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OP - November 09, 2014, 02:31 PM

Have any of you changed your legal name(s)? Or want to because you don't want an Islamic name? Kind of like wanting a new identity.

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Reply #1 - November 09, 2014, 02:44 PM

I wouldn't think it necessary unless your name is like Islam, Jihad, Mujahid or any of the "abd" names. Then I get it. Maybe Muhammad, perhaps depends but it wouldn't bother me personally. But just like converts often regret changing their names, I think ex-Muslims would as well eventually.

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Reply #2 - November 09, 2014, 02:48 PM

At one point, I was tempted to change my name to Fishpie Jesus Quetzalcoatl. I was hungry when I came up with this idea, though, so I forgot all about it a good meal later.

More seriously, however, some people have, because the act has meant something to them. Me, I'm content knowing that even 'Muhammad' was once a pre-Islamic name.

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Reply #3 - November 09, 2014, 02:48 PM

My name is such a familiar part of me now I don't want to change it.
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Reply #4 - November 09, 2014, 03:27 PM

I know several Muhammads who are openly ex-Muslims or non-religous Musilms. They sometimes get some heat for that online from Muslims with "Western" names, which I think is hilarious

One example is Muhammad Syed, the director of ExMNA. "Syed", by the way, tells that he is a descendant from his 7th century namesake.

I was never a Christian and I have a name of Greco-Christian origin (Nikolaos) and I am even named after a reformist Danish Lutheran 19th century pastor (more because of what he did for public education and freethinking than what he did for Christianity) and that has never bothered me.

However if one feel uncomfortable with a name - like if it grosses you out to be named "Muhammad", "Aisha" or "Safiyya" for well known reasons - I see no problem in changing (parts of) it. Perhaps just adding the preferred first name.

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Reply #5 - November 09, 2014, 03:54 PM

Everyone is a Sayyid. Does anyone care about it anymore? You get a title, maybe an identifying piece of clothing. There are just too many of them.

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Reply #6 - November 10, 2014, 10:21 AM

I don't want a new identity. I have my own, and my name is part of it. My name is MINE, I won't change it

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Reply #7 - November 10, 2014, 02:28 PM

I used to hate my name, then I grew to love it and now I'm indifferent towards it.
It's a part of who I am - besides, it has a cool meaning behind it. But I guess most muslim names mean something cool.

That being said I don't think I'd give my kids Muslim or Arabic names.
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Reply #8 - November 11, 2014, 04:17 AM

If i were you, i'm probably gonna stick with it. That's you, the whole you. Just embrace your identity and love it. anyway,, it just only my opinion.
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