Ex-muslims - Articles categorized under "Apostates"


Wafa Sultan on the "evils of Islam"	Millions of people have seen American psychiatrist Dr. Wafa Sultan's debate with a Muslim cleric, which was first shown on al-Jazeera television. In 2006, TIME magazine nominated Dr. Sultan as one of the world's most influential people. Sultan has appeared on many radio and TV shows in English, and regularly writes articles in Arabic that are read throughout the Muslim world. Her main purpose in...
In Islam, one is free to choose her/his religion	[Author's Note: I would like to thank FFI reader Joyce for providing the two apostates web links used in this article] Meryem Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad Many Muslims comment on apostasy and claim that People are free to choose their belief system in Islam. Individuals can leave Islam freely. I have shown in a previous article that Islamic law prescribes the death...
Ex-Muslim receives death threats after publishing article critical of Islam -- in Tulsa	Robert Spencer He criticized all religious belief in his essay. But he's not in fear for his life from an angry mob down the road at Oral Roberts University. "Former Muslim receiving death threats," by Bill Sherman for Tulsa World, October 1 (thanks to Basil): Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a...
Why I Left Islam	Parviz [ One of our editors sent a request to our FFI reader, Mr. Parviz, asking him to tell us how and why he left Islam. We would like to thank Mr. Parviz for his positive response, and would like to share his story with our readers. Below is a copy of his response email to us ] As you may have noticed I often write in the commentary sections of your web site in a style that speaks to the...
Truth Makes Things Simpler	Hi Ali, This is Zakariya. I have read your articles, your book Understanding Muhammad. Truth not only sets someone free, it also make things simpler and that is why my decision to turn an apostate does not took much time. Well. I think maybe it started when by believing that I have found my TRUTH and in the pursuit of knowing my truth more, I started reading the sayings of Muhammad and the quran...
A website dedicated for Rifqa Bary	Here is a LINK to the Rifqa Bary site
Al Azhar Issues Death Fatwa for Apostates	From Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs I received this document from Oda Dridi-Dörffel, Parliament (Bundestag), Ministry of the Interior, the Army (Bundeswehr), Ministry of Integration and the Police organizations. Oda Dridi-Dörffel is an esteemed figure in international circles. Here Oda Dridi-Dörffel presents the actual fatwa issued at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the most important institution...
Sweetness and Sufferings	Family Background I am a 22 years old girl born in Singapore. My parents are both Singaporean, but very strict Muslim followers. As I grew their strictness started to go out of hand as they started disciplining me in just about everything. Pointing out to me things that I should do and forcing me to be something I don’t want to be. I was allowed no freedom outside as well as within the house...
Thoughts of a Brooding apostate	Arslan: Thoughts of a Brooding atheist, an apostate and an anti-theist Greetings to All, The paradigm of change in the fundamental understanding of Islam that the world is currently witnessing is truly astonishing and heartwarming. As though people with relatively stable cognitions have suddenly realized that Islam is, in fact, not a religion but an absolutist political ideology feigning as a...
Saved from Islam	by Saved (Wiil Soomaaliyeed) I have left Islam because life as Muslim became unbearable. Islam does not make sense and is full of inconsistencies that one must never question and accept them as facts. I believe that no clear thinking person can be a Muslim and that Islam is for the poor and the ignorant. It preys on the weak minded and uses violence, oppression, fear, and psychological mind...
A Note From a Secularist	Dear FFI, I've been reading your site fro a about a year and half since I stumbled upon it unexpectedly researching for some articles about Islam, since the London bombings. Born as a Muslim, but raised with lots of respect to other faiths. My family by far the most liberal out of the lot when it comes to faith related matters. Religion was never imposed on us by any means. Mom's greatest...
If You Convert You Die	By: Nonie Darwish From: FrontPageMagazine.com Very few people in the West know what is going on inside the Muslim world and what it portends for them. The fact is that through the dominant media, such as CNN, Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world. The result is that Americans are in the dark attempting...
Will Florida Force Teenager to Face Death for Islam?	Margaret Hemenway Back in 2002, my then-Senate boss, Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) had the good fortune to meet with young Elian Gonzalez in Miami and with his extended Miami family. He was only six years old and his mother had perished tragically at sea on their raft, hoping to bring him to freedom and a better life. The Senator knew after questioning him at length that he wanted to stay in America. ...
Awakened to Truth	Hi Ali, I really don't know where to start, so I shall start by thanking you for the inspiration, guidance and information that you have made available through Faith Freedom. Being a born Muslim, and following and practicing the rituals and prayers as commanded by the faith, I often felt very alone growing up. The problem I faced was that even though I have been constantly taught and pushed...
The Journey of a Pakistani from a Muslim to an Ex-Muslim	Muhammad.A.Khan, June 11, 2009 Introduction This is the story of an Ex-Muslim from Pakistan. Born a Muslim, I am living in the Muslim community observing and contemplating on various dimensions of the inhabitants of Pakistan: their Islamic culture, their styles of living, and their way of commerce. The most important aspect that intrigues me is the inclination of Pakistanis towards Islam. In...
Leaving Islam: Mark Gabriel, an Azhar Professor, tells his story (Videos)	When any decent human being discovers the truth about Islam, he/she just leaves that evil cult. Mark Gabriel was an Azhar professor who went that path. here is his story from his own mouth
My Apostasy Challange For Muslims	Dear Ali Sina, you have a fan here, who thinks quite like you, or if I may say, exactly like you. This fan is me, someone who has talked to you before but is unwilling to disclose it because at that time I was a devout Muslim and now I am out of it. I am pleased to talk to you again, but this time I am on your side (pretty much). I have a very unique idea. This has never happened on faithfreedom...
Apostates Speak Out: Ibn Warraq on Defending the West (Videos)	It is a bankrupt habit of Muslims and Islamic countries around the globe to blame their ignorance, illnesses, dictatorships, famines, and any other evil that comes to mind, on the west. Muslims and Islamic countries forget the billions of dollars given by the west to them in forms of money, food, supplies, expertise assistant,..etc, every year. Those countries and the people in them forget that...
Finding the Courage	Dear Ali Sina and readers, Hey, guys! It has taken me a while to write, but I'm finally sending in my story. I found FFI over a year ago and was astonished at all the facts and stories I have read about Islam. I've been debating as to whether or not I should send in my story. It takes time to find the courage, but thanks to all the articles I've read, the stories of other X-Muslims, the...
Islam's false sense of peace	Hi Dr. Sina, It's me again. Islamic Awareness week is in full swing at my university, and it is incredibly frustrating to watch the spread of propaganda and not be able to speak up against it. To help me deal with it, I have finally put aside all schoolwork and concentrated on writing my testimonial. This way maybe I can reach someone, even if it can't be the people around me. I am sorry it...
I really hated you	Dear Ali I must let you know there was a time I really hated you. “How dare you tell such lies about Islam?” I’d say. But deep inside I knew it was the truth [shock treatment works]. I feel I was kind of conned into Islam, I read all the pamphlets regarding great “scientific miracles” in the Quran. I read how it was the trilogy of the Abrahamic faiths, how if I loved Jesus I should be a Muslim...
Apostate who pities Muslims	Mr. Sina: First of all let me salute you for the bravery and the resolve you have at exposing the lies of Islamists and the teachings of the Qurann. Many a times I thought of writing to you, but have exercised restraint, partly because I did not want to expose myself to more pain. I am a grown up woman with three adult children, I was born into a Muslim family in a North India. Fortunately I was...
My Story of Liberation from Islam	Dear Ali Sina, One of my favorite quotes ever is "truth shall set you free" and you are the one that awakened me a while ago although I never sent you a thank you letter. So I guess I owe a HUGE thank you because you are one of the rare people that helped me confirm that the world I lived in was a big fat lie and nobody even dared to wonder "what if all this is wrong". I'm young, a 16 year old...
An Apostate Housewife	Dear Dr. Sina, I am very much grateful for all of your efforts to establish and maintain FFI. Without it, my eyes would have never been opened and I could never have seen the true face of Islam. I was born Muslimah. Now in my early forties, I am a mother of two wonderful boys. I am living in a Muslim country. 99.9% of my countrymen do not understand Arabic. They blindly follow what the mullahs...
I Am Your Latest Apostate	Hi Mr. Sina, I think you may have landed your latest apostate. I have been on your website many times in the past year or so. Initially it was to attempt to refute your articles. I knew the content of much of your articles which makes me ashamed now that I had the intention to try and refute them. Although I never joined an "Islamist" group, I can very much say my ideology was the same. I...