Just registered today from London!
OP - June 21, 2016, 07:41 PM
Hey there!
Name is Has (for short lol). Male, mid-20s. How are you guys?
To be honest I wasn't even very sure there were any ex-Muslim forums I'm glad there is at least one space for likeminded people.
So how long have I been atheist? I would say theologically about a year, and longer than that practically.
I stopped observing Ramadan two years ago and my parents know. Thankfully they're not that strict and I've questioned religion in front of them as well as my older siblings. I'm the youngest, so I can empathise that it may be hard for them.
But they didn't do a bad job at raising their family at all. They raised a good person in me and I can still be good with or without religion I believe. If you need religious morals to guide your behaviour, you're potentially dangerous I believe.
I like to think we're not a group of huddled, angry people. I guess I'm about to find that out lol; though I could understand your bitterness. Chances are if you're desi like me you come from immigrant families and they don't know any better. Questioning faith is not a thing back there, especially if you're not educated and got married early.
I can understand people's decisions not to come out. It's dangerous and your main support network will potentially dissipate. Oh well it is what it is and we'll live life our way regardless.
Hobbies? I like to watch foreign cinema a lot. I play guitar and many other unislamic activiites lol. I actually took up drinking recently as I rejected it in my teens as I didn't like it. But as long as you're with people you enjoy being with and it's a social thing it's fine I feel. Never drunk alone however and don't intend to, don't smoke either. Literature from authors like Arundhati Roy, Khalid Hosseini and the late Frantz Fanon & Anarcho-Syndicalist Jean-Paul Sartre.
I like watching TV series also! I would highly recommend only the first season of True Detective, Matthew McConaughey's dialectical discourses with Woody Harrelson are amazing and thought-provoking.
There are some lessons from Islam I guess I'll never unlearn and they're not all so bad. I also like to think just because we've left our religion, that it does not make us brown-nosers or anglophiles. I'm proud of who I am and not ashamed of my family at all.
Anyway! I hope that serves enough as an introduction feel free to say hi and get the ball rolling! I also have kik if anyone is interested in talking on a more personal note.
Topic: Just registered today from London!