Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Islam-watch: Igniting the Flame of Enlightenment

Dr Ali Sina (of FF), one of the mentors to my enlightenment, to my way out of Islam, emphatically claims that Islam will experience its demise once and for all in our lifetime. I hear many people say the same. Today one of our esteemed contributors sent me a New Year greeting, adding:

For some reasons, I feel that time is on our side. We will overcome (this struggle) and thanks for people like you.

Having dedicated myself to this site for over three years now, about two years of it full-time besides working on a book, I have maintained a more guarded optimism, sometimes have wondered if we would at all achieve anything in the end.

I occasionally get emails from readers, who have left Islam quietly, to inform me how they are convincing their friends, family members to leave Islam: some have convinced one or two acquaintances, others even ten or more. However, such testimonies are few and far between. We also have no way of knowing how many Muslims are truly being quietly impacted by our project and how many of them are coming back to tell us about it. However, the numbers are miniscule if considered that our effort is to enlighten some 1.4 billion Muslims of the world.

However, I feel more and more confident that a project like this is changing lives. It's turning the whole philosophywhich some people have lived with for 20, 30, 50 years of their lives—upside down. It's making some people realize that almost everything—that they thought right, proper, decent, noble for their life of 20, 30, 40 yearscould all be not really right. It could even be contrary to what is right, noble.

Having gone through this experience myself, I know well how difficult it is for Muslims to come out of the closet of their life, to think differently from what they grow up learning, being brainwashed with. The uncertainty that I often used to slide back intothat Muslims can at all be convinced out of Islam through a civilized debate, discussion, discourse—has undoubtedly withered away from my mind. Now the uncertainty that remains—and will remain for a while, probably for my whole life—in my mind, is: whether we will create an effective impact; i.e., whether we will enlighten a substantial quantum of Muslim minds to effect a qualitative, visible change in Islamic societies. However, the outcome of this project will not be determined just by how many Muslim minds we enlighten; there will be a cumulative effect of multiple factors, which I will not go into in this post.

However, changing the minds of Muslims is our motto; we will focus on estimating our success primarily on that count. I believe that it is the "ripple-effect" that emanate from Islam-watch, and how successfully, how fast, it propagates will determine the ultimate impact of our mission. We  already have convincing evidence that the "ripple-effect" of Islam-watch is in action: people enlightened here are propagating our message, pushing our mission, forward. It will keep multiplying, keep rippling on.

Here is a story of Mohamed, a devout Arab Muslim, whose introduction to our website was of bitter animosity, hatred of us. He eventually became enlightened by Islam-watch (also FFI), became our supporter, and moved on to set up his own blog in Arabic to enlighten his audience: the "ripple-effect" of Islam-watch keeps flowing on. People like Mohamed will be critical in determining the success of our mission here; they will deserve no less credit.

Below is Mohamed's letter:


 

Hello MA Khan, Abul Kasem et al.,

Hope you are all very fine. I am a long time follower of your website. I am actually an ex-Muslim myself. It is funny how my view towards your website changed from hatred and animosity (when I was a devoted Muslim) to more understanding and admiration (now). Leaving your religion is never an easy choice, especially in the case of Islam. Islam-Watch made the transition a lot less painful, since it is always great to find others who share the same views.

I have started a blog, Fel Mish Mish, that discusses lots of aspects of what is wrong with Islam. Although our missions are the same, my website is focused more on logic and showing contradiction within the religion itself. My blog is now starting to gain more popularity, even though it is quite new, with hundreds of comments and thousands of visitors from all over the world.

I do love your website because of the very calm language and the avoidance of any attempts to provoke others, which is the exactly what I am trying to do too.

In all cases, I would like to keep in touch with you folks. Finding exMuslims is a tough task in this world. Finding calm, logical ones, that are not bitter, is even harder, and it definitely would be my pleasure to know you.

My blog, btw, is at http://www.felmishmish.com. In case you don't know Arabic, Felmishmish means when apricots bloom, and it is an expression we are used to saying to mean "dream on!" or "when pigs fly" something like, I wish I could go to the highest paradise!



We encourage our Arabic readers to visit Mohamed's blog, contribute there, in whatsoever way practicable. The Arab world would undoubtedly be the hardest front of Islam to bring down. Blogs like Mohamed's carry hopes.

MA Khan


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Name: Love and care
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 04:15:15 -0500

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Thank you MA Khan for your honesty, and integrity. I dare not say more for my heart may spill over with gratitude.


Name: Sami Alrabaa
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 04:34:34 -0500

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Thanks, MA. You are doing a great job.


Name: M.A.THANK = MAHAN ATMA KHAN [ GREAT SOUL KHAN ]
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 05:27:48 -0500

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M.A.KHAN....I AM PROUD OF U,AS AN EX-MUSLIM FROM KAFIRISTAN AL-HIND.WHAT DOES M.A.KHAN MEAN ???? M=MAHAM [ GREAT ] A=ATMA [ SOUL ] KHAN [ THE GREAT CONQUERER ].SO OH GREAT SOUL THE GREAT CONQUERER,PLS SAVE WORLD FROM ISLAM,WE ARE WITH U FOREVER.AND INDEBTED TO YOU FOREVER.


Name: MAHAN...NOT MAHAM
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 05:29:08 -0500

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MAHAN [ NOT MAHAM ]...MAHAN ATMA KHAN [ GREAT SOUL CONQUERER ....I LOVE U AS MY BROTHER IN ARMS AGAINST ISLAM.IF I HAVE TO GIVE MY LIFE TO SAVE U I WILL,ITS A PROMISE.


Name: COMING OUT OF ISLAM, giving up life NOT needed ! ......... by Scrutator
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 08:56:49 -0500

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Unlike Islam, "Coming out of Islam" does not require one to give up one's life ! During Mohammed's time and in the 1400 years since then, many, many muslims have given up their lives for the sake of Islam; infact, in the Quran, Allah says believers should 'kill and be killed' for the sake of this misguided faith. But "Coming out of Islam" does not require any one to give up his/her life; ALL IT REQUIRES IS APPLICATION OF REASONING, LOGIC, INTELLIGENT THINKING AND THE GOLDEN RULE .... this is the beauty of "Coming out of Islam" -- not one life lost, not one person hurt. In times to come, ' people would scarce believe that courageous individuals like Ali Sina, M A Khan, Ibn Warraq, Anwar Shaikh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan et al, fearing not death and retribution, spoke and wrote against Islam, which was then at its peak with over 1.2 billion adherents '. ----(apologies to Albert Einstein, whose original saying has been adapted and used here)


Name: Hindu
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 10:52:17 -0500

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Happy New Year MA Khan


Name: Al
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 11:55:58 -0500

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Happy New Year, MA. You're one of the Saints working for Humanity, that I speak about. Bless you!


Name: Sunny
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 12:11:00 -0500

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Happy New Year, Mr. MA Khan. We thank you very much for your great work! May God bless you and your family. You are a true hero.


Name: duh_swami
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 16:30:39 -0500

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Happy New year Mr Khan...While I am relatively new to your site, reading each article and posting on some, I am not new to Islam. I have been looking closely at it for about seven years, have read most of the basic literature, and some not so basic...I am not a muslim nor an apostate, but if I was a muslim I would have apostated a long time ago. I find your site and the articles by knowledgeable authors to be very helpful...Thank you...


Name: at
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 16:58:35 -0500

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ma khan and all others with websites exposing the evil nature of the beast that is islam deserve my thanks... ...I have been a very spiritual person all my life and still am and I rejected islam without knowing that these websites even existed; I learned about these sites after I wrote my article about islam being false according to it's own claims and remember ma khan's email asking me if it's ok to post my article at islam watch.....since then I have given my article a fitting name 'dusk of islam' and moved it to: http://duskofislam.blogspot.com thanks again to ma khan and all others for enlightening people about the evil nature of islam.


Name: Alie Siraj
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 17:39:01 -0500

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Dear MA Khan, Yourself along with Dr. Ali Sina and other Islamic apostates, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan et al., are more than enough to wipe out Islamic menace and cult from the face of earth to make a peaceful living to the future generation. Many are ready to follow you all everyday. This mightiest army is increasing day by day and is more formidable than the Islamic thugs. At least in your generation (if you are in your 40s and 50s) you are going to witness the eradication of Islamic HIV/AIDS. Communism has gone to the dustbin and Islam is waiting to be thrown into it.


Name: To the great ex-Muslims.
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 18:49:43 -0500

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Happy New Year to MA Khan, Ali Sina and all those brave people who have taken their time, made commitment to tell the truth about Islam. You all receive the MAN/WOMAN of the decade award.


Name: Ashraf
Date: Thursday January 01, 2009
Time: 18:52:21 -0500

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Mr. Khan, I am an ex-muslim too, and have been able to influence a reasonable number of other muslims to at least view their religion with a high amount of suspicion. A few of them have gone from "our infallible beloved prophet" to "he was only a man." I suspect some of them have secretly left Islam. Keep the work going - trust me it makes a difference. Islam is like David Koresh winning a lottery. In the case of Islam, Mohammed won a few lotteries (Badr, Trench). Else he would have been the DAvid Koresh of his time.


Name: mm
Date: Friday January 02, 2009
Time: 01:09:54 -0500

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MR MA KHAN you are going to succeed in your aim of ending islam.as per hindu mythology this is kalyug.whole story of kalyug is mentioned bhawisya purana pratisargaparva.mohamad (mahamad)was reincarnation of evil demon tripurasur he got boon from lord shiva to reborn in kalyug as mohamad and to start a terrible demonic and world destructive religion.it is also said in pratisarga parva that in 21century all religions of world will end except hinduism this is golden age of kalyug and it will lye for next 10000 years upto 12000AD after that kalyug will come up with its full power and there will be no religion in the world I am disclosig you gods secret plan for earth For more information please read bhawisya purana .I would like to know your view on this topic please send your response to me as soon as you can


Name: Observer
Date: Friday January 02, 2009
Time: 10:30:40 -0500

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Does anybody know where Akhtar is ? He has gone very quiet ?


Name: re above
Date: Friday January 02, 2009
Time: 11:23:36 -0500

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Yes you are right.I too was wondering.In his last post he said that he had become an intellectual jihadi.Akhtar will be soon back with his pearls of wisdom.I bet he is still very much around.


Name: Bangla apostate
Date: Friday January 02, 2009
Time: 18:50:38 -0500

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Akhtar, whom some of the folks here as identified as Raihan, is a brilliant engineering student and holds a Ph.D. He was on his way to become an enlightened apostate after reading some freethinking forums like FFI, Mukto-mona.com, Vinnomot.com (right now disappeared) etc. He also wrote a few interesting essays in Bengali which could be enlightening to others. Then suddenly he turned a vicious Islamists---don't know why and how? When a Muslim turn an "agnost" and then turn a hardcore Islamist, there is little chances that he/she will reform again. He will come back at opportune time with his intellectual Jihadi wisdom.


Name: Aktar should know about mohammads schizo phrenia and plagarism
Date: Wednesday January 07, 2009
Time: 01:18:16 -0500

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Aktar should know about mohammads schizo phrenia and plagarism of judasim and christianity.This site is not for fight against god.Islam is just a hybrid faith with beliefs from judaism and christianity with mohammad flavour of hate and superstition.Mohammad was nto a prophet at all.Due to schizophrenia hallucinations only felt he was prophet.this was banne to entire humnaity.


Name: Flex
Date: Friday January 09, 2009
Time: 02:37:15 -0500

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To MM, Why would someone give up a non-existent God just to follow another non-existent God ?


Name: Religion
Date: Saturday January 10, 2009
Time: 07:34:39 -0500

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Religion is part and parcel of the human psyche.


Name: Demise of Islam From Iran
Date: Thursday January 22, 2009
Time: 13:17:46 -0500

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As Iranian, Dr. Sina knows how hateful Islam grows in God's state of Iran. The inception of Mullahs's regime is a prelude for Islam's demise.


Name: Demise of Islam
Date: Thursday January 22, 2009
Time: 13:19:45 -0500

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It is a freedom for one and half of milliard Muslims


 
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