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Imtiaz Shams
8 years
On helping Ex Muslims. Spread far & wide so no one goes through isolation ever again. Life's too short to hate <3
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Countries that stone / execute #gay people: #Brunei Afghanistan Iran Mauritania Sudan Nigeria Yemen Saudi Arabia Somalia Lashings (insanely cruel): Indonesia Qatar ( @AlJazeera ) Malaysia UAE (+forced hormones) Boycott tourism, pressure your gov'ts - protect #LGBT people.
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So @ExmuslimsOrg were the first to get proper billboards showing #ExMuslim 's exist anywhere in the world. Today's a good day. 😭 #awesomewithoutallah
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This is what happens when we teach children that #gay people don't exist. They grow up to become homophobes. Then they protest #NoOutsiders Rinse and repeat. End homophobia. End racism. End fascism. With. Education. End these cycles of violence.
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AMAZING story - this guy on /r/exmuslim came out to his brother, who revealed HE, his WIFE & a THIRD SIBLING (sister) are all Ex-Muslims. The sister is a Hafiza (memorised the whole Qur'an). Shows you the power of coming out & how terrified you are in the closet. #ExMuslim ❤️
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These two tried to kill an #ExMuslim relative in the UK. One of the would be murderers lives were I grew up. "Why are #ExMuslim so loud". This is why @faith2faithless fights for our rights. This is why we need visibility eg. #AwesomeWithoutAllah
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Rafah's got refugee status! Let's remember the next time an Ex-Muslim is pressured illegally to return to Saudi - being sent back means death or worse. This is one case of agencies and countries having the strength to stand up and care ❤️ #SaveRahaf
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Love being told how I'm a colonial suck up by Kurdish Turk who believes Arabic is God's chosen language, follows an Arab Prophet, Arabic holy book, an Arab empire run entirely by Arabs for 150 years. Best - uses "Ali" instead of his actual name "Erdi" to arabicise it. #ExMuslim
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Ex Muslims BEWARE - if your Deen is weak, you might grow a beak. #ExMuslim #ExMuslimsWithBeaks
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We'll shut up when Bangladeshi Ex Muslims aren't murdered. When young'uns aren't made homeless. When the scarf isn't forced on kids as young as 9. You can criticise Bible, Vedas, Humanist texts. If the Qur'an is truly holy, don't be insecure when people criticise it. #ExMuslim
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"We're not homophobic, it's like saying if you don't believe in Islam, you're Islamophobic" No mate, it's like saying "We don't want our kids to be taught that Muslims exist" - which *is* Islamophobic / anti-Muslim hate. #NoOutsiders #homophobia #LGBTQ
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What do these @BBCArabic figures mean for #ExMuslims ? Tunisia has 3,700,000 Ex-Muslims. Libya 1,800,000 Algeria 6,200,000 Lebanon 350,000 Morocco 4,300,000 Egypt 9,900,000 Sudan 4,100,000 Palestine 3,800,000 Jordan 630,000 Iraq 1,900,000 Yemen 3,300,000
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The @HiltonHotels @Starbucks in Houston removed @ExmuslimsOrg volunteers for WEARING T-SHIRTS: "I'm an Ex-Muslim". If someone wore "I'm a Muslim" or "I'm a Christian" they wouldn't dare. I'm sick of the discrimination faced by us. #ExMuslim #ISNA55
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There's a PR campaign to discredit Rahaf, using the hashtag #revealrahaf . Let's fill #RevealRahaf with #SaveRahaf and womens' rights posts to drown out Saudi-funded bots 🤖
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First Ex Muslim to ever speak about Ex Muslims at a Muslim & Islam conference...feeling privileged. #BritishIslam2018 @n_Horizons
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@KTHopkins Absolutely disgusting, to use an attack like this, with deaths of innocents, for a sneery tweet.
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Most Ex-Muslims can't do that. They'd be made homeless, shunned, jailed or killed. I'm incredibly lucky I can use "Ex-Muslim" on my bio. One day, if you fight hard for our rights, no one will needs to use that word - leaving Islam will be easy. That day isn't today. #ExMuslim
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Even if we leave quiet, our jobs get taken, we may lose our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, our children, in 13 countries they believe in cutting our throats, our former faith has 1,000+ year laws saying we should have our throats slit. #ExMuslim #AwesomeWithoutAllah
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I said this once and I’ll say it again, if you don’t like Islam leave ,literally just leave. Why is it of importance for you to create all this nonsense?
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These "yucky" Ex Muslims face range of abuse from being hunted by militias like animals in Iraq, to family members throwing them onto the streets to forcing them to act like religious Muslims. We'll be #ExMuslim till we're safe - interested in helping us? Then fight with us.
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This is what #Parkfield & other primary schools teach about #LGBTQ in the No Outsiders programme - not the propaganda about "sexual" stuff. If we're talking about #MyWhitePrivilege - one of the worst is how bigotry and homophobia gets a free pass if you're not white. Enough.
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Nothing I want more my honour defended by @GSpellchecker 😋💕
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That time I got triggered on #BBCTBQ when people sneered at the idea of vocal #ExMuslims
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Daniel lives in the West, uses its freedom of religion to build a preaching career, then say's "good" when an atheist Ex Muslim living in Egypt has his life on the line. Next time Haqiqatjou bleats about rights - throw this back at the scumbag #ExMuslim
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This kid from Saudi Arabia just left Islam publicly and denounced his government. I don't know if he's safe (I'd hope he wasn't in KSA when he did this) - but he's also getting hate from people for doing so. Let's show this badass some love #ExMuslimTwitter ❤️
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Feel free to add to this list - it won't be comprehensive. And of course, it doesn't cover the kind of institutional and state discrimination in the form of jailing LGBTQ people (like ex British colonies have done under Section 377).
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guys I'm dying #AwesomeWithoutAllah - via an in closeted #ExMuslim in @ExmuslimsOrg 😂
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Muslim Home Secretary is trending but, #SajidJavid “My own family’s heritage is Muslim. Myself and my four brothers were brought up to believe in God, but I do not practise any religion." Whatever the politics - gutsy to see people able to speak openly about not being religious
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Guy who runs Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland thinks female genital mutilation should be allowed bc it's an "inherited practice". We've done away with inherited practices like slavery, wife beating, so maybe y'all should move along with the times?
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To be clear - homophobia not limited to one faith or nation - global. But laws for LGBT especially evil in these countries - let us sanction, pressure & boycott till they hurt & change. PS - I believe in human rights: of speech, religion, atheism, to love & live as you want.
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Gotta be honest, while I've always celebrated both Eids even as an Ex Muslim, this Eid (ul Adha) always made me uncomfortable. Ritual sacrifice just seems so 450BC, and we gotta have a conversation about slitting throats without pre-stunning living, breathing animals.
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"Should we fine parents withdrawing kids for educating their kids on gay people?" - YES Withdrawing because parents are anti-Muslim? - YES Withdrawing because parents are racist? - YES Withdrawing because parents are sexist? - YES
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Here's a secret about Ex Muslims: we're just people. We have far-left, centrist, far-right politics, great & shitty ideas, loving & hateful. We have unique insights, but we're also just human. This is a message to all those 1) using for their politics OR 2) cussing us all out.
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I care about Islam quite a lot, actually. Its (literalist) interpretation is why people like me have machetes put into their heads in some countries. It's why many think "will my families disown me". And don't get me started on what gay people, and women, face. #ExMuslim
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More #ExMuslims are murdered by family, militias, the state than write books, every year. The day there are more Ex-Muslims writing books than there are abuse & deaths - is the day people stop "Ex-Muslim". It's a horrible term. Help us stop using it by fighting for our rights.
@AliCologne @aliamjadrizvi @TwitterSupport @SecularJihadist @ArminNavabi @AtheistRepublic @MaryamNamazie @ExmuslimsOrg Why does every ex-muslim needs to write a book, hate islam and preach and encourage other people to do it to, youre ex muslim oke just go on with youte live and leave us alone
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#WhenIWasAMuslim I believed Nuh (Noah) literally got 2 of every single animal onto one boat while God killed everyone else. Oh, and Adam and Hawaa (Eve) created all people - meaning a lotta creationist incest. 🧐
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#WhenIWasAMuslim I tried my hardest to justify how Islam treated women as second class citizens. And while my sisters have fallen victim to this mentality - my daughters won't. Join in with your stories and comments on the #WhenIWasAMuslim tag!
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At a protest against the Iranian regime in Canada @ArminNavabi got viciously attacked and his camera destroyed. Armin is an Iranian atheist who can't return to Iran if he wanted to. This is why free speech is mandatory to protect the rights of the worst off.
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Armin Navabi
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#Islam has only brought us misery.” - #IranProtests in Vancouver, Canada! The guy at the end didn’t like me filming, so he attacked me. I reported him to the police for physical assault.
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#ExMuslim is a term we hate - but will use till it's easy to leave without repercussion. Many are atheists, but are also agnostic, humanist, or even deist. Exactly like #exmormons , #EXJW , #exchristians . (assuming you're interested in why, rather than asking rhetorically)
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What exactly are ex-muslims, if they don't even identify as atheists? This term "exmuslim", its so tragic lmao, all that you can make people identify you with is something that you aren't anymore.
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Might have to do with the whole "traditional Islamic theology believes we should be murdered by a caliphate if we leave" - thing. But I agree with you - are you willing to fight for our rights so it's easy to leave Islam = so no one will put " #ExMuslim " in their bio? @h_ajraa
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Iranian women protest forced Hijab after Islamic revolution. Call them Islamophobes, dare yah. #MasculinitySoFragile http://t.co/dvXUboDCZ2
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Loving the "Ex-Muslims be like" hateful tweets. Do our job for us, show people we exist. Once they realise we exist, it'll take three seconds to realise no, we don't leave because we couldn't have Haribos 😂😂 #AwesomeWithoutAllah
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Taqqiya is an almost totally irrelevant concept for duress conditions that barely exists in Sunni jurisprudence. Most Muslims and Exmuslims, Sunni or Shi'ite, have never heard of it. The only people pushing it have been thr vehemently anti-Muslim or far right.
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Then work with us to manke it easy to leave Islam - then no one will use "Ex Muslim". It's easy to cuss us when today we get kicked out of homes, emotionally abused & in some countries, murdered. Are you brave enough, as a Muslim, to fight for our rights? #ExMuslim
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As an Ex-Muslim & fellow Humanist who spends much of my time in Buffalo & upstate NY, this is disturbing. Wishing @SalmanRushdie the human rights advocate and our @Humanists_UK patron a fast recovery. Ideas =/= people's lives, it's 2022.
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This is the first photo I've ever seen of an Ex-Muslim meetup in India. YASSS 🎇🎇🎆 #hyderabad #india #exmuslim
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Sorry to hear Xtian Ex Muslim @NAQureshi passing of cancer. We may have disagreed on theology but shared passion for ideas. RIP brother 😟
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At pizza place in #SanFrancisco with 9 #ExMuslims - talking stereotypes. Top one is family - some Muslims think "you left because you hate family". Total anger on the table - "it's so hard to be out BECAUSE we don't want to lose them". #AwesomeWithoutAllah
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Yesterday I was at an anti-FGM symposium hosted by the Anti-FGM Network. On the same day, one of the first cases #FGM was being taken to court. Today, anti-FGM campaigners won in court for the first time. 💃🏽🕺🏽
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Famous people who were born into and left Islam: 1. Kumail Nanjiani 2. Aziz Ansari 3. Zayn Malik People join Islam, and a ton of people leave. But one leads to cancelling, shunning and death threats. @kumailn @AzizAnsari @zaynmalik #exmuslim #Zayn #Muslim
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Watch an insanely brave Saudi atheist refugee, and myself on @BBCOne documentary today at 1pm @VictoriaLIVE talking about Saudi Arabia, apostasy and forced marriage. #SaudiArabia #exmuslim @Humanists_UK @faith2faithless @AtheistRepublic @IHEU
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'Opening the door without asking permission is a blessing. Wearing what I want. I want people to know that simple things they take for granted - other women in Saudi dream of' An amazing woman who fled Saudi Arabia for the UK spoke to me for @VictoriaLIVE
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It's the cutest #ExMuslim story: THREAD HERE:
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I'll keep caring about religion, as long as leaving some can mean torn families, homelessness, mental health trauma, even death. One day, we'll stop using it. You can help us by listening rather than telling people who suffer, to shut the fuck up. #ExMuslim
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5 years ago: *silence* Some muslims now: omg "Ex Muslims" why're you so obsessed with Islam 5 more years: Ex Muslims are a Dajjal-level threat we need to tackle, bruzzas & sistas 10 more years: Yeah I have friends who left Islam...sad how hard it was. #SaturdayMotivation
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*Proudly stating* - people have been tortured in countries that you'd have no problem expressing beliefs. Truth is, #ExMuslims are SO shit scared of "coming out" the only spaces we can use are online. Leave Islam "publicly" & you'll understand why representation is important.
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@monaeltahawy seriously Mona? You're erasing whole groups of dissidents, most in the closet, b/c of who you see on twitter? Im a fan but wtf
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Open letter to Muslims: why stereotypes about #ExMuslims led to Malaysian Minister hunting us down for...taking a photo @AtheistRepublic
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We've been working on this for months and months - our FIRST peer support groups. Come in and talk to apostates, share experiences, laugh, cry, etc. I'll be there - would love to meet other apostates, especially new ones. ❤️❤️ #Apostasy #ExMuslim #ExJW #ExChristian #ExJew
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Faith to Faithless
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We are looking to start our facilitated Peer Support sessions for #apostates this month. For those who have left #religion and are struggling, these fortnightly private meetings will be free and held in London from 6.30pm - 8.30pm. To register, email info @faithtofaithless .com. RT
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My 2019 wish is a world where leaving faith comes with less discrimination, abuse and hate. The world has enough bad that a little bit of hope goes a long way. 💕 (this, and a large box of lychees) #HappyNewYear2019 #HappyNewYears2019 #ExMuslim #EXJW #exchristian #exjew
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3 years ago, this @vicenews documentary featured me & the kickass @lovhum - at the time stuck in Turkey & now an accomplished writer & speaker. Things have changed - people now know #ExMuslims exist. Today, our documentary hit 1m views on Youtube! ❤️
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I was in #NewZealand only months ago, meeting locals who felt part of their society and disconnected from some of the worst going-ons in the rest of the world. This absolute tragedy shows how insidious & global violent extremism is. Thoughts are with families. #Christchurch
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#Paleontology nerds unite
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Then fight with us so 1. ExMuslims don't get brains mashed on streets in Muslim countries 2. ExMuslim hatred in Islamic jurisprudence is fought by Muslims 3. ExMuslims can debate Islam without repercussions. If you can't do that, you're the reason we put "ExMuslim" on our bio.
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I don’t even get why they have #ExMuslim in their bios, you left a religion and you’re still defining yourself with it lmao get over it
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I'd recommend you try to fake leaving Islam for a week. Just 1 week. Try it, see what you go through. See how people react to you. See the threats you get. I think after that - it'll become extremely easy to understand why we have to speak out.
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What's happening to the Uyghur Muslims in China with "re-education" camps is the most illiberal, high-control, cultish thing to come out of there. If we want to live in a world where human freedoms are protected, that means it has to be applied to all. Signed + share!
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Armin Navabi
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Government of China: Stop the "Re-Education" Torture of Muslims in Xinjiang - Sign the Petition!
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For the first time ever, the world will have an apostasy hotline. If you’ve got a friend, family member, partner, student, etc who’s left religion and is really struggling - there will be a free number to call. Watch this space, follow @faith2faithless & @Humanists_UK .
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Big announcement! Through our service @faith2faithless , we're launching a helpline for people who have left high-control religions/cults. So-called 'apostates' need support. 'I believe this is the 1st ever helpline for people leaving different religious backgrounds.' @imtishams
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Turkish young people are leaving Islam and becoming deists & atheists. This is happening. Are you on the side that puts your "freedom of belief" money where your mouth is? #ExMuslim
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People at @ASU have torn up a poster about the amazing #ExMuslim speakers @SarahTheHaider , Ghada and Stephanie Tessier. Imagine, just imagine, the reaction if this event was hosted about <<insert identity>> and posters were ripped up. If you're in @arizona come show support ❤️
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@fIatlinezayn @minddofaisha If you're Muslim, leave Islam for a week. Only a week. See how you're treated - you'll put it on your bio too (if you were brave enough).
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*Says Ex-Muslims should move on* "bb why r u obsess" *Gets 1.4k likes* *Pins tweet to profile* *rinse and repeat* 🙄😂😂😂
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Germany is doing something very right. Glad we have a similar example in the UK - London Mayor @SadiqKhan - who actively voted for Marriage Equality and marches with @PrideInLondon .
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"You're being Islamophobic by stopping my homophobia" This is what religious privilege in Britain looks like in 2018 - while hurting those facing actual anti-Muslim bigotry. #homophobia #Islamophobia
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It's important we let Shamima Begum - a British citizen - back. Not b/c I especially pity her - but because applying human rights applied equally is important. "What about the people ISIS murdered & raped" - yes, so let's put her through UK courts.
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If we're talking actual bucket lists, sure. ☠ Incredibly irresponsible. Pakistan isn't all violence (and is beautiful), but this is the most priveleged, irresponsible thing I've read this week. #Pakistani #Travel
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Abu Nuwas, the first Ex Muslim troll 😂😂😂 via
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I can recite random large chunks of the Qur'an from memory . In ancient Arabic. Ok with terrible tajweed but you can't have everything. Your move, non-Muslims. #ExMuslim #Iliad
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Today is #AtheistDay , where we celebrate becoming the fastest growing - cough - when we take a moment to think about all those that suffer for not believing in a religion or faith, and celebrate and "come out" about our position. Also, I'd like to confirm I don't eat babies.
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You have pray for Syria, Palestine and Iraq on your bio, yet you would say such a nasty thing about your fellow human. Not only that, there are a lot of Syrian, Palestinian and Iraqi #ExMuslim out there. Many who had to get asylum. We need kindness. #AwesomeWithoutAllah
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This is true and untrue - e.g. Khadija (Muhammad's wife) owned her own business *as a non-Muslim*, she inherited it from her father, grew it within the non-Muslim society, hired Muhammad, then proposed to HIM. All within "Jahilliyah" society. #ExMuslim
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This is exactly what happened to two women who ran from Saudi Arabia in Korea, they reported to me that a random Arab man they didn't know was following them around. They also gave me the name of a cop that was a Korean cop but was working with the Saudis seperately. #SaveRahaf
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Nora Abdulkarim نورة الدعيجي
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#SaveRahaf is time sensitive now & a difference can still be made. She says placed her overnight in airport hotel, to be forced back to Kuwait next day, unsure if taken to Saudi afterwards. They have her passport & she filmed man following her everywhere:
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New #ExMuslim talks about the difficulty of leaving Islam, tearing up. Brave he's willing to do it on camera. It's the same if you left evangelical Christianity, Jehovah's Witness, Mormon - 25 years born in a faith is HARD leaving. You'll be fine broseph, life gets better ❤️
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"Qawwali doesn't have to be about religion, or God, but it must always be about love" Filming a beautiful Qawwali night at St. Johns Church packed full of people. Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, the non-religious. This is real, true, interfaith. #Pakistan #qawwali
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Along with some fellow #ExMuslim @MimzyV @veeduvidz @zarakayk , I'm on this video that the awesome @gm_skeptic has done about the huge amount of biases we face as Ex-Muslims. #AwesomeWithAllah
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GM Skeptic
5 years
There are A LOT of misconceptions (and plenty of lies) about ex-Muslims going around right now. Four ex-Muslim activists and I are here to put a stop to them through respectful dialogue. #AwesomeWithoutAllah 4 Lies Muslims Tell About Ex-Muslims
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
Amazing to see how the Somali #ExMuslim representation is growing. One of the saddest things when I meet a new Somali Ex-Muslim and ask "have you met others", they ask back "there are others???" Like dude y'all have your own discord channel! ❤️💃🏽
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
Exactly! Why y'all obsessed with a faith that (if taken literally) makes people believe you should be killed. And you'll be burnt for what you do in bed. What you wear is controlled (especially women). Oh, & the most important dude ever had 13 wives. Some slaves. Yah. #ExMuslim
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
With all the far-right violence, Brexit chaos, I'm so glad the politicians did the right thing with this. We should never, ever, capitulate to the hateful. To the bigoted. The world has to get smaller for them. #LGBTQ #parkfield
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
This is what many, many #ExMuslim go through - familial abuse, homelessness. Mustafa is 17, and quite possibly on the streets. I don't know if a hashtag will help - but maybe it'll bring much needed attention to this sort of abuse. #SaveMustafaAli
@arabs_exmus
مسلمون سابقاً - Ex-Muslim Arabs
5 years
Hello Twitter, this is a serious matter. We've decided as Mustafa's friends to start #SaveMustafaAli campaign to help bring up his story to the light, so he may not be alone in his ordeal. Mustafa is an underage closeted Ex-Muslim who has been living with abusive parents. (1/17)
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
My fake "Muslim preacher" test has got them reading up A-level books on evolution and embryology beyond rehashing Harun Yahya books from the 90's. Swear down it makes me so happy to see them memorise something they hate out of desperation. #ExMuslim
@AliDawow
Ali dawah
5 years
My fake “ex Muslim” test has got them memorising surah fatih & learning basics of Islam not to fail my test 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♂️. Wallahi it makes me so happy having them to memorise something they hate out of desperation.
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
On #InternationalMensDay2019 let's remember how many of us hurt and/our kill ourselves. Mental health services need to get us help quicker. Bullying men for expressing how they feel or if they're not in a good place is all too common. Let's do better. 🕺💕
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
#WhenIWasAMuslim I believed gay people and women should have same rights as straight men - but helluva lot harder to maintain those liberal views while being a practicing Sunni. There are many other Ex-Muslims and Muslims like me. #apostasy #exmuslim #islam #LGBT
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
Muslim men be like 😂😂😢 #feminism #islam #Muslim #exmuslim
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Imtiaz Shams
4 years
it's midnight and all I can think about is how are Okapis even real
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
@BBCRadio4 Can we please stop discriminating against the non-religious and assuming we're all actually empty inside and deep down want God? It's 2018, guys.
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
I'm going to use #ExMuslimTwitter to describe the amazing Ex-Muslim communities on here. It's its own living, breathing support group, with ExMoose agreeing and disagreeing vehemently on many topics, but always coming together to stop our discrimination. That makes it special.
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
Religious indoctrination can often take away simple joys like music, human interaction, watching Smurfs (lol #ExJW ). No afterlife means no immortality which means experiencing the one life we have. What's your #MyHaramBucketList ?
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
"I was born gay", Science says Yes, @AliDawow doesn't read the study. 😂 They add a ceiling to genetic attribution & link a study by Karolinska Institute showing non-genetic **non-social** factors making 64%. Pre-natal sex hormones is key possibility.
@AliDawow
Ali dawah
5 years
“I was born gay”, Science says No.
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Imtiaz Shams
6 years
Catch me on @bbcasiannetwork this morning 10am speaking about @zaynmalik @vogue article on leaving Islam, and how the backlash illustrates the discrimination people leaving Islam face. #ExMuslim #Muslim #Islam
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Imtiaz Shams
5 years
Really excited to announce that the awesome, awesome @SarahTheHaider will be on prime-time speaking about our rights on #RealTime @HBO . Watch this Friday 10PM - a big line in the sand for #ExMuslims . Hoping this helps our Muslim families better accept those who leave ❤️
@RealTimers
Real Time with Bill Maher
5 years
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