REACTING TO "EX MUSLIM" STORIES
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Summary
In this episode, we are reacting to the growing trend of ex-muslims claiming to be ex-Muslims, and the misconceptions behind it. In this episode we talk about what it means to be an ex-minimalist, and how to deal with it.
Transcript
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Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends
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welcome to this video what we're going to do today we're going to be reacting to
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ex-muslim videos yeah okay I want to do this video for a long time didn't get a
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chance to but today is the day inshallah we don't have nothing personal against
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individuals it's just agenda and the misunderstanding to show you guys that
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and I don't mean in a rude way but you claim you're an ex-muslim but was you
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even Muslim in the first place to say you was an ex-muslim
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since I was 12 years old I would say I just couldn't believe in Islam I think it just reached
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it just reached a point for me where it just did not make sense
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at 12 years old life didn't make sense to me let alone Islam or any other religion
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I don't understand 12 years old Islam didn't make sense to me what did you
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understand about Islam? I met her in speaker's corner yeah and she was walking
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around with proud ex-muslim and I said sister what you're claiming your ex-muslim
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did you even understand Islam? what was Islam about? she said oh I was
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forced into marriage I was like sister forced marriages is forbidden Islam
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how are you leaving Islam on basis of something that is not permissible in Islam?
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what's going around there's this new trend of I'm an ex-muslim everybody's
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ex-muslim ex-muslim and there's one guy I spoke to I'm an ex-muslim I said
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how many raqai is Fajr? he goes five I said assalamu alaikum thank you very much
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I never considered actually leaving because I didn't I didn't know you could actually leave
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how could you leave something that you don't understand I don't understand
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my parents are told that no one ever leaves Islam no one people it's such the fastest
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growing religion in the world or something like that
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for me mainly I went along with it because I just wanted to please my parents I think
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now I can look back on my parents and I see a control freak of a father and a doormat for a mother
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and look how she's speaking about her parents yeah we're not trying to nitpick her
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but look how she's look me personally she's claiming that she got persecuted
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because she left Islam that she didn't understand
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me I came to Islam when I accepted Islam I got kicked out of my house
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I lived at his house yeah okay and at the brothers house for about a month okay
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they looked after me Allah best them yeah but basically the fact that that happened
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did you ever see me in your house throughout my dad I never know in fact
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actually I remember him saying things like you know what this is a time where
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I should increase my love towards my dad exactly make him understand so so
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call your mum a doormat like come on let's be serious
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but when I was younger obviously as children do you just look up to your parents
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and you want to please them in every single way possible
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I guess that was why I just carried on with Islam and just said to everyone that I was still a Muslim
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you didn't believe what you didn't understand it
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you know why is this awkward because there's absolutely no argument
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you know me listen if I if I had left something yeah if I'm against something
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Ali what is something I don't like you're my friend you know me for a few years
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I'm not gonna sit here and say guys I'm not a Christian because
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I just I never understood it when I was 12 you know
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the whole concept of one in three that don't make sense to me
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this argument in Christianity don't make sense to me
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I was thinking how to go on because I have nothing to say
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when they first found out that I've got a boyfriend
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would you compromise your relationship with your dad
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it just seems like you're looking for your parents acceptance
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and it's a very deeply ingrained part of culture
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don't go having sexual intercourse with every Tom Dick and Harry whoever
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of course I'm going to have these inclinations in me
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what's the difference between you and an animal
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they wanted to keep me away from alcohol and drugs and sex
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I was actually born from a non-Muslim background
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because all of your stories were slightly different
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in terms of you guys had sort of subjective problem
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but one thing I didn't hear in the sort of the conversations
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your responses seem to be emotional or subjective
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your desires and your doubts get the best out of you