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  • Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     OP - December 17, 2010, 03:06 AM
    Should you keep your muslim name after leaving islam, or change it so you're not automatically assumed to be a muslim because of your name (especially by muslims, who might assume you're a muslim and then decide you should be killed when they see you doing haram stuff). What's everyone's thoughts about this?
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #1 - December 17, 2010, 03:12 AM
    I guess if you're attached to your name then you shouldn't keep it. There isn't much of a reason to change it unless you want to change (which i fine too).
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #2 - December 17, 2010, 04:13 AM
    I've lived my entire life with a Muslim first and middle name, and an Arabic last name and yet have never been Muslim-- it's caused plenty of confusion and problems throughout my life and when I was younger I wanted to change it. My mother wouldn't let me and by the time I was an adult, I manned up and stopped being a whiny little wimp running from his own damn name and his own damn background-- it's my fuckin name and if it causes confusion, so what, if it causes problems, so be it, and if other people don't like it, fuck them.
    fuck you
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #3 - December 17, 2010, 04:57 AM
    Unto each his own I suppose. I didn't take a Muslim name upon my conversion.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #4 - December 17, 2010, 07:44 AM
    Quote from: conwaytwitty on December 17, 2010, 04:57 AM
    Unto each his own I suppose. I didn't take a Muslim name upon my conversion.

    How did the brothers react to that?
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #5 - December 17, 2010, 08:01 AM
    Quote from: Q-Man on December 17, 2010, 04:13 AM
    I've lived my entire life with a Muslim first and middle name, and an Arabic last name and yet have never been Muslim-- it's caused plenty of confusion and problems throughout my life and when I was younger I wanted to change it. My mother wouldn't let me and by the time I was an adult, I manned up and stopped being a whiny little wimp running from his own damn name and his own damn background-- it's my fuckin name and if it causes confusion, so what, if it causes problems, so be it, and if other people don't like it, fuck them.

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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #6 - December 17, 2010, 09:01 AM
    Quote from: donatelo on December 17, 2010, 07:44 AM
    How did the brothers react to that?


    It was actually sisters in my case.  I didn't encounter any significant pressure to change my name though. The women seemed to be more concerned with me dressing Islamically and not wearing makeup, nail polish,etc.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #7 - December 17, 2010, 09:09 AM
    And did you comply?
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #8 - December 17, 2010, 09:36 AM
    My mom wanted to change her name when she was in her early twenties.. but then she couldn't do it because she didn't want to brake my grandmas heart.... But i know 3 cases of guys who changed their last names that were Ramadani(2 different cases) and Islami....
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #9 - December 17, 2010, 10:12 AM
    Quote from: donatelo on December 17, 2010, 03:06 AM
    Should you keep your muslim name after leaving islam, or change it so you're not automatically assumed to be a muslim because of your name (especially by muslims, who might assume you're a muslim and then decide you should be killed when they see you doing haram stuff). What's everyone's thoughts about this?


    I'm not changing my name.

    Others can either change their attitude towards it or tough tittie!
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #10 - December 17, 2010, 10:13 AM
    Quote from: Q-Man on December 17, 2010, 04:13 AM
    I've lived my entire life with a Muslim first and middle name, and an Arabic last name and yet have never been Muslim-- it's caused plenty of confusion and problems throughout my life and when I was younger I wanted to change it. My mother wouldn't let me and by the time I was an adult, I manned up and stopped being a whiny little wimp running from his own damn name and his own damn background-- it's my fuckin name and if it causes confusion, so what, if it causes problems, so be it, and if other people don't like it, fuck them.


    ^This
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #11 - December 17, 2010, 10:30 AM

    One thing that always bugged me about Islamic conversion is the insistence that a convert changes his or her name. It more than bugged me, it is disturbing in a way, because it is so loaded with symbolism of the cutting away of an individual from his or her moorings, a symbol that the non Islamic is jahil, even to sever the individual from his or her cultural background and family name (and in so many cases the act of distancing the individual from his or her family and culture is a test and vital act of submitting to Islam)

    Ex Muslims feeling the need to change their name because of assimilative pressures is a slightly different thing. It is sad. After all, your name is the name that your Mum and Dad gave you, and if you feel the need to make a break with the religion by refusing anything Islamic in terms of names, I think you should wait until you have kids, and give them the name you might have wanted for yourself.

    At the same time, in Britain and America, there is a tradition of immigrants (Jews, Italians, Chinese, Indians etc) slowly Anglicising their names. These are symbols of the assimilative impulse, and is different from an immediate change of a name as part of an act of rejection of the religion.


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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #12 - December 17, 2010, 10:49 AM
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    so you're not automatically assumed to be a muslim because of your name (especially by muslims, who might assume you're a muslim and then decide you should be killed when they see you doing haram stuff).

     

    I can see what you mean, but don't you think there is a defiance in doing that? If a Muslim is going to get high blood pressure because you do haram things (according to them) whilst without a care having an islamic name, fuck them. Thats a middle finger right up in their face there.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #13 - December 17, 2010, 11:34 AM
    Quote from: donatelo on December 17, 2010, 03:06 AM
    Should you keep your muslim name after leaving islam, or change it so you're not automatically assumed to be a muslim because of your name (especially by muslims, who might assume you're a muslim and then decide you should be killed when they see you doing haram stuff). What's everyone's thoughts about this?


    I'm too used to my own name to change even tho it kinda hints at Muslim. I don't really care, I like it
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #14 - December 17, 2010, 12:00 PM
    I'm fortunate I didn't change my name when I converted. It's Jessica. I mean I'm no longer Christian either; I guess it's it's a neutral name.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #15 - December 17, 2010, 12:55 PM
    Quote from: pierced_beauty on December 17, 2010, 12:00 PM
    I'm fortunate I didn't change my name when I converted. It's Jessica. I mean I'm no longer Christian either; I guess it's it's a neutral name.

    well dear pierced_beauty, I think you should change your name again , Jessica is too good for you with this figure..


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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #16 - December 17, 2010, 08:08 PM
    I have a typical Muslim name...one of Muhammad's wives.  I could change it, but there would be more confusion if I were to change my name to Jane - as I don't look like your typical Jane....and what Q-man said.
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #17 - December 17, 2010, 08:37 PM
    Quote from: donatelo on December 17, 2010, 09:09 AM
    And did you comply?


    I sure did! Within three months of conversion I was a black abaya clad, no makeup or nail polish wearing and unkempt eyebrows rocking "ideal muslimah". Cheesy
    Quote from: billy on February 13, 2011, 02:13 PM
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #18 - December 17, 2010, 08:40 PM
    Jane would be more of a Christian name.. Try to come up with a unique one.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #19 - December 17, 2010, 08:55 PM
    okay, how about...Teetertotter?   grin12

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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #20 - December 17, 2010, 08:58 PM
    if my name was 'muhammad' or 'islam' then i'd change it for sure. but my name isn't too bad so i'll leave it.
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #21 - December 17, 2010, 09:46 PM
    Quote from: Teetertotter on December 17, 2010, 08:55 PM
    okay, how about...Teetertotter?   grin12

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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #22 - December 17, 2010, 09:51 PM
    Quote from: serrated_colon on December 17, 2010, 08:58 PM
    if my name was 'muhammad' or 'islam' then i'd change it for sure. but my name isn't too bad so i'll leave it.


    Personally I wouldn't - and I would let everyone know that I was an ex-Muslim and that Islam is bullshit.

    I hate the term Ex-Muslim btw - it's like saying I'm an ex-Alcoholic - but it is necessary at the moment to help others and break the taboo on leaving Islam and make Muhammad and Islam regular names as are John and Paul which no-one assumes you MUST be a Christian.

  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #23 - December 17, 2010, 09:56 PM
    My name is not a Muslim/Arabic name, but it does hint at Malay, and Malay means Muslim here, so...  wacko I like my name though.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #24 - December 25, 2010, 03:05 PM
    I have a Muslim first name spelled in the typical Somali manner "Abdillahi" pronounced Ab-dill-lar-he which is not too bad. I have a Somali surname so it's sort of hides my religion. I was thinking about changing my name to Weylan Bishop or Blanchflower but I decided that would be letting the scum win.

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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #25 - December 25, 2010, 03:07 PM
    I would definately consider changing my last name. I'm fine with Irtaza as my first name but the last name would be something like 'de Alno' etc.
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #26 - December 25, 2010, 05:26 PM
    if i could i would but i cant so i wont
    井の中の蛙大海を知らず。
    (I no naka no kawazu taikai wo shirazu)
    A frog in a well does not know the great sea.
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #27 - December 25, 2010, 05:32 PM
    ^ Why can't you?
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  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #28 - December 25, 2010, 05:44 PM
    Quote from: muddy on December 17, 2010, 09:46 PM
    And you will be nicknamed "TT"


    That's a horrible nickname. You, muddy, are banned from choosing nicknames.
  • Re: Changing your name after leaving Islam?
     Reply #29 - December 25, 2010, 05:57 PM
    Quote from: donatelo on December 25, 2010, 05:32 PM
    ^ Why can't you?


    to my family it would be a slap on the face and an insult and although i could care less about what my father would think i cant do that to my mum

    btw i was refering to my last name..i like my first name cuz its not really islamic(okay it is but u can make it unislamic by the spelling)

    but my last name...u defenetly cant make it unislamic and would love to be able to change it...but to what?

    if/when i get married i plan on taking my husbands name:D
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