My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family.
For one thing, I had a very difficult time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture. Islam was forced down the throats of Iranians with the sword of Allah. In my heart, I never considered myself a Muslim. However, I didn’t reveal this until later in life for fear of retribution by radical Muslims.
Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the faith. For an unrepentant male apostate, death is the proscribed punishment and life imprisonment for the female apostate.
“Kill whoever changes his religion.” __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57
Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah’s immutable eternal religion.
I came to the realization that the root cause of my peoples’ degradation and suffering was Islam. It was a creed imposed on an enlightened, tolerant and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next. With each passing day, I rejoice more and more in my good fortune; in my ability to avoid the yoke of Islamic slavery and its blinders that imprisons a billion and half people by walls of superstition, hatred of others, and a celebration of death.
Iranian Muslims are victims of the Islamic virus that has destroyed in them their traditional respect for diversity. It is the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value of diversity that is enshrined in the Cyrus the Great Cylinder, the unconditional respect for the complete rights of all the people of the world (an anathema to the Islamists’ credo) that has held the nation together over the millennia. Although Islam was imposed on Iran some 1,400 years ago, Iranians deeply value their own ancient non-Arab identity and have never fully surrendered to the Arab culture.
The 2009 protests were just as much against the Islamic Republic as they were about Shi’a Islam. In fact, much of it was against Islam itself. People have experienced what a primitive and defective system of belief Islam is and aim to abandon it for good. Many will still hang on to it to some extent for some time. Yet, a great many would simply leave Islam and even actively oppose it.
Things Islamic not only did not resonate with me, they often clashed head on with what I valued and loved. What appealed to me and even enchanted me were more often than not, taboo in Islam or anathema to the creed. I loved life, beauty in all its forms, poetry, ancient Iranian culture and traditions. I loved laughter, celebrations of joy such as birthdays; our yearly festivities of Nowruz, my favorite, lasts for thirteen days. Nowruz, this ancient festival, has been celebrated for thousands of years by my people; it ushers in the spring, welcomes renewal of life, and expresses optimism for the year ahead to bless us with good health, abundant food, family, and friends in the land of a civilized and free people.
I have always believed one cannot possibly be a Persian and hold to the lofty tenets of the ancient Iranian Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and remain a Muslim. In the same fashion, one cannot cherish American values, the Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution and be a true Muslim. They are comprehensively incompatible with Sharia Law.
Currently, a large number of Iranians are completely fed up with Islam and they want to leave this dogma of hate and violence. In fact, many already have, but they simply aren’t able to come forward and announce it, for obvious reasons.
Such duplicity exists within the Iranian culture. Originally, Iranians were forced to accept Islam to save their lives from Arab invaders, but deep within the heart of every single Iranian alive today, exists a burning resentment of the Arab-Islamic invasion of their homeland and culture. It is ironic that many Iranians may actually confess to being Muslims; yet, an overwhelming number of Iranians have never read the Quran or understand its language. The events in history have toughened present day Iranians. They have become great pretenders. But the totality of 1400 years of Islamic barbarity and savagery must end. We no longer need to pretend that we are practicing Muslims; when in fact, we are not.
Realistically speaking, there is perhaps 10-15 percent of the population that continues to support the clerical system in varying degrees. Many in this group are government employees, Mullahs, and hired thugs such as the Basiji. Also, the regime has some backers among the poor, the less educated, and the deeply religious. Yet, the alienation from the regime and Islam spans the entire spectrum of the Iranian society with the intelligentsia and the university students leading the determined opposition to end Islamic rule.
Masses of Iranians are irreparably alienated from a corrupt and oppressive Islamic rule. The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is crumbling. The previously solid edifice, or at least the appurtenance of it, is finally showing many cracks that continue to grow. There are just too many fault lines to list here.
My fellow secularist Iranians and I have indeed done, and continue to do, what we can to help our compatriots in Iran, who are on the front line fighting Islam and the Islamic Regime.
There are still those who foolishly claim that Muhammad was a messenger from God and the Quran is a divinely revealed book. My suggestion is that they use their intellect and read the Quran fully for themselves without the assumption that the book is the literal word of God and that Muhammad was their messenger. Without this assumption as their starting point, they will find better than 90% of the book is about violence, threats of hell, exclusion of people, and the like. What kind of God would dictate things like what you find in the Quran? It took Muhammad 20 years to reveal this hodge-podge book that reads more like expressions of a delusional individual with multiple personality disorder.
I bemoan the plight of my native land and the people who have suffered and continue to suffer under Islam. Without Islam there wouldn’t be any Muslims to hoist the banner of hate and violence against non-Muslims. A few claim that Islam has done some good in the past. Well, that’s debatable. There are those who are equally convinced that Islam has inflicted a great deal of suffering on others from its inception to the present. What we all must agree on is that Islam and its sharia laws, at the very least, do not fit in today’s world.
Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated in time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era, but itself is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other’s throats; sub-sects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam.
I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam with all its derivatives and those who support and promote it. Muslims are patients and Islam is a disease. You want to help the patients to rid themselves of the affliction. You want to eradicate a horrifically communicable disease. Although many prefer to tackle the militant version of Islam “Islamism,” for all intents and purposes, there is no sharp demarcation between, Islamists, Jihadists and Islamism. One and all are progeny of Islam itself. Any differences among the three are of degree and not kind. When one addresses Islamism and jihadism, their source is also addressed.
Regrettably, Islam cannot be reformed. Keep in mind that Islam claims it is the perfect eternal faith for mankind. Splits have occurred and will continue to occur in Islam. Yet, reformation has not happened in nearly 1400 years and is not going to happen. Islam is carved in granite, just the way it is. No change. Allah’s book is sealed.
In the monumental task of dealing with Islam and its variations, every individual, group and government must combine their resources and energies to prevail. We must urge all people to resist Islam’s encroachment and not be deceived by its sanitized version presented in non-Islamic lands. The destiny of civilized life hangs in the balance. Shirking of this responsibility would be an unpardonable act of every enlightened human being and organization that values human liberty and dignity.
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written by kope , November 13, 2011
Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women--islam-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-convert-6258015.html
written by Kafirwala , November 13, 2011
Amil Imani is a real genius. Even though he was born and raised in a muslim family, he discerned the fallacy of Islam at a very young age and disengaged himself from this vile cult.
What about Reed Wilson? He leaves behind his beautiful native faith to embrace this crap.
I am reminded of the good old saying: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!
written by duh_swami , November 13, 2011
Actually, I should ask iiki about that since he is an occupier of Yorkshire, and probably knows a lot about warts and pimples...
written by Reed Wilson. , November 13, 2011
Yes genius, and courageous too. He is not saying that he discerned the fallacy of Islam at a very young age and disengaged himself from this vile cult. He is telling that he was never a muslim. He did not leave Islam. He left something else.
written by Reed Wilson. , November 13, 2011
This should not be success story for a muslim. If one selects right path, it is for his own good.
Allah has not asked us to make muslims. Not even to his apostle. Nor one can do that.
written by duh_swami , November 13, 2011
Maybe not, but you/they can fight/kill people for refusing...
written by freesha , November 13, 2011
written by Reed Wilson. , November 13, 2011
Everybody CAN fight. Who is fighting? Would that be Islam if Muslim fights?
written by duh_swami , November 13, 2011
I guess you live in a cave and have little outside contact...
written by Kafirwala , November 13, 2011
RW, the master obfuscator. You are living in a fools' paradise. I don't think anybody can save you. Amil Imani says Islam is the evil of our times. In fact, it is the cancer on humanity for the last 14 centuries. He talks about the religion he imbibed from his parents which he loathes to the core. It is the same unadulterated evil followed by the pedophile ayatollahs and the wicked and haughty Ahmedinejads of today in Iran and it can't be anything but the treacherous Islam. Not the utopian Islam in your mind. It exists in your head only.
written by aaki , November 14, 2011
You left and guess what the world still keeps turning!
written by duh_swami , November 14, 2011
The same might be said of you, your brilliance...
Didn't your mother tell you that if you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all?...
written by aaki , November 14, 2011
Do your job, stand at the sidelines and cheer for the islamophobes!
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Behead-those-who-convert-Hindus--Togadia/872403/
what does your religion say again??
written by duh_swami , November 14, 2011
What conversation is that? All I read is you crying over spilled milk like an out of control child...Spewing filth like arse, this and arse that...Your mama is calling, she has some cookies and milk for you...
written by Kafirwala , November 14, 2011
written by Archpagan , November 14, 2011
A chained animal develops love for its chain. It can not think of a life without chain. Look ahead how we non-Muslims are doing fine without the evil of Islam.
written by Reed Wilson , November 15, 2011
I think Mr. Amil Imani (or Miss) knows what he/she leaves.
written by Archpagan , November 15, 2011
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
written by Walter Sieruk , November 21, 2011
written by Walter Sieruk , November 21, 2011
written by Reed Wilson. , November 24, 2011
written by Walter Sieruk. "Islam is unreformable."
If you mean perfect its a different thing. Else you suggest changes. What should have been there in Islam to make it palatable. What is objectionable in Islam.
You have quoted King James Version of Ecclesiastes 1:15. which is not clear and needs context perhaps. May be Revised Standard Version is more lucid. We all know that crooked can be straitened. That is what we try.
written by Archpagan , November 25, 2011
written by bundypig , November 25, 2011
written by bundypig , November 25, 2011
written by jdow , November 25, 2011
Present the listener or reader with the pieces of a puzzle, pure facts with citations via hyperlinks they can check. For example when you can present an Islamic description of a prophet and utterly contrasting behavior on the part of Islam's prophet leave it to them to make their own conclusion to the question, "Was Mohammed really a prophet?"
Never attack Islam head on. That inspires defense not critical thinking. Instead gently intrigue the listeners. Plant a seed then digress a little as you expand upon the seed. Plant another seed and let it grow. Present your puzzle in an fashion that will appeal to the listener because you are presenting a story to somebody you feel is worth entertaining. Then leave him hanging with only one rational conclusion; but, do not make the conclusion for the listener. At that point tail off your narrative in a neutral harmless direction. The seeds, if properly planted, will grow. The obvious conclusion you intended will spring into the listener's or reader's mind as if it were their own idea.
Is there any way Islam can withstand this process, especially when it is displaying its inherent evil and barbarity anew to the world? As Islam expands so expand your puzzle story telling. Always keep it your intent to let Islam rot out from inside.
And ALWAYS keep your powder dry. Fighting is inevitable. Your story telling should be designed to rot out the popular support or acquiescence any regime needs to survive. The leaders and radicals will resist and fight to the end. Be ready for it and keep their support structure shaky and ready to crumble.
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written by Roya , December 28, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w4_BfhrIxg8
I appreciate your declaration. You did not leave Islam.