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Amherst, New York, U.S.A. 2003 Cloth As New in As New jacket 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. In Islam, apostasy is still viewed as an almost unthinkable act, and in orthodox circles it ... is considered a crime punishable by death. Renowned scholar of Islamic Studies Bernard Lewis described the seriousness of leaving the Islamic faith in the following dire terms: "Apostasy was a crime as well as a sin, and the apostate was damned both in this world and the next. His crime was treason-desertion and betrayal of the community to which he belonged, and to which he owed loyalty; his life and property were forfeit. He was a dead limb to be excised." Defying the death penalty applicable to all apostates in Islam, the ex-Muslims who are here represented feel it is their duty to speak up against their former faith, to tell the truth about the fastest growing religion in the world. These former Muslims, from all parts of the Islamic world, recount how they slowly came to realize that the religion into which they were born was no Read more Show Less

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"In the West, those who abandon their religion (apostates) find it to be a difficult, emotional decision that sometimes carries with it social repercussions, such as physical and psychological isolation from family, friends, and colleagues. However, in culturally diverse societies with a mixture of ethnic groups and various philosophies of life, most people look upon such intellectual shifts in allegiance as a matter of personal choice and the right of the individual. In stark contrast, the socially restricted Muslim world still views apostasy as an unthinkable act, and orthodox Muslims consider it a crime punishable by death." Defying the death penalty that all apostates potentially face in the Islamic world, the
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"In the West, those who abandon their religion (apostates) find it to be a difficult, emotional decision that sometimes carries with it social repercussions, such as physical and psychological isolation from family, friends, and colleagues. However, in culturally diverse societies with a mixture of ethnic groups and various philosophies of life, most people look upon such intellectual shifts in allegiance as a matter of personal choice and the right of the individual. In stark contrast, the socially restricted Muslim world still views apostasy as an unthinkable act, and orthodox Muslims consider it a crime punishable by death." Defying the death penalty that all apostates potentially face in the Islamic world, the ex-Muslims represented here feel it is their duty to speak up against their former faith, to tell the truth about the fastest-growing religion in the world.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781591020684
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
  • Publication date: 2/15/2003
  • Pages: 471
  • Product dimensions: 6.18 (w) x 9.48 (h) x 1.38 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 11
Pt. 1 Theory and Practice of Apostasy in Islam
1 Apostasy 15
2 Early History of Apostasy in Islam: Zindiqs, Atheists, Dualists, Mystics, and Freethinkers 39
3 Al-Rawandi and Al-Razi 51
4 Sufism, or Islamic Mysticism and the Rejection of Islam 59
5 Abu 'l-Ala' Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah b. Sulayman al-Ma'arri 63
6 The Poet of Doubt: 'Umar Khayyam: Medieval and Modern Iranian Freethought 73
7 Apostates of Islam I: Converts to Christianity 89
8 Apostates of Islam II: Converts to Hinduism, Humanism, Deism, Atheism, and Agnosticism 101
9 Apostasy, Human Rights, and Islam 109
Pt. 2 Testimonies Submitted to the ISIS Web Site
10 Introduction 115
11 Testimonies from the ISIS Web Site 117
Pt. 3 Testimonies of Born Muslims: Murtadd Fitri
12 Introduction: The Allah That Failed 135
13 Why I Left Islam: My Passage From Faith to Enlightenment 137
14 A Journal of My Escape from the Hell of Islam 159
15 Islamic Terrorism and the Genocide in Bangladesh 181
16 An Iranian Girlhood and Islamic Barbarism 203
17 Leaving Islam and Living Islam 213
18 Thinking for Oneself 225
19 A Rationalist Look at Islam 227
20 Floods, Droughts, Islam, and Other Natural Calamities 239
21 Liberation from Muhammadan Ideology 251
22 A View from the Far East 255
23 An Accidental Critic 261
24 On Being a Woman in Pakistan 277
25 The Lifting of the Veil of Blind Faith 279
26 Autobiography of a Dissident 285
27 Now I Am Guided 293
28 The Wind Blowing through My Hair 301
29 A Philosopher's Rejection of Islam 303
30 My Malaise 315
31 A Nightmare in Tunisia 319
32 An Atheist from Andhra Pradesh 333
Pt. 4 Testimonies of Western Converts: Murtadd Milli
33 From Submitter to Mulhid 339
34 A Spanish Testament: My Experience As a Muslim 353
35 "Forget What Is and Is Not Islam" 361
36 I Married a Muslim 365
37 Dark Comedy 369
App. A Islam on Trial: The Textual Evidence 391
App. B Ex-Muslims of the World Unite! 431
App. C The Council for Secular Humanism 439
App. D A List of Web Sites Critical of Islam 441
App. E Bibliography of Books Critical of Islam 467
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 9, 2003

    What Must Be Known

    In order to rebut the army of apologists who deliberately deflect attention away from central tenets of Islam, one should read this book, which contains the testimonies, touching and amusing and enraged and always convincing, of those who, having been born into Islam or having at one point converted to it, became appalled by aspects of Islamic teachings and practice -- its misogyny, its anti-scientific dogmatism, its violence (as in Bangladesh in 1971) -- and thereby were led to abandon belief. Above all, the inculcated contempt and hostility for Infidels to which many of these witnesses attest, and which are not tangential but central, in Koran and hadith, in Muslim teachings and in practice toward non-Muslims, helped drive many of these former Muslims out of Islam. Given that apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, some of the testimonies are necessarily anonymous; but many are not. Whether written by the wary, or by the brave, they are all memorable. If you are worried about the flood of Muslim apologetics all over the Western world, and the repetition of those apologetics by many Infidels who have never taken the trouble to actually study the teachings, or closely observe the practice,of Islam. both in time and space, this is the book to buy and distribute to children, family, friends, government officials. This book is indispensable (along with the same author's Why I Am Not a Muslim) not only for the many Infidels who have been fed a steady diet of bromides and platitudes. It is essential as well for those who, either born into Islam, or tempted by some aspect of it, need to be made aware that no belief is inevitable or unavoidable, that even Muslims can dare to exercise freedom of individual conscience -- at least in the Infidel lands -- and that life outside Islam is possible. The testimony of these former Muslims, who in many cases offer precise details about their own intellectual trajectory, is of value both to Infidels, and to those Muslims who may feel they are imprisoned within a system that will never allow them to make their own choice, and who cannot imagine any way out for themselves. This book offers examples of other possibilities.

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