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OP - December 21, 2015, 07:17 AM

29 year old male from Australia and been lurking this forum for around 2 years with the very occasional post. Not an Ex-Muslim but close friends to an observant Sunni who I one day hope will become an Ex-Muslim. I guess I have an armchair, on-again-off-again interest in Islam which intensified with the post 9-11 political environment. Having said this I find the experiences and perspectives of Ex-Muslims very interesting. Also am generally interested in other cultures of the world, and many in the Islamic world certainly have a unique charm and exotic aesthetic to them. In many ways I find Islam itself quite dry: I laboured through a full reading of the Koran, around 75% of which involved lazily scanning the words without absorbing them.

PS regarding my Muslim friend, I have in the past attempted to sow the seeds of doubt ever so subtly in his mind , but truth be told, if apostasy was even a possibility, I think it would do more harm than good considering the inevitable fallout with family and friends. He seems quite a balanced and happy individual for the most part, who am I to judge!
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Reply #1 - December 21, 2015, 07:22 AM

Welcome

It's noble for you to be balanced with your friend. If he ever stoops out of being that balanced Muslim, hopefully you can learn a few things on here that will help him.

"If you don't like your religion's fundamentalists, then maybe there's something wrong with your religion's fundamentals."
"Demanding blind respect but not offering any respect in reciprocation is laughable."
"Let all the people in all the worlds be in peace."
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Reply #2 - December 21, 2015, 07:30 AM

Well he does have some views on women which absolutely shit me but other than that he's quite laid back and agreeable.
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Reply #3 - December 21, 2015, 07:41 AM

Yeah, even the typical liberal Muslim man thinks the Muslim woman has to assume a shitty role in society. There's no way out of that one.

Then he gets exposed to feminism and his brain goes through a mind warp thinking the only choices are either "the Islamic role of women" or "Feminism."

Two extremes that he doesn't have to choose. haha.

"If you don't like your religion's fundamentalists, then maybe there's something wrong with your religion's fundamentals."
"Demanding blind respect but not offering any respect in reciprocation is laughable."
"Let all the people in all the worlds be in peace."
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Reply #4 - December 21, 2015, 07:52 AM

You know here in Sydney we've got an under-culture of Muslim Arab males who'll think nothing of a night out on the snoof-snoof (cocaine) before visiting a brothel (prostitution is legal here), all the while maintaining their sexist views on women despite their outward hypocrisy.
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Reply #5 - December 21, 2015, 08:24 AM

I believe it. I once got into it with a so-called da'ee (caller to Islam) who lives in Australia. The most retarded, misogynist creature on earth. This guy had a split personality. He would preach how Islam was great, and then started cursing me out the next minute

You got that "Sheikh" Feiz over there. A Wahabi retard.

"If you don't like your religion's fundamentalists, then maybe there's something wrong with your religion's fundamentals."
"Demanding blind respect but not offering any respect in reciprocation is laughable."
"Let all the people in all the worlds be in peace."
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Reply #6 - December 21, 2015, 10:13 AM

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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