Yes, you think he's lying, we get it, Rashna. Now just give it a rest please.
Well, this is just my opinion, I don't know whether he's lying or not or for what reason-I don't know him personally, only online & I'm no professional counsellor-I do think that the changes in his story are strange. Its obvious when I follow his posts.
He starts off by saying that he faced absolutely no problems except a few acerbic words from his parents who got over it quickly, then as Calm, idolator & I had objected to some stuff he said, his story progressively changed.
I can only guess his life from what he states in his posts & I see no reason why he should begin with expressing his sympathy with ex Muslims who probably had a tougher time & saying how cool his parents were, only for the story to change when we objected & then change again.
Why couldn't he remain silent about his parents & not sympathise with ex Muslims? Why give a different story at all? Then the first stuff he said certainly aren't true at all.
I can only imagine how much more difficult leaving Islam is, for me I just told my parents I didnt believe in their religion or anymore, and I got called some insults like Blashpemor and White (gora), but other then that they got over it fairly quickly
I have told the story of my mom's marriage with my dad many times in this forum, I didn't start off with a very different story which got progressively worse-I said my mom was Bohra Muslim, dad a Zoroastrian, mom's mom was an agnostic Muslimah who supported mom, mom's dad objected & asked my dad to convert to Islam, he refused although he wasn't very religious then & mom maintains good relations with most of her family, that her sister has married a more fanatic Muslim, that my first cousin Adil is something of a fanatic etc.
Yes there is much I dislike about Islam & naturally in these months I have often debated Islam & my views of Islam with others on this forum, yet I never changed my mom's story.
If I started off by saying the first story & even sympathised with other ex Muslimahs here who have less liberal parents than my mom, then as soon as I debated Islam, it progressively got worse where my granddad first caned my mom, attempted to throw her out & threatened to kill my dad etc, I wouldn't blame anyone who objected to my change of story.
At worst, if I was embarrassed by such happenings, I would keep shut about my family & reveal the whole true story, if & when I spoke about it-rather than giving two radically different stories.
I had got into plenty of debates about the injustice of Muslim women not being allowed to marry non Muslim men etc, yet my family's story remained unchanged.
I really don't see any need to begin with a note of sympathy towards ex Muslims who supposedly had it much tougher & then going onto much bigger horrors as soon as some people object to some criticisms as baseless or ill founded...
If at all he was unwilling to reveal much, he could've simply avoided these statements, nobody probed him about his family in his first few posts & then spoken out later if & when he wanted to.
Anyway, these are just my personal opinions, which I am quite free to express-& I would absolutely understand if someone had expressed suspicion about my opinions had I begun with my mum & dad's regular story without being asked & moved onto a scenario where my dad was threatened by my grandpa & forced to convert & get circumcised to marry my mom.
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