Imagine if over a dozen Western countries criminalized Islam, if the “crime” could be met with death, often at the hands of the public. This is the *actual* state of apostates in Muslim countries. Even in Muslim communities in the West, we are abused,ostracized, threatened. Yet when we criticize the same belief system which denies our right to exist, it is *we* who are condemned as “hate-mongers”. Even *in the West*, outspoken ex-Muslim atheists have far more to fear than outspoken Muslims – why is that? Even “progressive” Muslims disparage us as “in it for money” (or attention/acceptance), as if smears + threats are an easy price to pay, as if only a thirst for fame and riches can explain why a group ACTIVELY hunted, tortured, killed across the world may wish to speak out. Do Muslims face bigotry at the hands of far-right? OF COURSE, and I know. I’m perceived to be Muslim, I’m still affected by that hate. But if Muslims treated ex-Muslims as the western Right treats them, I WOULD REJOICE at the profound improvement in our state. THAT is the gravity of our persecution- but still, it is *we* who are told to shut up, *we* who are told that “now is not the time”. But if not now, when? When would it be a convenient time for my oppressors to address my oppression? It would be unjust to smear Muslims who fight against bigotry they face – so why is it reasonable to smear those who face far worse? Those who find it easy to sympathize with Muslims but cannot manage the same for those harmed BY Muslims are moral imbeciles at best and handmaidens for murderous religious intolerance at worst. If you cannot distinguish between religious criticism and bigotry, if you cannot simultaneously grasp the necessity of standing for the rights of Muslims AND dismantling the horrors by their hands, then you have forsaken the principles upon which all modern progress stands, and are as damaging to it as any xenophobic bigot.
yet there are 20,000 new converts to Islam every year with women outnumbering men 4 to 1.
That means 80 % of converts to Islam are women.
#FUNNY HOW WOMEN ARE RUNNING TO OPPRESSION RIGHT???
Well, I’m guessing you live in the West. And you’ve been brought up with the mentality that religion is whatever you make of it (a highly individualized approach). Therefore, you’ve never had someone else’s interpretation forced on you. Like girls who have undergone genital cutting in the name of Islam, for example. Not their own interpretation, but the interpretation of their parents. According to actual Islamic sources.
Using the freedoms that your society has given you (like the freedom to choose your religion) to join a religion that doesn’t afford those same freedoms (apostasy carries the death penalty in Islam).
19,000 of those new muslims are also newborns who don’t have the mental capacity to understand what the fuck islam is…so there’s that…
The other thousand are ignorant women thinking they’r marrying for love when in reality, they’re probably throwing their lives away in order to cater to some delusions of someone who hasn’t considered the possibility that they might ever be wrong.
yet there are 20,000 new converts to Islam every year with women outnumbering men 4 to 1.
That means 80 % of converts to Islam are women.
#FUNNY HOW WOMEN ARE RUNNING TO OPPRESSION RIGHT???
Well, I’m guessing you live in the West. And you’ve been brought up with the mentality that religion is whatever you make of it (a highly individualized approach). Therefore, you’ve never had someone else’s interpretation forced on you. Like girls who have undergone genital cutting in the name of Islam, for example. Not their own interpretation, but the interpretation of their parents. According to actual Islamic sources.
Using the freedoms that your society has given you (like the freedom to choose your religion) to join a religion that doesn’t afford those same freedoms (apostasy carries the death penalty in Islam).
19,000 of those new muslims are also newborns who don’t have the mental capacity to understand what the fuck islam is…so there’s that…
The other thousand are ignorant women thinking they’r marrying for love when in reality, they’re probably throwing their lives away in order to cater to some delusions of someone who hasn’t considered the possibility that they might ever be wrong.
I found this article and I was just. What the FUCK did I just read.
THIS
IS
MADNESS
I CAN’T EVEN WRAP MY MIND AROUND THE FACT THAT A HUMAN BEING COULD WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THINK “YES, GOOD, I’LL PUBLISH THIS BECAUSE IT IS AN EVEN REMOTELY REASONABLE PIECE OF WRITING”.
This is the truth:
Most islamic countries DON’T HAVE RAPE LAWS, ALLOW MARITAL RAPE, AND PUNISH WOMEN FOR BRING ADULTERERS.
GO FUCK YOURSELF QASIM RASHID.
AND HE’S THE PIECE OF SHIT “””LIBERALS””” WORSHIP ON TWITTER.
I found this article and I was just. What the FUCK did I just read.
THIS
IS
MADNESS
I CAN’T EVEN WRAP MY MIND AROUND THE FACT THAT A HUMAN BEING COULD WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THINK “YES, GOOD, I’LL PUBLISH THIS BECAUSE IT IS AN EVEN REMOTELY REASONABLE PIECE OF WRITING”.
This is the truth:
Most islamic countries DON’T HAVE RAPE LAWS, ALLOW MARITAL RAPE, AND PUNISH WOMEN FOR BRING ADULTERERS.
GO FUCK YOURSELF QASIM RASHID.
AND HE’S THE PIECE OF SHIT “””LIBERALS””” WORSHIP ON TWITTER.
“But the greater willingness to privately admit to being atheist reflects a general disillusionment with religion & what one Saudi called “a growing notion” that religion is being misused by authorities to control the population. This disillusionment is seen in a number of ways, ranging from ignoring clerical pronouncements to challenging & even mocking religious leaders on social media.
“Because people are becoming more disillusioned with the government, they started looking at the government & its support groups as being in bed together & conspiring together against the good of the people,” said Bassim Alim, a lawyer in Jeddah.
“When they see the ulema [religious scholars] appeasing the government,” he added, “people become dismayed because they thought they were pious & straightforward & just. “
“I believe people started being fed up with how religion is really controlling their life & how only one interpretation of religion should be followed,” said activist Fahad Al-Fahad.”
“But the greater willingness to privately admit to being atheist reflects a general disillusionment with religion & what one Saudi called “a growing notion” that religion is being misused by authorities to control the population. This disillusionment is seen in a number of ways, ranging from ignoring clerical pronouncements to challenging & even mocking religious leaders on social media.
“Because people are becoming more disillusioned with the government, they started looking at the government & its support groups as being in bed together & conspiring together against the good of the people,” said Bassim Alim, a lawyer in Jeddah.
“When they see the ulema [religious scholars] appeasing the government,” he added, “people become dismayed because they thought they were pious & straightforward & just. “
“I believe people started being fed up with how religion is really controlling their life & how only one interpretation of religion should be followed,” said activist Fahad Al-Fahad.”
You can’t be a feminist and support islam, christianity or any other patriarchal cult. You simply can’t. I mean, you can convince yourself you are THE BEST feminist and say nothing about the girls who get their vaginas mutilated thanks to religion, but that doesn’t mean you actually ARE.
Celtyradfem 