The silence of the ex-muslims

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The silence of the ex-muslims
OP - September 25, 2011, 07:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptg7DlsLoE&feature=related

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Re: The silence of the ex-muslims
Reply #1 - September 25, 2011, 07:24 PM

Good video.

He's got my haircut, even looks a bit like me except for the primate's long upper lip.
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Reply #2 - September 25, 2011, 09:08 PM

I dunno, I think the video is kinda retarded. I mean, I get the point he's making and I think it's right but he goes about it all wrong. First his exaggeration of how few vocal ex-Muslims there are is slighting those who have spoken up, and secondly his statement of "I don't know how many there are, but I know it's more than one in a million" is stupid. Shoulda just said it's more common and left it at that. Yeah, I know, I'm nitpicking.

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Reply #3 - September 25, 2011, 09:10 PM

If what he says is true - that ex-Muslims don't speak up because of the higher risk of being targeted by psychopaths in Islam than in Christianity - then the problem is easily solved by using a forum which allows anonymity, like this one.
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Reply #4 - September 25, 2011, 09:14 PM

Quote from: Colonel Q-Daffi on September 25, 2011, 09:08 PM
I dunno, I think the video is kinda retarded. I mean, I get the point he's making and I think it's right but he goes about it all wrong. First his exaggeration of how few vocal ex-Muslims there are is slighting those who have spoken up, and secondly his statement of "I don't know how many there are, but I know it's more than one in a million" is stupid. Shoulda just said it's more common and left it at that. Yeah, I know, I'm nitpicking.

Good points, but I liked it precisely because it was so lo-fi and wasn't trying to be authoritative.
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Re: The silence of the ex-muslims
Reply #5 - September 25, 2011, 10:09 PM

Quote from: americangirl on September 25, 2011, 09:10 PM
If what he says is true - that ex-Muslims don't speak up because of the higher risk of being targeted by psychopaths in Islam than in Christianity - then the problem is easily solved by using a forum which allows anonymity, like this one.

Which defeats the whole purpose doesn't it? People in this forum are in the same boat and don't have to convince each other of their apostasy. It's a kind of,pardon my expression,underground group.
Their anonymity leaves a room for reasonable doubt[for outsiders] that they were real Muslims in the first place.
They become like the unknown quantity in algebra,they could be Islam haters,Christian nuts ,etc. etc.

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