Knowing what I know about Islam and how it keeps people within it via violence and threats of violence, I understand how difficult it of some Muslims to leave Islam and it is because of the difficulty in leaving Islam why I feel the need to praise those who do. Of course some ex-Muslims are lucky, they may live in a non-Muslim area in a Western country and hail from a family that takes a critical or ambivalent attitude to Islam, but all too many others are not so lucky. Some have to be very brave to leave Islam and say publicly that they have left Islam. Some ex-Muslims have the misfortune to live in places like Pakistan that are dominated by Islam and where leaving Islam can either get the person charged with a capital ‘blasphemy’ offence by the State or hounded to death by a violent mob.
Because of my knowledge of Islam’s violence and violent culture and how difficult it is for some individuals to get out of Islam, I try to give some praise and support to those who come out as ex-Muslims. This is not only to encourage the individual themselves, but hopefully inspire others to leave this cult.
The latest person to come out and publicly say that they are no longer a Muslim is the British TV personality Saira Khan. Ms Khan, 50, was born in the UK to Pakistani migrant parents and for years hid the fact that she no longer believed in Islam. However, after being targetted by a troll on social media, she decided that she can no longer live in fear of being exposed, with all that goes with it, as an ex-Muslim.
Ms Khan, formerly of the Apprentice reality show and the Loose Women panel programme has recently come out and declared that she is no longer Muslim. A report in an entertainment listings magazine call The List carried her statement that she was no longer a Muslim.
The List said:
Saira wrote in her column for The Sunday Mirror: “People assume that because we have Muslim parents we are practising Muslims, that we have read the Quran, that we fast every Ramadan, that we don’t drink, that we don’t have sex before marriage.
“Saying I’m Muslim and then having a boyfriend behind closed doors, wearing clothes that go against the Muslim dress code, having a cheeky drink and living a non-Muslim life only brings guilt, self-loathing, loneliness and a feeling of being caged.”
Saira revealed she decided to go public with her decision after being targeted by a “troll” on social media.
She said: “This week I received a disgusting message from a troll, which made me think it’s high time I came out of the closet to proclaim that I am not a practising Muslim. It has taken me till the age of 50 to find the courage to say it.
“I’m doing it now for my own wellbeing. I want to be honest and feel free to live my life by my own rules.
Good for Ms Khan for freeing herself from Islam. Islam is in my view a bit like Communism in that it is profoundly collective and with very few routes or paths within it for adherents to be individuals and even then those who take one of these few paths find themselves attacked by those from mainstream Islam. Ms Khan added that she didn’t want to hurt anybody who does believe in Islam by being inadvertently taken for being a representative of any Muslim community which is something that I believe is a fair enough comment. This is because she has now divorced herself from Islam and should no longer be taken as a representative of this ideology.
I’d like to conclude by saying that I wish Ms Khan all the very best with her future freedom. I hope and pray that she serves as an example to others born into Islam and who are asking awkward questions about it and who may ultimately decide to leave.
Be very wary of what anyone, but especially a muslim, says or or how he behaves for the cameras.
Khan says she is not a “practising muslim”. She does not say, as far I can see, that she is not a muslim. Until she is not a muslim (and she doesn’t say that she isn’t) she represents a threat to the progress of humanity, as do all muslims, including your precious Ahmadis.
A certain muslim also indulged in drinking and generally acting in a non-muslim way. Over-simplying, though quite accurately, that particular muslim is now recognised as supporting islamist terrorist organisations.
His name, as I am sure you know, is Anjem Choudary.
And terrorism is just one of the threats that muslims pose.
Many muslims will be glad that Khan has diverted attention away from the basic vile principles inherent within islam. In that respect she is like the muslims, paraded by the BBC after each terrorist incident, to assert that islam is a “Religion of Peace”.
PS Alcohol is banned in islam, as it made for more effective fighters against the people muslims wanted rob and enslave. To overcome their natural fear of dying, they were promised paradise after death. Keeping muslims to this strict commandment, among other things, helps keep them battle ready, Similarly Ramadan and male dress code.
Whilst I understand your reticence to believe any person of a Muslim background, it’s not a view that I share. I’m prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to those who leave Islam because I know how difficult it can be for some of those brought up in Islam to leave Islam. If Islam is to be put back in its box and put back without unnecessary bloodshed, then one way this can happen is by individual Muslims rejecting Islam. I have no problem at all with praising those like Apostate Prophet for example who leave Islam because they find out just how bad it is and also no problem with praising those like Saira Khan who realise that Islam is an enemy of her being able to live her own life and make her own choices.
The story about Ms Khan makes me think a lot about people’s beliefs.
My Grandmother who I respected very much, was a Christian who believed in God and Jesus. One day when i was very young she was showed me a picture of the Last Supper. I told her I didn’t believe in God or Jesus. I could tell she was disappointed, yet she said ” You can believe in what you want yet your life will be a lot easier if you believe in good things.”
That’s what beliefs should be about. Having the freedom to choose.
I salute her bravery but hope that the usual bunch of vicious headbangers or some individual who thinks he speaks for his “god” doesn’t attack, kill or use their favourite weapon, acid. She needs to be extra careful and her employers and the normally useless Plods need to keep an eye on her wellbeing.
Agree there. The nutcases will be aroused by her apostasy and will want to harm her in some way. Let’s hope that plod are better than their normally useless selves.
@FH
I agree with @tamimisledus, she has not left or renounced. The words sound like a well crafted legal & PR non-offensive statement
Alcohol may be banned, but hash is not – assassin
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Over on Spiked, Tim Black has written a review of David Baddiel’s new book Jews Don’t Count. It is, he says a “short sharp attack on ‘progressive’ attitudes towards anti-Semitism” and a “compelling polemic“.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/08/david-baddiel-vs-woke-anti-semitism/
I agree that she was making a statement that went out of its way to not give offence. But reading more into the story from other places it does appear that she has been getting death threats even though she has put out a carefully crafted statement. I’m uneasy about treating those who leave Islam with too much suspicion as I know what it takes to leave Islam and how many nutcases there are out there who would do harm to ex Muslims if they could. As an aside, I’ve known a few people who have converted to Judaism, it’s not a massive number as Judaism is not an evangelistic faith, but the only converts who I have encountered who have felt that they had to look over their shoulders are the few that have converted to Judaism from Islam.