Ex-muslim Here to answer any questions you might have

[agnostic102]

47. i envy

you yuiyoshida, because i never see buddhist having to constantly apologize for there religion. Or constantly have to prove to people that you people are peaceful. It gets tiring to keep having to tell people islam means peace when its more about submission. you get tired of having to explain why stoning to death someone is somehow justifiable. Imagine having to live in a country where every elected leader , police, military, and goverment is kim davis face staring back at you. And instead of her telling shes going to pray for your gayness to go away. They are going to hang your gayness away. Im sorry to sound so crude but when you see 19 year old kid hanging by his neck desperately kicking at the air in an attemp to stop being strangled to death. you lose a part of you. of course im not sure why they were killing him. It could have been because he was gay, or had sold drugs or was part of a outlawed group. But sharia law is not something to be messed with. And when its the law of the land you are desperate to leave it if you cant fit in it.

I was born with a intestinal disease that required multiple hospitalization. One day me my mom and my sister were leaving a hospital and being so young and sick i was to tired to walk. My mom exausted from spending the nights with me at the hospital had my sister who was 16 or so at the time carry me. She struggeld to keep her hijab on and carry me at the same time. Caused her hair to show. A women police guard in full chador (full covered except her face) came screaming and yelling at my sister to cover her hair. Of course at this point with me asleep in her arms her hair cover was coming off more and more. Which made this women even more mad. My mom who was several feet walking behind us intervened and in a motherly tone told the young women " dont you see this poor sick child shes holding, how do you expect her to keep her chador on" the story as it was told me years later by my sister reminded me of the daily struggles women had to go through under sharia law. My wife and i might be pregnant. What if shes a girl? how can i wish for her to live under sharia law? or if she is raped and becomes pregnant that crazy religous poeple would force her to go through a pregnancy from rape. We have to evolve from religion. We just have to. We cannot be politically correct about the kim davis of this world we just cant. And every follower of his or her religion has to be CRITICAL of there own hosue of worship. We have to self criticize self think self evolve. When you question a religion and that could mean a death sentence or being shunned by your community means that were still in the dark ages in some manner.