The testimony of a Swedish ex-Muslim (including death threat)

From a Swedish forum, translated by me:

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Hi. I have been a member here at Flashback for a while in the philosophy section, but I haven't told anything about myself. I am a former Muslim, been active for a few years and having lived in Egypt as well as having studied with a sheikh in northern Yemen (Damaj). I was a Salafi and believed very strongly in Islam, spent my days reading books by among others Ibn Taymiyyah etc om order to hit away doubts from seculars. As the years passed I started to realize that something was wrong with Islam, I had to immunize my faith against criticism and made lots of ad-hoc hypotheses to get away the scientific theories that undermines Islam in its foundation. Also, problems within Islamic theology made me understand that the religion could not be true. Luckily I returned to Sweden and lived with my fasmily far away from the other practicing Salafi Muslims. I realized that the Muslims made a number of errors in their philosophical discussions. The Quran which is full of obvious contradictions was said to have abrogated parts, clearer verses "took over" other more unclear parts. Also the essence of God I realized was a contradictory metaphysical claim that didn't have any sort of foundation neither from reason or from empirical data. After I left Islam the mosque in Skärholmen (the Moroccan mosque) contacted a relatively well-known sheikh by the name Ar-Luhaydaan (student of Ibn Baz) who issued a Fatwa that I would be executed if I was in Saudi Arabia. Something I didn't learn about until long after it had happened. I want to share this and I also want to share how unhappy this religion made me feel, in the end of my period as religious I had decided to join Jihad in order to not have to live. I want to thank you who write against Islam on this forum, you do the only moral thing and you contribute to making the future for our children safer and more rational. I wish that there one day will be a world where we all live for this life only and that superstition is a historical phenomena that will never repeat itself. I am only 19 years old and wanted to share this in order to make those who doubt how barbaric Islam is to stop doubt, when the death sentence was declared I was only 18. Sincerely/ and enlightened atheist.

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Some notes by me: - Skärholmen is a suburb of Stockholm. - "Ar-Luhaydaan" was written as "Ar-Ruhaydaan" in the original post, but a later forum post made clear "Ar-Ruhaydaan" was a miss-spelling, and that "Ar-Luhaydaan" is the correct name.

Does this testimony describe a tolerant behavior? I don't think so. Nonetheless I'm convinced that some defense or apology for the behavior will made at this forum, probably at the first page of this thread, or at most within a few pages. Experience suggests to me that there simply aren't any level low enough that some member on this forum will not be willing to sink to.

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