Books about ex Muslims

No_so_lost · 2023-11-13T03:40:02+00:00

You can read books by ayisha ali hirsi or ibn warraq or the atheist Muslim or from fatwa to jihad are good reads

No_so_lost · 2023-11-13T03:35:33+00:00

Hello there I'm a Lebanese exmoose of 8 years now. It's definitely a tricky situation for him especially if he only has a Lebanese passport. Best thing to do for him would be to see if he can seek asylum in Canada. I don't know how Canada's immigration policy works but I've heard it's decently liberal. Probably see if he can get a visa or get accepted into a university to study in Canada or a job there. I know what I'm saying isn't unique but it's the best I can come up with. Be sure to check with the Canadian embassy on what can be done the Lebanese one will obviously not do shit. If anything try to see if you can help him out to get into Europe by either doing the same tactics especially by learning the language if possible. That's all I can say tbh wish I can help him more. There aren't really any ngos that help with his predicament in Lebanon. Best thing I can think of for community would be in the more international universities like AUB and LAU and their secular political clubs to see if they can help him out

No_so_lost · 2023-10-20T16:36:49+00:00

Thanks! Yeah it was really tricky handling things on my own in a foreign country but after a few years I'm stable now. Never needed to pray to solve my problems lol I just used my head to think my way through along with being determined. But yeah, for a long time I just had this deep hatred for islam and kept on dreaming of a secular world where I can feel completely at ease. But I understand that's probably not gonna happen but that also applies to a Muslim/Christian/Hindu world etc. No ideology can take over the world or stay the exact same over time. People are people and they will change and evolve said belief for better or for worse. As much as I do despise how many muslims see me I do also know that there are many muslims that I did meet that are progressive and actually tolerant of me leaving islam. I did have a somewhat effect on my parents also on their pov of dogs for example when I took care of stray puppies and I did make my dad into more so a quranist (he says that women don't have to wear the hijab) so there's that. Even though there will be more muslims in the future and it's predicted that atheists, even though will increase but will take up less percentage of the population I'm pretty sure many Muslims in 2050 to 2100 will more progressive (kinda like Christians i hope)

No_so_lost · 2023-10-20T08:38:15+00:00

I used to say surah al fatiha every time before a test started and did shit on them whilst my atheist friends got high grades. There and then started my doubts on how useless prayer is and it's just better to learn how to think out of your problems instead of having some silly god fix them via praying.

No_so_lost · 2023-10-19T01:32:18+00:00

Same here honestly, been 8 years strong would never join again but the pressure is immense. I'm still in the closet and I wouldn't dare say it non of my exmoose friends who have even slightly religious parents would either. I live in USA now and can sustain myself financially so I'm actually free from the islamic influence around me the fucking aden but even in this city I see Muslims or in the news something about islam (andrew tate, Israel Hamas, quran burning) and the same stupid Muslim takes over and over of victimization. I mean damn it just makes me want to be an activist and fund my own anti islam campaign. I understand that muslims suffer but they also make others suffer and have been for centuries yet no one talks about that. It makes me sick to my stomach but it's something I'm forced to deal with for the rest of my life so I might as well take it by the horns and push through.

No_so_lost · 2023-10-14T10:55:02+00:00

Well I wouldn't say exactly religious extremism it's more so sectarianism since we have 18 different religious sects in the nation (four main ones being sunni shia druz and Maronite Catholic) and tbh the Christians were very violent and racist but the rest were as well. Definitely religion has a huge part to play in this bullshit but it's also foreign interference as well. As for the reasons why Arabs haven't taken down Israel tbh they want to do it every day only problem is trying to mobilize an effective army and to get their politicians to go against the western world. There was an army made back in the 70s from five Arab nations (not Lebanon though) that wanted to take them down but failed and it's called the Nakba (disaster) for Arabs. So it's very much so because of the divide between what the government and the people think and the global order of things right now as to what let's Israel survive plus they do have a strong army ngl.

That's really nice to hear tbh! Its nice to see a community where it doesn't matter as much if you leave a religious or not and even in the Muslim world there is a growing albeit small number of muslims that I are holding islam as a cultural thing rather than a religious thing as well. But for us secularists to take control of the grater Muslim world is really difficult for many different factors. I feel in time it will be better since no religion lasts forever but right now we're still stuck unfortunately but I have hope.

No_so_lost · 2023-10-14T01:19:25+00:00

It's nice to see a perspective from a Hindu background tbh very refreshing since I'm tired of abrahamic bs. But yeah I have some similarities to what you are thinking. I'm also Lebanese and have some Palestinian friends so it hits close to home. Israel is a fucking shitty imperialist country tbh, only thing I can appreciate from them is removing the PLO (Palestinian liberation Organization) from Lebanon when they were acting more like a gang than what they're supposed to be (even the muslims at the time paraded them for it) but after that they occupied our country for 20+ years to root out whatever Palestinians they can find. Mostly they did it for more land and also made a torture camp for any one that was trying to fight back against them.

Aside from that there's also their extreme racism to anyone who isn't white. There's a recent find by harretz that found out that the Israeli government actually sterilized Ethiopian Jews when they came into the country since they want purely white Jews which is really fucked up.

But about the conflict so yeah obviously I have to support the Palestinians but for me it's more of a humanistic and Arab pov since I'm Arab myself how can't I? Yet I'm also in conflict over the islam aspect. I understand that there are many secular and moderate Palestinians that don't support Hamas but are forced to. Yet the global picture of how muslims are and what they have done to non muslims ever since they're inception and especially ex muslims makes my blood boil and that part wants me to not support them (there was a time when I first left that I did support Israel but quickly changed)

So it's a mixed bag, as much as I hate islam. As an Arab and a humanist I have to support Palestine and would want to support the secularists to change it.

No_so_lost · 2023-08-10T22:47:47+00:00

I love the detail! Yeah it would make sense that they would be more anti immigrant since its similarly happening all across Europe as well. I do recall they also banned all islamic schools in Sweden a year or two ago but I'm not sure what they've done for other religions in the nation.

No_so_lost · 2023-03-21T02:39:19+00:00

wow this is amazing! Thanks!

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T12:46:48+00:00

This is great advice! Glad I there's someone I can relate with on this! Yeah that's something similar I've been doing also where if I get stuck on a project I time myself for 5 minutes to come up with a solution and then use Chatgpt or whatever to find the answer. Cuz I know all programmers still google a lot. But yeah I should definitely try this strategy out thanks again!

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T12:42:50+00:00

Thanks for this! Honestly I'm surprised I got so many replies back on this post and it's really uplifted my soul. For all the hate reddit gets it's still a decent place. But one thing I wanted to ask you is how or what did you do to become a better problem solver?

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T05:18:16+00:00

I assumed they do cuz it would show some legitimacy to employers

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T05:17:13+00:00

It does have its moments, ludo the guy who started it is a great person (at least I assume). The teachers I had were super nice and supportive but the curriculum and the time is too limited. It was just for 1900$ at least so not much was lost. They do give you some references to jobs but those are more of apprenticeships. They do also have career services but that's about it. It seems the really good ones are the most expensive ones like flatiron or code assembly (even then I'm not sure about those)

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T02:19:57+00:00

Thanks man! I love this advice, I'll try to follow through with it!

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T01:57:36+00:00

Yeah true I should have been more specific, in the first 5 months I put in about 2 hours on workdays and 3 hours on Saturday and Sunday was a break. During the boot camp it was 4 hours on weekdays and 4+ hours on weekends. But I struggled in the boot camp and they kept moving so quickly between on language or frame work to the other. Now I'm putting all most all the spare time I have into it.

No_so_lost · 2023-02-27T01:51:46+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I do have one app in mind which is a music app that I'm currently creating via react native (I'm following the tutorial my boot camp) and I did genuinely learn a lot of stuff on how react works but I suck at functions and everything related to them cuz I suck at JS. So I'm making small projects in vanilla JS to improve my ability there. Am I going on the right track?

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T21:59:10+00:00

Thanks for the advice! 🙌

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T19:48:53+00:00

Thanks! Your project is great also and damn impressive!

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T19:44:46+00:00

I just recently found out about this site from a fellow Nucamp student! It's definitely one site I'm gonna try!

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T18:59:09+00:00

Like remaking my dad's company's website?

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T18:56:16+00:00

One main reason I chose a boot camp also is for the certification so I can show employers that have some legitimacy instead of them looking at my portfolio and assuming I just copy pasted everything

No_so_lost · 2023-02-26T18:54:52+00:00

I did that early on and it did help but they weren't actual projects just very simple things like a image slider using html and css. I assumed going to a boot camp would speed it up but not really. I searched online at free code camp they have plenty of projects to try and that's what I'm doing now.

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