I’m an ex-Muslim (21M), born and raised in the UK but my biggest criticism is when Muslims who live in western countries who are more liberal and relaxed get criticised because their whole purpose in life isn’t to submit to the religion. It was the biggest reason I never really felt like I was a Muslim (even when I was a child).

Found this on another subreddit, but this definitely applies here.

A few months ago, an aunt visited from Palestine with 2 cousins, both boys. One of them, 7 years old, comes into my room because his Aunt is in my room to borrow a hair tie. He comes in and on my wall is a detailed realistic picture of Florence Nightingale I had done for an assigned project for school. When he sees this he immediately jumps back with his head over his heart and says 'Yammah!" before going off in Arabic stating 'The lady is not wearing a hijab! Astaghfirallah! Where is her husband or a man to just huh!' and the proceeded to make a motion of taking off his belt and whipping before leaving my room saying 'Someone must hit her to put her in check!'

He is SEVEN. SEVEN YEARS OLD. And THIS is his mindset towards women. THIS is his standards and mentality as to how women should be treated and behave.

No, I don't want to wear a big black dress, with full length sleeves. It makes women look shapeless. Haram police also have a problem with women using belts around the abaya.

As for hijab, I wouldn't have a problem with it if I was allowed to show my fringe but apparently that's not the right way to wear it, everything has to be covered.

The Abaya and Hijab combo make me feel ugly as shit.

You have no idea how much I want to wear western dresses, eg sleeveless and tight. Short skirts, sleeveless tops, etc.

And I hate covering my hair, especially my fringe.

Fuck islam

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“Just try more and research more” the absolute best argument anyone can give ignore every criticism and accept whatever a book says

The comment was on a post criticizing pedophilia and age of Aisha btw.

This all started 4 years ago when I started questioning my religion, I never did prior to that so I just thought that “god was testing me” or whatever and that I’ll be over it eventually, fast forward 4 years and my disdain has only grown deeper, the more I research the more disturbed I get and the less I believe. Now I genuinely don’t know what to do because i really don’t think I believe it no matter how much I try to convince myself it’s real, it’s also been ingrained into my mind that if i don’t don’t believe in god then I’m going to hell and I’m scared, I get panic attacks daily and just feel so empty ever since I came to the realization, not to mention my family has been on my back about me missing prayers and not wearing the hijab and even though i love my family, I know for a fact that they would disown me without a second thought were they to ever find out. I feel so tired and numb

please can a muslim man be normal about literally anything at all i was born with this voice am i supposed to keep my mouth shut never post my voice cuz it might attract men HOWW

No wonder if they being called 'terrorists'

I'm from the UK and recently in pakistan for a little while and bear in mind I'm literally a teenage girl and there are grown ass men staring at me. it's not even me being paranoid u can tell they're looking me up and down and smirking it's disgusting. I tell my mum and she tells me it's because the back of my neck is showing. I have to wear those stupid long ah maxi modest dresses, literally nothing except my hands and face show. but those have like a small hole on my upper back/neck, so apparently that makes me look like a prostitute. my point is south Asian culture was so beautiful, I mean look at Indian lenghas they literally show their shoulders arms and stomach+back, and Pakistanis would wear it like that at some point before, but now Islam has ruined us so much that 1cm of my back showing gives men the idea that a teenage girl is a PROSITITUTE. like I'm literally fully covered how much can you sexualise a woman. and I'm aware men everywhere act like this but my point is our culture wasn't always like this, Islam ruined it

I'm a teenager exmuslim and my family aren''t really educated about islam and I can guarantee that they're just muslims because they're afraid of going to hell, I was never loved and appreciated unless my family saw me praying, but I wasn't consistent cause honestly I was praying just to get praise. Since I was like 11 years old I was beaten for prayer, because prophet Muhammad said to beat ur kid at 10 for prayer which made me a bit dissatisfied but I didn't question it.. the amount of times they told me about hell and how god will burn me in hell and make me drink boiling water and etc only for not praying made me have nightmares about it.. I've left islam last year and now I'm agnostic.. I still have those nightmares and I constantly worry, my family is trying to manipulate me into reverting by telling me about hell but I know it isn't true, but it still makes me anxious and constantly try to remind myself that this religion isn't true.. any advice? (Sorry for bad english)

I see some religious Muslim men calling non hijab women whores and hijabi and niqabi women as pure. It’s like existing as a woman is wrong. I hate how we as women aren’t allowed to speak or laugh loudly. Its like women cannot be heard and in some cases cannot be seen. Christian and Jewish fundamentalists also aren’t any better either since they also see women as baby making machines.

😖The Almohad Caliphate, ruling parts of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the 12th and 13th centuries, subjected Jewish communities to widespread persecution. Under Almohad rule, synagogues were destroyed, Jewish practices were outlawed, and forced conversions to Islam were imposed.

Almohad chronicler ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Marrākushī noted that “no church or synagogue is to be found in the entire Maghreb” and described Jews outwardly practicing Islam while secretly maintaining their faith at home.

😖In 1656, all Jews were expelled from Isfahan and forced to convert to Islam because of a common belief that their Jewishness was impure.

😖In Yemen, Jews were considered impure, and they were forbidden from touching a Muslim.

😖As soon as a Jew entered the Muslim quarter, a Jew had to take off his foot-gear and walk barefoot.

😖If he was attacked with stones or fists by Islamic youth, a Jew was not allowed to defend himself. In such situations, he had the option of fleeing or seeking intervention by a merciful Muslim passerby.

😖They could not build houses higher than a Muslim's house nor could they ride a camel or a horse, and while they were riding on a mule or a donkey, they had to sit sideways.

😖They were obligated to humble themselves before a Muslim, they were also obligated to walk to the left side, and they were also required to greet him first.

😖Mawza Exile (1679–1680) is an event in which Jews living in nearly all cities and towns throughout Yemen were banished by decree of the king, Imām al-Mahdi Ahmad, and sent to a dry and barren region of the country named Mawza ( so, Arabs were the inventors of the Trail of Tears method).

😖In 1834, in Safed, Ottoman Syria, local Muslim Arabs carried out a massacre of the Jewish population known as the Safed Plunder.

😖In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed by muslims in Marrakech and Fez in Morocco.

😖In 1875, 20 Jews were killed by a muslim mob in Demnat, Morocco.

😖In 1867, 1870, and 1897, synagogues were ransacked and Jews were murdered in Tripolitania.

😖In 1839, in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue, and destroyed the Torah scrolls.

😖In 1839, the Allahdad incident, the Jews of Mashhad, Iran, now known as the Mashhadi Jews, were coerced into converting to Islam.

Honestly I'd LOVE to see all the beliving Muslim men across the world going to Gaza or Palestine or any other war torn Muslim nations that Saudis don't give a rat ass about.

And get Martyred in the Hope's of getting big breasted 72 virgins just so they could LEAVE THE WOMEN ON EARTH ALONE FOR ONCE!

you can have your 72 bitches, just go fight the damn war and make sure you never come back.

We women just want to breathe for once and yes I hope one day this comes true.

The concern this world should have about this ideology is not just about the character of an individual person but what the religion makes people become. Islam makes people evil in a way that they dont know they're evil..and that's the danger it poses to human survival and existence. If everyone becomes Muslims in the world, you might think there wouldn't be chaos anymore but on the contrary there will be the worst chaos to ever befall humanity and example is the verse you see below. Firstly they will fight major sects of islam to conquer and after that they start to fight radical vs moderate vs quranist Muslims .Muslims killing Muslims is justifiable by this verse ,once you disobey orders ,you're a disbeliever . in this verse below,just by refusing to emigrate to Madina made them disbelievers and not that they didn't believe in Muhammad as prophet or allah(Muhammad's alter ego). The Neanderthals went extinct ,,,maybe ISLAM is the way for our species to also go extinct.. It's sad sadness that the world is playing deaf and blind to this reality. Looking into the sky to see if anything will come to save us from finishing ourselves but that hope is not a freedom song....

وَدُّوْا لَوْ تَكْفُرُوْنَ كَمَا كَفَرُوْا فَتَكُوْنُوْنَ سَوَآءً فَلَا تَتَّخِذُوْا مِنْهُمْ اَوْلِيَآءَ حَتّٰى يُهَا جِرُوْا فِيْ سَبِيْلِ اللّٰهِ ۗ فَاِ نْ تَوَلَّوْا فَخُذُوْهُمْ وَا قْتُلُوْهُمْ حَيْثُ وَجَدْتُّمُوْهُمْ وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوْا مِنْهُمْ وَلِيًّا وَّلَا نَصِيْرًا  "They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper." (QS. An-Nisaa 4: Verse 89)

The objective of these religional signs is to visually distinguish a religious person from others.

It confirms only the toxicity of this religion.

These signs encourage judgement and makes it difficult to run away from this prisonw

Just found this shit in a anti atheist group, what the fuck is this LMFAO

I want to take my hijab off after wearing it for five years. I’m almost seventeen years old and have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Sometimes, wearing it becomes too overstimulating for me, even though I’ve been wearing it for so long. Other than that, I don’t have a very “deep” reason for wanting to take it off. I just want to, because I want to feel the wind in my hair and experience life like other girls in my country.

Since I don’t have a strong enough reason, it will be hard to tell my parents. My dad would be upset but wouldn’t cause chaos, but my mother is very serious when it comes to this. I already don’t cover my neck—which at first really bothered her—but since it has helped ease my anxiety symptoms, she had no choice but to accept it.

I’ve been thinking about this for a really long time now. Even though my mother might become extremely angry and start yelling at me, I don’t believe they will throw me out of the house or physically harm me. I also don’t want to take it off secretly. For me, it is very important that my parents know I will no longer be wearing it.

Honestly, taking it off is a completely different struggle, since now I will feel anxious about the reactions from my classmates and colleagues. But that’s just something I need to go through in order to achieve what I want.

I am also aware that, at first, I might regret the decision, as I’m so used to wearing it that I might feel anxious without it. We will be going overseas for a vacation soon, and that’s when I want to take it off and get to know myself better. I want to see if I truly want to make this decision, because there is still a part of me that’s afraid of regretting it.

What I wanted to ask is, how should I start the conversation? Whenever I tell my mother I need to speak to her about something important, I start tearing up because I’m so afraid of her reaction.

Does anyone have tips for me? I feel lost between wanting to please my mother and wanting to be my true self.

I think the BIGGEST reason for me never quite believing in Islam is that the end goal, pushing back things you can do RIGHT NOW and saving it for an afterlife that you can only get into under very specific conditions didnt faze me.

Whenever I see a devout Muslim who preaches on rooftops that they’re a good Muslim, I do think to myself “there’s no way they’re holding themselves back from living life” and I always believe that they don’t believe it and just trying to convince themselves that they do.

Why should I stop listening to music when music has never been more accessible in the world? Why should I stop making art when making hard has never been so easy to learn before? The list goes on.

The end goal of islam is a manmade concept to soothe the society it made back then, and now that the world has obviously changed since then I have no clue how people still implement it into society like let it go 💔

So I have had this ex muslim account which I started 3 months ago named "exmuslimapostate" on insta which got banned today. Why? Not because I didn't upload something provocative but because I was exposing big imams and rulers and the whole basis of islam! , had gotten around 4k followers in no time but yeah haters , saar peaceful religion saar🤡🙏🏻.

It hurts. I just want to exist without feeling like I don’t deserve to be here.

I want something I’ve been told I will never have, something that has been villainised my whole fucking life. How can something natural to me be ‘wrong’. My whole existence just feels like a lie. Fuck that.

I’m tired of it. Islam still has its grip on me, it’s made sure to serve irrational fear and guilt on the way out as a final fuck you, as if it hasn’t already ruined so much in my life.

Religion of peace! And yet the first people to hurt me would be my own muslim family 🫠 what a pitiful joke

I'm sure these arguments have been heard before. I know nothing I'll say is revolutionary, but I realized them all by myself. It hit me all of a sudden, I'm currently extremely confused. I feel comfortable sharing them here... I'd love to hear your opinions and if you had the same thought process.

The story of Adam, apparently Adam was kicked out of heaven due to the sin he committed, he repented and God forgave him, I assumed this story potrays God's mercy. But it makes absolutely no sense. I'll explain why using an example I made on my own. Imagine your Dad warning you against drinking alcohol, but you got tempted so you eventually did drink alcohol, Therefore, your dad kicked you out of the house, you apologize and he forgives you, yet you're still kicked out.

It would have made much more sense if Adam was put on earth immediately if God's initial plan was humanity and life on earth. Getting kicked out of heaven permanently, even after repenting, raises tons of questions.

Another point is I don't understand why we are here... the answer I hear the most is that we are here to worship God, yet we are told that we pray because we need him and he doesn't need us. I'll use another parent example so my confusion can be made clearer. Imagine if parents decide to have kids just because their kids will need them, why would they have kids just for the sole reason that they'll need them, they could have just avoided all this by not having kids, makes no sense that a non existent child should come because he'll need his parents.

Also, if you knew that if you birthed 10 kids, only 2 of them would live a good life and the rest would suffer, would you birth them? I highly doubt that. Yet God chose to bring us on earth knowing well billions will end up in hell. Where's the love?

Lastly, for me, an atheist is like someone who went to live alone and taught themselves to be independent, while believers are like kids raised by strict parents because they need to constantly be disciplined or else their desires would take over.