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OP - December 06, 2008, 02:40 AM

Hi,

Just dropping a line to introduce myself on the forum. I already know a few people here , either personally or through other forums ( eg Hassan, Berbs , rational1), and have been meaning to start posting for nearly 2 years!

I , of course, am an apostate who now is extremely agnostic / borderline athiest. However, I am married to a quite religious wife and have a daughter. I havent told my wife directly about my apostasy - although blasphemous comments have come out inadvertently during arguments- as I am very concerned that she would be compelled to leave me and take our daughter if I "came out".

It's great to have a good forum like this to keep in touch with other ex-muslims unlike the bigoted crap over at FF.

Hope to be posting again soon!

Humanoid

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Reply #1 - December 06, 2008, 02:43 AM

Welcome Humanoid!! I'm not an apostate of Islam, but am here because muslims can frustrate me lol, and I found this website by accident and many people here have the same view as me. So were you a convert to Islam or born into it?

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Reply #2 - December 06, 2008, 02:44 AM

Welcome.

I hope you act for the best.

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Reply #3 - December 06, 2008, 02:52 AM

Quote from: Cool Canadian on December 06, 2008, 02:43 AM
Welcome Humanoid!! I'm not an apostate of Islam, but am here because muslims can frustrate me lol, and I found this website by accident and many people here have the same view as me. So were you a convert to Islam or born into it?

I was a "born" muslim living in England. My story is complicated but, in short, parents are originally from from North India and my wife is also from India but she is of "pure" Egyptian ancestory ...whatever that means

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Reply #4 - December 06, 2008, 07:33 AM

Welcome. I wonder, what kind of blaspemous slips?

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Reply #5 - December 06, 2008, 10:10 AM

Quote from: Humanoid on December 06, 2008, 02:40 AM
Hi,

Just dropping a line to introduce myself on the forum. I already know a few people here , either personally or through other forums ( eg Hassan, Berbs , rational1), and have been meaning to start posting for nearly 2 years!

I , of course, am an apostate who now is extremely agnostic / borderline athiest. However, I am married to a quite religious wife and have a daughter. I havent told my wife directly about my apostasy - although blasphemous comments have come out inadvertently during arguments- as I am very concerned that she would be compelled to leave me and take our daughter if I "came out".

It's great to have a good forum like this to keep in touch with other ex-muslims unlike the bigoted crap over at FF.

Hope to be posting again soon!

Humanoid

Great to see you here at last my friend
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Reply #6 - December 06, 2008, 10:36 AM

Welcome, Humanoid.

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Reply #7 - December 06, 2008, 02:02 PM

Quote from: panoptic on December 06, 2008, 02:44 AM
Welcome.

I hope you act for the best.

By which I meant: I hope you do what is best (for yourself and others).

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Reply #8 - December 06, 2008, 03:19 PM

Welcome Humanoid,

what kind of blasphemous things will come out from you?

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Reply #9 - December 06, 2008, 03:41 PM

Welcome Humanoid, good to see you have finally started to make use of your account here.

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Reply #10 - December 06, 2008, 04:22 PM

btw Humanoid, sorry I didn't get back to you after your phone call the other day - I said was going to look up how the word Curse (La'ana) is explained in the various classical Tafseers for you, but they are all over at my brothers house at the moment as I have moved to a new house and haven't yet brought all my bookshelves and books over yet.

I will look it up once I get them back
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Reply #11 - December 06, 2008, 04:35 PM

Hello and welcome fellow Indian.

Quote from: Humanoid on December 06, 2008, 02:52 AM
my wife is also from India but she is of "pure" Egyptian ancestory ...whatever that means

There is no such thing as pure ancestory in India, we are all Mutts.

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Reply #12 - December 06, 2008, 05:30 PM

hi

"bigoted crap over at FF" What's FF?

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Reply #13 - December 06, 2008, 05:44 PM

Quote from: animation_guy on December 06, 2008, 05:30 PM
"bigoted crap over at FF" What's FF?

"faith freedom", another forum/site.

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Reply #14 - December 06, 2008, 06:47 PM

Quote from: Hassan on December 06, 2008, 04:22 PM
btw Humanoid, sorry I didn't get back to you after your phone call the other day - I said was going to look up how the word Curse (La'ana) is explained in the various classical Tafseers for you, but they are all over at my brothers house at the moment as I have moved to a new house and haven't yet brought all my bookshelves and books over yet.

I will look it up once I get them back

no problemo! hope you're well anyway....take it easy Hass.

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Reply #15 - December 06, 2008, 09:00 PM

Hi, Humanoid, I know how you feel. Welcome.

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Reply #16 - December 07, 2008, 06:20 AM

Quote from: awais on December 06, 2008, 07:33 AM
Welcome. I wonder, what kind of blaspemous slips?

Well shouting that she believed in "fairy tales" when she said our problems were due to my not performing salah.
I also ridiculed the notion that Muhammed had "bartered" Allah down from 50 salah to 5 salats a day.

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Reply #17 - December 07, 2008, 06:23 AM

Quote from: sojournerlumus on December 06, 2008, 09:00 PM
Hi, Humanoid, I know how you feel. Welcome.

Are you are an ex-muslim too , or an apostate of another religion?

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Reply #18 - December 07, 2008, 08:25 AM

Quote from: Humanoid on December 07, 2008, 06:20 AM
Quote from: awais on December 06, 2008, 07:33 AM
Welcome. I wonder, what kind of blaspemous slips?

Well shouting that she believed in "fairy tales" when she said our problems were due to my not performing salah.
I also ridiculed the notion that Muhammed had "bartered" Allah down from 50 salah to 5 salats a day.

If you're in the mood for a little exploring, check out the chapter of Genesis in the Bible, specifically chapter 18, verses 22-33. There you will find an suspiciously similar story. Seems God is in the habit of cutting deals with his prophets.

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The cloud climbs up to heaven;
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Reply #19 - December 07, 2008, 09:37 AM

Abe arguing with God about the fate of Sodom and G-Town right? I liked that bit.

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Reply #20 - December 07, 2008, 03:06 PM

Quote from: Humanoid on December 07, 2008, 06:23 AM
Quote from: sojournerlumus on December 06, 2008, 09:00 PM
Hi, Humanoid, I know how you feel. Welcome.

Are you are an ex-muslim too , or an apostate of another religion?

Born into Anglicanism, so I'm kind of lucky really; it's been some time now since Christians killed one another in the UK purely for religious foibles. But as soon as I could think independently I steeled myself for that great parachute jump into the unknown. And, know what, I only fell about 1". That was 47 years ago, before Atheism became a fashionable career move.

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