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Imagine being a Muslim atheist in Britain. Though it sounds self-contradictory, there must be thousands of such people living alongside us in every corner of this country, typically in a condition of self-hatred and misery.
Try to empathise with them even a little and you can readily appreciate their plight. Imagine what it’s like to be trapped in a culture of stupidity that will kill you if you try to leave. Imagine being forced to suppress your own rationality and to oppose those you agree with. Imagine suffering the swelling hatred of the native majority and feeling the hot persecution of those who should rightly be your friends. Imagine the prospect of having to sever ties with your family, friends and ethnic origins just to embrace the modern way of life.
I feel immense sympathy for these people. They didn’t ask to be born into a degraded life. It was their own random misfortune.
What can we do to better facilitate their liberation? There is no riskless panacea or faultless manifesto to employ, but we must do something, or we risk abandoning our ideals completely and becoming simple xenophobes.
As far as I can see, there are three core motivations that inspire Muslim atheists resident in the West to remain linked to their faith of birth. Other motivations (and there are many others) are usually children or siblings of these.
1. Distrust of the Islamophobic Community / racial pride.
2. Family ties.
3. Retribution.
Let’s deal with them in order.
If you were a Western Muslim atheist wishing to leave Islam, you might be deterred from doing so by the thought that Islamophobes are vulgar, racist and stupid. Despite your atheism, you might be averse to giving such idiots ‘what they want’. Islam, for good or ill, is watermarked in your ethnic identity and cannot be cleanly excised. In short, you would rather be a proud Turk or Arab, than a shy, quivering uncle tom.
I can fully appreciate this. Though far from the majority, there are obviously racists in the EDL, in SION and in other like-minded organisations; the kind of people who don’t have any religious opinions at all, but merely an active dislike of Turks, Arabs and Pakistanis. What proud Muslim atheist would want to shake those hands? – Would want to go from being a first-rate Pakistani or Turk to being a second-rate Westerner?
The solution to this is to place a heavy emphasis on the corrosive effects Islam has had on the ethnic cultures now dominated by it. Explain to the Pakistani that Pakistan was once peaceful and Buddhist; to the Arab that the Arab world was once an illustrious collection of ancient glories; to the Iranian that Iran was once the Persian Empire, and so on. Remind them that everyone on earth is too good for Islam. It degrades anyone who embraces it and depresses their natural talents.
Secondly, the Muslim atheist is understandably averse to severing ties with his family, who in most cases remain wedded to the Islamic faith.
The solution to this is naturally more difficult. How can we offer a replacement kinship for such people? As daunting as it seems, we can but try. It is often remarked upon that Counter-Jihad has become something of a sub-culture in recent years. Our enemies make much beef of this, claiming it as evidence for our collective delusion. But on the contrary, this pleasant fraternal atmosphere can help greatly to accommodate those who remain addicted to the communal warmth of religion and traditional culture. Try to make use of that.
The last deterrent factor is by far the most important. According to the Hadith (a religious authority in Islam second only to the Qur’an), the penalty for leaving Islam is death. The apostate is to be killed without mercy or regard for secular law.
This can be dealt with via politics. We must lobby and petition the government to ensure apostates are supplied with police protection and given special consideration in housing and work. No apostate, having abandoned Islam, should be left to the mercy (or lack of it) of their community. They should be helped to move elsewhere with restraining orders placed on those relatives who seem likely and willing to fulfil the religious sentence. While this sounds over-the-top and beyond the rightful expectations of national charity, it is in fact the same protection we supply to beaten wives, witnesses to murder and any other citizen proven to be vulnerable to extrajudicial homicide. Why should apostates be treated any differently?
People of my viewpoint are often accused of being racist. Though it is a tedious and unwarranted slur, it is worth combating. The best way to do this is to look past the imposed surface of a Muslim and offer a hand of friendship to the person beneath it.
D, LDN.
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Athena said:
Thank you dear DTMW
Your words meant so much to me and to our little but slowly growing community of Ex-Muslims in the U.K.
We are your best and most motivated allies in this struggle, because we have seen the nature of the threat up-close. We are literally in the frontlines and in the trenches defending Western values which are in fact universal values.
But, because of this vile and stupid Leftist-Islamist alliance, and because of the generally leftist stranglehold on the media and politicians in Western countries, our voices do not get the prominence they deserve and get drowned-out by cries of ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘Uncle Tom’ or even ‘Racism’.
You are right. We should embrace our pre-Islamic cultures and take our pride from them.
As an Indian myself, I am proud of the great scientific and philosophical contributions of my own civilization to humanity. The greatest gift from India, in my opinion would be a deep and thorough understanding of the mind and consciousness, especially in the teachings of the Buddha.
I thank you again for this heartwarming article.
We really do need support from Westerners who which to preserve Western/Universal values.
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Defend the Modern World said:
Thanks. I also think that India is a very impressive place.
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dumbledoresarmy said:
Excellent points. You mentioned the analogy with beaten wives, witnesses to murder, and “any other ciitzen proven to be vulnerable to extrajudicial homicide”. Yes. And re the ‘any other citizen…”…people who leave Islam are not unlike people who leave the Mafia, ‘go straight’, and go to the police to give evidence. A further point: they are also similar to those free-thinking independent-minded Germans who during the 30s fled from Nazi Germany in order to denounce and warn against it, or who defected from Soviet Russia and Mao’s China, or who today flee from North Korea and denounce the regime and the horrors it perpetrates. I think declared apostates from Islam – who are usually trenchant critics of Islam – need to be approached in much the same way as, during the Cold War, we approached defectors from the communist states. Welcomed, protected; listened to; their warnings heeded and amplified; whilst, at the same time, the real possibility of someone’s being a ‘double agent’ not being ruled out of court.
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Defend the Modern World said:
Yes, there is a danger of double agents. Nevertheless, the majority, as you say, should be greeted in a friendly and welcoming manner.
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Athena said:
I’ve posted a link to this article to the Ex-Muslim reditt page
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Defend the Modern World said:
Thanks. I wasn’t aware there was a page for that on Reddit. Very encouraging.
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Athena said:
It’s a very active page!
There are atleast 10 posts everyday with some posts with great & plentiful comments.
I would recommend that you browse through the site now-and-then. It will give you a real insight of what we in the ex-Muslim community are going through and our thought processes.
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Defend the Modern World said:
Good.
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dumbledoresarmy said:
To all who have left Islam: WELCOME. I salute you; you are the bravest of the brave. And whether you are now atheist, or Christian, or Buddhist, or – in some cases – rediscovering the Hindu or Zoroastrian or perhaps even Jewish faith and culture of your long-ago pre-Islamic forebears, I pray for you. For your safety, and for complete liberation from every last psychological and/ or physical wound that Islam inflicted upon your bodies, minds and spirits.
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Defend the Modern World said:
Nicely put.
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Athena said:
Thank you so much Dumbledore.. You words mean so much to us! We need more people like you and DTMW to encourage us.
Visit http://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim and give us your comments and encouragement.
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Defend the Modern World said:
We couldn’t have that sort of event in Britain.
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Athena said:
http://religiousreader.org/apostasy-islam-britain-god-trust/
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