I
am a 28 years old muslim man from a gulf country. I have always had doubts about
my religion. Many things did not make sense, but somehow told myself "hey,
Allah knows best". However, this doubt is very disturbing, and therefore I
went to Haj last year which was the beginning of my religious investigation and
my path to righteousness. I married a Muslim religious girl who is more a
humanist than religious and to me she is my life. During and after hajj, the
more I dug in researching Islam, the more confused and skeptic I got. I faced my
wife with my findings and she did not have a convincing answer, and to tell you
the truth I think she was skeptic herself. Anyway, I wanted to research the
internet, and I never thought I would find opposing views of Islam. And accidentally
entered your site. To make things short, I read almost all your articles, and
then , as they say in Islam, surrendered myself not to Allah but to
freethinking.
Now
came the hardest part, although I did change my set of beliefs, I have to deal
with people whose beliefs are too strong even for logic and reason. Being
outcast by people I love, and watching how this religion is suppressing my
people were big concerns. I cannot stress how painful it is to see many
countries prospering while your people are getting poorer, getting corrupted and
finding themselves a victim of a 'conspiracy theory'. In their search for a
solution, their salvation is somehow Islam which makes them even poorer and more
corrupt; It is a vicious cycle. You have no idea how politicians exploit this
weakness and thrive on it. One example, a Kuwaiti Government is buying 'Islamic'
Politicians votes by recently stating that they are willing to accept Shari'a
punishment law to be implemented in this country. Separation of state and
religion is stated publicly to be a sign of infidel, and people are very careful
to even come close to critiquing Islam. That is why many of my people among them
myself are double faced; if not triple or multi. On the other hand, you have
Mullas giving out fatwas right and left 99% of them is in the in the intention
of constraining freedoms. Therefore, this is haram and that is haram, and so
forth. Of course each of them concludes whatever they want from extracting a
vast amount of hadiths whatever fits his personality and serves his intentions.
One time buying a Ford Mustang was haram. This is justified by so and so , and
therefore we conclude blah blah blah.
Anyway,
your site is very educational and informative. I read about your objectives and
found them similar to my objectives. However, you're objectives can be
accomplished much sooner if your website was in arabic. Please provide me with
your thoughts on this matter
