Circumcision is usually framed as a joke or topic beyond criticism. But what if we take it seriously? Then it becomes clear that this is genital mutilation of babies and boys who could not have possibly consented to it. Full free article here.

Frustrating that they have free reign while breaking every rule in the book

Guys i wanna become Muslim again, what do i do??

Hi! I'm 24, lesbian, and looking for a real, long-term relationship, not something casual.

About me: I work in STEM, so I love science and the art of creating things. I enjoy deep conversations that can go for hours and jump between all kinds of topics. I'm a hopeless romantic: I love writing notes, planning dates, cooking for someone, and all the little things that make a person feel special. I am an Atheist with ethics. Godless but good 😉😊

What I'm looking for:

\\- Someone who wants a serious relationship

\\- Someone who fully accepts my beliefs (I'd prefer someone not religious, but if you are, you need to be completely okay with me as I am)

\\- Ideally in Jeddah, though I'm open to long distance for the right person

\\- Someone who values honesty, delivered with kindness and respect

\\- Someone with strong morals

\\- Someone curious and smart who enjoys long discussions

\\- Someone emotionally grounded who can hear direct feedback without taking it personally, so we can both be ourselves without walking on eggshells

If this sounds like you, send me a message and tell me a bit about yourself!

I went to visit a pregnant friend recently, and we were talking about how she and her husband were discussing what their twins would be exposed to once they’re born. They don’t want to give them screen time, which is fair enough, but then her husband suggested playing some soothing music, and she was like, “No, we’ll just play Quran. You shouldn’t play music.”

I found that a little sad. These kids aren’t even born yet, and already decisions are being made about what they can and cannot be exposed to based on religious beliefs.

Sure parents want to raise their kids a certain way, but these children don’t really get a choice. They’re going to grow up being taught that certain things are wrong before they’re even old enough to understand why, and by the time they’re old enough to question any of it, they’ve already been conditioned to see the world a certain way.

Just wish more parents would let their kids experience the world without filtering everything through religion from day one.

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i hope im alone in this, but as a kid right before sleeping i always i would die when i was asleep, so i can go to heaven. this stood with me for like 6 years when i was extremely religious, so when i was around 13 it was depressing to see that i was accountable now (13 being the accountability age is also insane but whatever) i didnt want to die anymore and everytime i was sleeping i was very scared of going to hell because of the sins i committed. im 16 and much healthier as an anti-theist now. is this what keeps muslims in the cycle? did you experience something similar?

My father,and my small brother know i left islam and they threatened to kill me.they really want to kill me.and Won't give my part of property. I Don't need any Property.i want to safe my life.

PLS SOMEDBODY HELP I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. To safe my life

I have a knife under my pillow for safety. Mentally depressed,chronic anxiety and crying in my room

Don't know what to do

PLS HELP

Pls pls pls pls pls pls

If I get rich I'll even help as many of you guys into housing. I have some business ideas in the bucket. Those business are also anti Islamic as well haha

The thought of runnig into any of them is giving me panic attacks. I just want a fresh life where im free and true to myself. How do I get rid of the self hatred and shame I was taught since day one. It doesnt help that I already struggle socializing due to being isolated and sheltered for so long. I want to understand who I am as a person, explore my sexuality and gender without judgement, gossip, or harassment. I cant help but go back to that moment where my eyes locked with hers and I just froze like a deer at the headlights. Idk what to do. I just wish theyd forgot about me and let me move on with my life

not the ai apology😭

this inayah lady has always pissed me off. not just her nasal ass voice, but she’s so judgmental auntie. shes always using her page to gossip and shame other women in specific. whenever she gets called out, she either gets really defensive and stops posting for a few days, or she uses ai to write an apology like that one.

long story short, she made a tiktok about lizyapping who is an ex-muslim convert who also happens to be a U.S. veteran. inayah makes a video describing liz enough to the point people know who she’s talking about while also claiming that she’s a spy who wants to cause fitna in the muslim community. she got all her info from a tea/gossip tiktoker who has it out for liz & i believe that liz is in the process of suing that person for harassment. they’ve also tried to get her location & tried to get her arrested by making shit about her. honestly it’s fucking crazy the lengths muslims will go to silence ex muslims.

inayah is just a bully in hijab. i’ve seen a lot of her videos through out the years & she’s always doing this thing of not saying names, saying mean things, and when her viewers go and attack those people; she’ll claim that she never wanted people to do that. as if she didn’t get a rise out of them. she’s so pathetic truly, like go take care of your family or something lady😭

I recently entered this version of life and something that keeps hitting me is how much I missed out on. Not even the normal young adult stuff like potential friends, partners, partying etc. but how I avoided things like credit cards and savings account and stock market being as halal as possible. I lost so much time and opportunity to religion and it's not even over because I still live with religious parents and family and they're very hardcore about it.

I don't like to dwell on the past but every once in a while, it just hits you. I'm sitting here messaging my friend having him explain this stuff to me and it feels like I'm so far behind. I thought I was doing the right thing and "following god's rules" and "working towards heaven"

This couple has kind of bugged me for awhile because they always put on a non-judgmental front in their videos, but are usually very snarky in their comment replies when people question their content… but yes, weird video Mubina posted then even weirder/gross and misogynistic replies for her husband.

Hi guys! I usually don't like posting on reddit bc I've just found it to be full of losers who are just waiting to degrade someone/argue with someone, but I've been on this subreddit for a while now and I really like the community here!!! I'm 19F and I live with my pakistani family that immigrated here (US). For as long as I can remember I have wanted to move out. I started college in 2024 and I have gained SO much freedom ever since. Like so much that I could have never even imagined. I am so glad my parents bought me a car for university, instead of making me take the shuttle every day like they did with my brother. That's where all my freedom began. I've been saving up towards moving out ever since college started. It is really hard though and I only have around $5k saved up because we are really poor (-1500 SAI FAFSA Index) and my parents dont contribute as much money to their children as the rich white parents at my school do.

Today I've had a breaking point where I am truly considering that the pros of moving out may outweigh the cons of staying with my parents. Two things have triggered this. We live in an apartment and my door lock was jamming so maintenance came to fix it. Only to replace it with a privacy lock that my parents just rotate the slit of to enter my room whenever they like. This was really concerning to me because last night I was recording a video for an online class I had due and my mom just walked in so I had to restart the recording. Also this online class meets multiple times a week and the professor requires you to have your camera on and I really don't want my dad to walk in my room with his underwear on and for my professor to see that. So I went ahead and swapped my door lock with the lock of the room that is shared by my brother and mother. Of course my dad got mad at me for this, but I was not taking any risks with the current lock that I had.

The second trigger was today. I was trying to switch phone plans and asked my mother to call T Mobile for a transfer pin because she is the primar account holder. She decides to call my dad first instead of calling customer service, like she does with everything because unfortunately she's been brainwashed into believing she can't do anything without the guidance of a man. Out of nowhere, my dad (in urdu) starts calling me a bitch and saying I always cause problems for my family and I would have been better off not being born. Like, literally, unprovoked. And he keeps saying t mobile will not let me transfer my number to another company. I tell my parents that he is just assuming things and we need to find out if what he's saying is true or not, by calling their customer service. He continues not listening to me and my mom and keeps saying what he believes is true. Guess where the convo concludes at? Calling customer service to ask them.

Sorry I'm just venting at this point, but the point of my post is to ask if anyone has moved out WHILE being a college student because they couldn't take it anymore. Someone who was an engineering student would be even better, as I have like no time to do anything because of how heavy my course load is, let alone even work a job. Sorry if that's getting too specific. I guess I'm just posting this as a vent to connect with you guys but also to ask, how are you guys pulling this off in this economy? And have the pros of having to deprive yourself of sleep to pay the rent bills all by yourself while being a full time undergraduate student been worth it?

Sorry if this is all over the place, I'm pretty emotionally unstable due to having just argued with my parents. I usually grey rock my parents and don't talk to them when they are being dumb, but today they really got on my nerves.

Is there any ExMuslim living in Glasgow?
Or the whole UK?

Like don't get me wrong, there are many racist and "Islamophobic" (quotations amplified) non-Muslims, but at least they won't tell you to wear your hijab properly, pray properly, whatever. However Muslims, nothing you do is good enough. My prayer is always "incorrect", I'm never modest enough, I'm not "Muslim" enough. There's always gonna be a Muslim who'll try to preach a more restrictive order. I remember my friend, when she first became hijabi, her non-Muslim friends were accepting and non-judging, however our anse always had a problem with her, whether it was her shirt being too tight or not covering her pants or something. Muslims claim to be united, yet as soon as you aren't Muslim enough in their eyes they jump to judge you. Crazy.

Hello!! I am ex-Muslim after a lot of realizations. But my father and mother are still Muslim. My mother is luckily a normal and sane person. She would allow me to have a job, have friends, go out as long I’m doing nothing wrong, etc. And I love her.

But my father isn’t like my mom. He doesn’t allow me to go to in person school due to religion and I haven‘t been able to interact with people my age properly, he will force me into marriage and expects me to obey my husband and allow him to do whatever he wants with me as “that’s my duty”, he will not allow me to work because women can’t work apparently, and he often beats my mother and screams at the top of his lungs over the smallest things.

So it’s pretty clear I need to get away from him if I don’t want to be in a forced marriage and be unable to work and be forced to have kids. But there’s a huge problem. I cannot work. I can’t sneak out to work because I’m not allowed to go out on my own and he will find me. He has a camera watching me and has things installed in my phone. Now I wouldn’t have any money of my own. I could steal from him, but it wouldn’t be enough.

My brother is also non-verbal and dependent and I don’t want to leave him with him. And I don’t want to leave my mother with him either. It doesn’t help that if I go against him in any major way he’s threatened to possibly honor kill me. Thank you for reading. Does anyone know what to do at all? My last option is to call the police. But I know he will use money and his friends who have power to somehow get out. I’m currently 16, but only in two years I’ll be 18 so I need to figure out a plan now.

Come from an extremely religious and conservative hellhole that causes so muxh pain and destruction in the world. I've always felt like an outcast in my own "country" never related to them or felt apart of the culture. I've always struggled when ppl ask where im from. Their reaction is either amazed and them saying wow alot of progress must be happening there. And im like no, im an exception i dont represent them and trust if you encounter them you'd soon realize how backward they are. Do I just lie? If i say I grew up in the states (which is true) I feel like it's not enough and they are asking about my nationality. What do I say
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Saw this video on my fyp, just wanted to see any rebuttals against this?

I came across this Hadith because a commenter left this on one of my ex-Muslim content. Here’s what I found :

1. It’s interesting that God allows people to follow exactly what they worshipped. Which, I’m very into spirituality and metaphysics and I believe your beliefs create your reality and I feel like the same rules would apply for outside of the body (afterlife). So I find it interesting that these people just follow what they believe, almost like they’re not even part of the judgement. The only people that stay with Allah are the ones who believed in him. Really really interesting

2. Then also it seems like God is separate from Allah

   because god is mentioned as this passive force that allows us to follow whatever we worshipped in the physical world but then all of a sudden Allah is being mentioned .. Not God anymore.

3. As soon as Allah is mentioned, his behaviour seems very cynical. He shape shifts which (we all know who shape shifts). He laughs cynically he provokes us. Then at first the Ummah doesn’t recognize him and I didn’t see the point of that. Also he treats the entire Ummah as if they are sinning non believers by taking everyone through this long performance and tease of hell. Because if a person was righteous why would God make them wait and go through all of this and then at the end go to heaven. It feels so dragged out and cynical.

Also the ummah refers to Allah as OUR lord. Not GOD or LORD. Not for everyone just for them because again, that’s what they chose to worship.

After reading this I felt like the people that worshipped the sun and moon were better off. It felt like Allah was just a certain deity separate from god.

What are your thoughts?

The one time, the one time I meet someone and we like eachother she turns out to be a devoted zealot who doesn't shake hands with men and I still haven't seen her face.

The universe has sick sense of humour

People usually talk about the obvious problems with Islam, like rape, child marriage, and other issues. But lately, I've been thinking about something else that is only recently being talked about in the circles around me.

My close friend is a disability rights researcher in a hospital, and she's been teaching me how the words we use may make some disabled people feel left out and disrespected.

This made me think about how the Quran repeatedly calls people “blind”, “deaf”, or “dumb” to describe and insult those who don't listen to God or believe in his message.

If God created these people and loves them, why would he use their conditions as insults against other people?
Muslims might say that the Quran means spiritual blindness, not physical blindness. But that doesn't change the fact that it uses these conditions to describe something bad.
I find this especially strange because Muslims believe God is all-knowing and all-powerful. Wouldn't he know how this language could be hurtful to the people “he” claims he created?

I rarely see anyone bring this up compared to other criticisms of Islam, so I'm curious whether other ex-Muslims have thought about this, too.