A pious Muslimah's testimony of leaving Islam...

Who am I?

Im a 48-year-old Malay. Born as a muslim.... became one damn pious one too....never miss my prayers.... read my quran faithfully like a parrot....and every day save 10cents.....in my piggy bank.. with the hope that one day i will make that trip to the holy land......and fulfill my duty as a true muslim.

But something happen along the way to that journey..........before i'm told not to stop.......to just move with the flow and just follow. No question to ask...there should be no doubts.......U listen and you follow....but somehow something happen to make me to stop... and look around. Suddenly I realise those people....those Kafirs as Im being told so many times are no different than me......they are just like me another human being. Why should they be any different?

I am that pious girl....who wanted to be a good muslim so much........until one day, while sitting in the mosque, hears words that trouble her.....and she began to question those words. The more she listen, the more it make her feel so uneasy.........so eventually one faithful day, she took the courage to stand up and walk out of the mosque and never to look back. Ive never go back there anymore.....my journey has been beautiful without all the hatred.... as my model heroine Edith Cavell said before the Nazis shoot her "Humanity.....patriotism is not good enough. One must not have hatred or anger."

This testimony appeared in the Council of ex-Muslims of Britain.