An ex-Muslim

Submitted by Mohsen Qaed (Bahrain), Jan 25, 2010 at 21:40

So, I was born and grew up in Islamic country ( Bahrain ) to Muslim parents surrounded by a religious father ... 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. I had relied exclusively on what I heard from my Father, my relatives, my Muslim friends, and the Islamic media.

As a Muslim I vigorously denied the existence of thousands of Gods claimed by other religions, but I was irritated when someone denied the existence of my God. I had an emotional attachment to my belief. My beliefs are now based on logic and reasoning and not emotional feelings.

As living in an Islamic society, I was mindlessly and blindly in demand to pray and worship mysterious God!!!

Well, I was a victim like millions of other Muslims who've been brain washed. By false promises and exaggeration Claim. I have recently found out that I was so gullible who believed some myths, and have known that religion been created by some religious and political to control people and keep them in line .they knew that the best idea to control primitive people was to surround them by religion. To convince them that God had given them verses. it's obvious that religion is viciously oppressive ideology that stifles progress and individual freedoms....on the one hand, God is supposed to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-wise, and on the other hand he is savage, brutal. God of extermination, genocide, assassination, Murder, hate, terror, torture, brutality, slavery and rape.

It's extremely confusing to people who are looking for the right path. Hard for them to get rid and cut off the seed of the false dogma that were planted in their minds, and been passed from generation to generation. I myself emancipated my mind, cleared my head and eradicated the ... dogma that contaminated my mind, my head, and my whole life.

Finally I could escape from the tyranny of Islam, and now I can see with total clarity that Islam is myth ... !!!

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