context,’ ‘bad translation’ and ‘arabic Quran can not be translated’ to hide and conceal the contradictions in the Quran. I was taught to love Mohammad the prophet more than anybody and anything in the world. He was best of creation, and a mercy sent to the earth by Allah. All Muslims believe that Mohammad was faultless, sinless and perfect but Quran 48:2; 47:19; 40:55 reveal that Allah told Mohammad to ask forgiveness for his faults and also for the sins that he will be committing in the future. Wherever Mohammad went, he showed no mercy to non-believers but tortured, raped serially, killed, assassinated and committed genocide. All Muslims have to say ‘peace be upon him’, whenever they mention the prophet’s name, but I discovered in Quran, Sira (biography of the prophet) by Ishaq and all hadith that when he was weak, he tried to follow peace and endured all the scoffing and ridicule, but when he was strong and had a large horde of powerful militants and terrorists, he tore all the peace treaties into pieces and destroyed peace wherever he went. Even till today his followers the Mohammedans i.e. Muslims pretend to follow peace when they are weak but when they are strong they destroy peace and harmony. Muslims tell don’t blaspheme Mohammad the prophet. Islamic countries have enacted blasphemy laws and they torture, imprison and kill innocent persons and minorities over trivial matter. The fact is that man cannot blaspheme man but he can only blaspheme God if he wants to do so. If a person is accused of blaspheming someone then that someone is God. The politically correct western governments and the toothless UNO are doing nothing to protest against these diabolic and wicked blasphemy laws concerning a dead man called Mohammed. Mohammedans i.e. Muslims say Mohammad was a man yet they treat him like or equal to God. Quran 4:80 (Hilali-Khan) tells “He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammad SAW), has indeed obeyed Allah.†This verse reveals Mohammad is equal to Allah. Quran 33:56 (Palmer) says “Verily, God and His angels pray for the prophet. O ye who believe! pray for him and salute him with a salutation!.†The above verse shows that Mohammad is greater than Allah because God does not pray for man. The arabic word used in 33:56 is ‘yusalloo’ which means pray. But other translators of Quran deceitfully translate ‘yusalloo’ as bless. But when the same word ‘yusalloo’ is used in Quran 4:102 those translators translate it as pray and not as bless. Hence, one sees the deceitfulness of the translators here. Quran 49:2-4 and 33:53 reveal that Allah is acting lower in rank to prophet, that is, like a servant to Mohammad because Allah tells the believers to lower their voice and not to talk loudly in the presence of prophet; not to tarry long in prophet’s house and to talk to his wives only from behind the curtain and the prophet is embarrassed to tell you this but Allah is not. Any unbiased man and person with common sense can understand from the above Quranic verses that the author of Quran is not Allah but Mohammad who made himself equal to or sometimes greater than God. Tabari (contains Islamic hadith chronologically) IX: 187 states “Bakr saw that Umar would not listen. He went forward. ‘Those people who formerly worshipped Muhammad must know that the deity you worshipped is dead.’ †Though Islam teaches monotheism yet some verses of Quran and Hadith and Muslims by their actions support and are guilty of dual theism (Allah and Mohammad), prophetaltry (worship of prophet) and Quranaltry (worship of Quran). Since Muslims treat Mohammad like or equal to God, I quit Islam forever. At present I love the message of Lord Jesus who taught love, fraternity and peace in all his teachings. His entire message is love for humanity. Lord Christ died on the cross for the sins of humanity and was resurrected, to save the world. He never ever killed any human but only healed and saved all whereas Mohammad the prophet tortured and killed many. I would not like to even compare Lord Christ’s teachings with the Islamic nonsense of violence, looting, plundering, killing, enslaving and raping the non-believers. I wish that my testimony could open the eyes of other Muslims, who like to live in harmony with non-Muslims, lift their heads out of the sand and quit the cult of Islam. A caveat to Muslims that are brain dead zombies: my testimony is not fake and do not deceive yourselves that no Muslim will leave Islam because Muslims are quitting Islam by scores. All westerners, liberals, leftists, rightists, media personnel, political leaders, government officials and non-Muslims, remember you are all kaffirs destined to be killed and burn forever in hell according to Islam. So please unite, stop being politically correct, help to stop the immigration flooding of Muslims to western countries and don’t be deceived by Islam. Because both types of Muslims, that is, Islamic terrorists who use jihad, bombing and explosions and so-called Muslim moderates who use deception, conversion techniques, and mass population explosions by birth and immigration to western countries, are both trying very hard to achieve the same goal, which is to fulfill Quran 8:39 that states there should be only one religion (Islam) for Allah in the whole world.
Fatwa from 1998 “the ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilian or military—is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.†http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=701610346 “We with God's help call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.“ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1998.html Violence? What violence? I don't see any violence.
Hmmm, just an opinion, how do you know that person who wrote that is who they say they are.. It could easily have been written by a person portraying another identity.. just to say look beyond your own cultural teachings..
It's always a fucking conspiracy with you people. If I take a dump at 6PM instead of 6AM, it's a conspiracy,
Wow that shows your mentality , and do not class myself as one of those people am saying your source doesn't offer any authenticity ..
Hello First I'd like to introduce my self i am a muslim from Egypt and i'd like to say that most "if not all" of what you have said is totally wrong Islam has never and will never be a relegion of terrorism or violence and whoever doing against that he is not following the right passage of Islam There Alot and Alot and Alot of proofs that can prove what i am saying the simplest proof is the Islam Greating "Al Salam Alaikom" which means "Peace upon you" Our Prophet mohammed (Peace Upon Him) has never been a terrorist and has never acted any type of violence against anyone (Except they fought him first) you said you were a muslim so you must have known some or even few examples of what i am talking about (there are much and much) Quran 8:12 (Hilali- Khan) states “(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.†" you haven't understood what have been mentioned here the right way . here allah tells Prophet Mohammed (Peace Upon Him) and his muslim companions that Allah will cast fear into the people who are fighting them "the people who disbeleived" ( as you know when the Islam first appeared alot of people was fighting Islam) so Allah is telling them to fight those people who are fighting Islam and prophet Mohammed So muslims has never fought against people unless they fight them first and as you know when Muslims wanted to reveal the Islam they offered people options 1- get into the Islam "first option" 2- remain with their religion but they have to pay "al geziah"( something like a tax for protecting them dont know what it exactly mean in english) and the people who CAN'T pay it they dont have to "second option" 3-and the last option if they decided not to get into the Islam or Paying the tax and chose to fight Muslims then have to fight them to defend them selves and to defend the Islam Some People will say Why non muslims had to pay "al geziah" and muslims dont have to because muslims already pay "al zakah" and it's one of the 5 main concepts of the Islam and Muslims Must pay it (if they can) to the poor people and so and about the Quran Contradictions that you are talking about there is no Contradictions in it at all 54:19 & 69:6,7 there is nothing wrong at all with them 69:6,7 said it was seven nights and eight days 54:19 said it was MORE than 1 day not one day if you understand it well you will see that it says that the punishment was continous after Allah sent it to Aaad in a bad day for them "i am not good at translating" 19:17 & 3:42 who told you that it didnt happen at different times i mean happenned twice 28:40 shows that pharoh has died 10:92 shows that the same pharoh died but his body got to the surface "dead body" if you read it well you will discover that it states that allah made his body survive so it people after him will learn a lesson about not being like pharoh 15:19 doesnt state that the earth is flat at all this is wrong understanding it means that allah made the earth wide and .. "i cant really explain in english" but beleive me it's doesnt mean that at all on contrast quran states that the earth is like and egg "not even spherical" and that's what science discovered later please check 79:30 it you will find that it exactly mean that the earth has a shape like an egg 18:86 states that "zo al quarnayn" saw the sun sets at muddy spring of water but didnt state that it does set there he just saw it sets there please read well and understand it the way it should be 86:6,7 thats stating that it comes from the bones between the legs and from the nerve system of the backbone " i cannot translate well" but beleive me it's stating the right thing 19:27,28 Mary was the sister if Aaron why did you think that this Aaron was the one at pharohs era? Aaron here is another one Can't two people just have the same name !!!! is that too strange !!! 19:27,28 about this i dont know about Haman in persia it could be different people i will check that 4:157 yeah that's a truth and All Muslims beleive it i dont know how to prove it but it will be proven sometime but i currently cannot prove it who said the Prophet Mohammed was faultless there is no one who is faultless and all people must as allah forgiveness for anything wrong you did in your life and to let you know Allah told mohammed that Allah has forgave him for all faults he had made and all the faults he will do but his companions found that he was always asking Allah For Forgiveness they asked them why he told them allah forgave me for al my faults shouldnt i be thankfull for Allah You are saying that we say that Mohammed is equal to Allah that's absloutly Wrong there is no God But Allah When someone obeys what Mohammed says then he Obeys Allah SIMPLY because Mohammed was saying what Allah Instructed So when Someone Obeys Mohammed He Obeys Allah it's very clear and simple i dont know how can you doubt in such a thing And you are saying that Mohammed is greater than Allah Please dont repeat that again it's ABSLOUTLY wrong you know pray here doesnt mean prayer or thou like the prayer in mosque it means bless i dont know why do feel strange because a word in arabic has two different meanings in all languages there are words that have different meanings ( i cant count them even in english language they are alot) and when we come to woman here NOONE and i mean when i say NOONE can ever dout that Islam has gave woman her rights more than any relegion in the whole world you are saying silly things about rape and so i dont beleive that you yourself beleive what you have said do you beleive that 4 witnesses have to be there and witness it and ....etc NOWAY Dont you know that islam Instructed Women an girls to wear the (hegab) to cover their hairs and to cover their body and wear a bit wide clothes so their body dont appear Just tell me the truth what do you about that? do you feel that Islam is bad for that? or you think is Islam doesnt want that girl to go and do bad things and people look at her body ? i dont know how do you talk about woman in Islam Please ask some good muslim in a mosque ask him about woman in islam and he will tell you infinite things about the woman value in Islam all people know that and who told you that we want to kill or murder the Non-Muslims? let me ask you something you said you were a muslim did someone ever told you to kill Non-Muslims ???? have you ever heard anyone telling people in mosque or anything to kill Non-Muslims? if you hearn so the you must know that the one who is telling that is misleading you Isalm was never and will ever be a religion for terrorism or violence I'd like also to tell you that in the holy quran there are alot of things that the modern scince has discovered recently i will give you examples you know the skin is what makes one feel pain or so in Quran it states something about the disbeleivers in the hell that when their skin got burnt from the hell Allah will replace that Skin with another new skin So they will live in pain forever 4:56 that skin info wasn't known to science untill the world war when they found out that soldiers with burnt skins dont feel the pain Another thing In Quraan it's said that every thing in the world is motion 21:33 another thing In Quraan it's said that Allah brought the Iron down to the earth and it's a truth that the pure iron doesnot exist except in the Meteoroids that fell down from the outer space into the earth 57:25 another thing In Quraan it states the several stages that the baby has while he is still not born it was stated exactly in Quaran and you can check 23:12,13,14, Lastly I'd like to say that Islam is not a relegion of terrorism or violence no it's a relegion of tolerence and peace but the problem is that many muslims that have gone away from the right passage of Islam are making it doesnt look as it is supposed to be please people dont accuse Islam and muslims of being terrorists because of individual or some bad actions that some stupid people do Thants all i want to Say Please Know better about Islam from good sources and then you will know that all i am saying is truth Any way Sorry for my bad english and I'd like to tell all people in the world (Peace upon you) thats out greating and i'd like to say Ramadan Mubarak forall muslims Thanks Adel
All packs of lies and contradiction . It was muslims who invaded all the countries and plundered , looted and murdered people. Didn't they invade India , didn't they involved in everything wrong. Had Indians gone their to pick up a fight with them? I don't know how you convince your self with these pack of lies and dare to tell these lies to other people. I am happy that you have specified three conditions which every muslim ruler laid before other non-muslims. This itself shows how voilent the religion is ?
what are the packs of lies and contradiction that you are talking about? Muslims has never been murderers and have never did violent and the conditions i said showed how tolerence they were not the opposite if they didnt want to pay the tax and wanted to fight then they will fight them what do you expect them to do just stand and wait the others to kill them???? and what i am telling is not lies and if you searched and checked you will find that all i have said is true but as you like if you see that these are lies then it's your thought many others dont consider it as lies and really believe in it let us just dont accuse each other of lying and so everyone just explain his point of view that's all
This is too generic.. you shouldn't use "never" no matter what religion you belong to. Generic statements always cause confusions and will be ignored completely For example, I hate statements like "Hindus/Christians/... have never been murderers".
It is your ignorance man . How Islam has gone to unknown lands and crossed limits of insanity? Where is the question of picking up fights with Islam? Do you feel it is justified if all the non-muslims countries giving these option to muslims?
I think you have not listen Dr. Zakir Naik please go to this page http://www.urdupages.com/showthread.php?t=55561 and there you can find video's on every topic. There is not a Single contradiction in Holy Quran. Moreover, there you can see that there are many video is available which shows that Islam is totally depends upon science and establish science does not approve a single verse of Quran wrong.
Moderate islam is a subculture of terrorism - bingo - fact's are talking louder throughout history until today. The books, like quran, sunnahs and haddiths have interesting records which are not to compare to the parabels we know from the scriptures. No interpretation neccessary or valid. It's written with many details, all the acts commited with utmost cruelity. If your prophet would walk this planet these days he would be hunted more than B Laden.
It all comes down to "Islamiphobia", and people putting muslims in a general category. Not all muslims believe in what has happened and actually are disgraced by it. Quotations out of the quran are distorted by non followers and given irrational theory to add further question to there beliefs. Any one who tries to shed light or understanding of the culture is classed as "you people", regardless of being another religion or not.. It comes down to common survival tactics and is much easier to undermine the alleged enemy than agree...
Seems dilip is blind and cannot see the fact. He should firstly try to know about Islam and then he can say whatever he wants.