Free At Last
2005/02/26
Apostate Success
I was born in an Islamic country to Muslim
parents, but I was raised in the United States. Throughout my life, I
considered myself to be a Muslim, and I maintained a large arsenal of
uninformed apologies, explanations, and blind denials to promote and
defend Islam. Of course, I had never once read the Qur'an, and I had
relied exclusively on what I heard from my parents, my relatives, my
Muslim friends, and the Islamic media.
Then one day, at the age of 26, I decided to read the Qur'an so that I
could become a "better Muslim." The first three pages alone
shocked me with their illogic and obvious contradictions with the
constant claim that Allah was the "most merciful" and
"most compassionate," but I closed my eyes, gritted my teeth,
held on tightly, and pushed ahead with absolute certainty that it would
all be explained and would get better. However, it only got worse --
much worse. After reading the Qur'an, I realized that I couldn't
possibly endorse Islam as a religion, as a philosophy, as a moral
standard, as an ethical code, or even as useful fiction. I determined
that these philosophies and this image of Allah could only come from an
extremely warped and disturbed person who suffered from an aggregation
of the most severe and profound human weaknesses.
Since 1996, I've read and re-read the Qur'an and the Hadiths (which are
even worse than the Qur'an), and I've always reached the same conclusion
-- Islam is an absolute disaster for the entire world, for Christians,
for Jews, for pagans, for atheists, for women, for children, and, most
of all, for Muslims themselves.
I've discussed Islam's fundamental weaknesses endlessly with many
relatives and friends, and nobody has ever been able to respond in any
meaningful way. Nobody has ever been able to manufacture any legitimate
story that indicates that Islam is a useful or positive force on this
earth. From the Islamic apologists, I hear that somehow the Jews are
responsible for my betrayal. I hear that I've been
"brainwashed" by the media, which, according to them, is
Jewish. I hear that I need to understand Islamic "history" to
understand that the unlimited illogic, cruelty, internal inconsistency,
and injustice. I hear that somebody, somewhere in some distant Islamic
country could validly answer my questions, but the people I speak with
can say only that there is some good explanation, but that they don't
know enough to tell me. Of course, when those allegedly wise Muslims
appear, they themselves can't possibly answer the questions and they
play the same game -- it's the Jews, it's the media, I don't know enough
Islamic history to understand, and they know somebody 8,000 miles away
who could explain it all to me. Ultimately, nobody can sufficiently
explain how the Qur'an is anything other than arbitrary, cruel, unjust,
evil, and riddled with evidence that it is based on the most profound
human weaknesses. I don't use those terms lightly or imprecisely or
emotionally. As a matter of dispassionate fact, Islam -- as written in
the Qur'an -- is arbitrary, cruel, unjust, and evil, and it contains
endless conclusive evidence that the founder of this
"religion" suffered from the most intense form of the worst
human weaknesses on earth.
Of course, my life has improved drastically since I actually read the
Qur'an and realized the obvious human weaknesses from which it
originated. I sincerely hope that all Muslims will read the Qur'an and
simply think about whether this religion comes from a good person or a
bad person, from an intelligent person or from a fool, from good or from
evil, from compassion or from cruelty, from justice or injustice, from
decency or from depravity -- however anyone wants to define those terms.
I just found this site today, and I'm thrilled to say that I've found
here precisely what I've been telling people for many years -- Islam is,
in fact, the problem for the entire world, but the biggest problem on
earth for Muslims themselves. Unfortunately, in addition to destroying
themselves with Islam, the rest of the world is likely to meet its end
as soon as true Muslims assemble the weaponry required to destroy the
earth.
It's absolutely imperative that the people who I call "pretend
Muslims" -- who are the vast majority of people who call themselves
Muslims -- disassociate themselves from this bizarre superstition called
Islam and from the few true-believers, who rely on the pretend Muslims
for their strength and legitimacy. President Bush and others are dead
wrong when they say that Islam is a great and peaceful faith that has
been hijacked by a few extremists. In fact, Islam is a vile and violent
faith that establishes extremism and that has been hijacked by the
pretend Muslims who, by their own human decency, have given this
barbaric superstition the appearance of legitimacy to the uninformed.
Best wishes to all,
Apostate Success |
