I have a few questions:
What made you decide to leave your faith? Was there one reason or several?
Do you think your reason or reasons for leaving your faith could be applied to others, or provide more moderate guidance towards their religion?
Do you have any optimism that the moderate voices of Imams, practitioners, scholars, leaders, etc. will win back their influence? If so, what steps would need to precede this influence?
ISIS appears to be a really violent and unique group considering their level of propaganda and media skills. So bad that even al Queida has condemned them. The fact that they hold territory, and were quite ambitious enough to declare a caliphate, how would you best implement a counter to this? Do you think war (not just air power) is the answer? What other ways besides war would or could work in decreasing ISIS's influece, or at least mitigate the damage they cause?
Do you think the United States should step back and let other nations take a more prominent role in ending this conflict?
Without revealing any information regarding your safety, are you in peril now?
What do you think of all of the calls for databases, fences, refugee situation, calls for deportation, hate speech, and general xenophobia? Have you yourself experienced some of this?
Sorry for all of the questions - but I think this is very interesting, that as a former Muslim, you gave us a great opportunity from somewhat of an authoritative voice, to glean more information about ways to deal with this problem, rather than us just speculating or just being intellectually lazy and have our unconditional response be "kill 'em all" as I've heard online and in public.
Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity!
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