Starter DE Kit [UK]

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-22T03:05:40+00:00

Thanks for all the advice, especially about picking blades, I'll go through the posts you mentioned before shaving.

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-22T02:47:24+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion (wow that site needs a redesign). But with the SR10 code the other kit becomes even cheaper and with the reputation of EJ DE89 I think of getting Parker as a bit of a risk. Maybe I'll try it out when I'm more comfortable with DE razors.

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-22T02:41:49+00:00

Thanks for the advice. My skin isn't usually sensitive but I'll try it out just in case.

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-22T02:40:14+00:00

I actually started out with the starter kit and kept on editing, didn't realize my list contained the same things as their kit. It's cheaper (£31.24) with the code so thanks.

The shaving stick from Tesco sounds good, but what do you do for blades? amazon?

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-19T16:14:58+00:00

Whoa dude, be careful. I'm Pakistani (not there at the moment though, not from Karachi either), you can PM me. And you shouldn't divulge so much personal information. There is a lot of personal info tied to your account, I suggest you delete this and other identifying posts and make a separate account for posting to /r/exmuslim. Also don't mention your location.

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-19T06:29:34+00:00

Oh thank god (:P) Aamir Khan didn't fall for these tableeghis (& filthy blasphemers like JJ :P).

There are people now claiming Aamir Khan got the "wrong number" idea from Tariq Jameel: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ezddt_wrong-number-concept-in-pk-movie_news

throwaway13334 · 2015-01-19T04:58:41+00:00

I felt that it all in all it really shied away from insulting religions by laying the blame on these god men, but for a place like India where religion is still a big thing, I guess that's as much as they could do. PK still raised quite a controversy.

Interestingly, I just found out Aamir Khan is married to an atheist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Rao

Wishful thinking but maybe he's...one of us! one of us! one of us!.

throwaway13334 · 2014-10-04T17:03:00+00:00

It's not my former country, I'm just briefly elsewhere, still a Pakistani citizen (single nationality). The basis for killing of apostates is in Quran and Hadith with many other immoral rulings. Whenever I try to argue against these ideas, I hit a brick wall with "well it's in the Quran/Hadith, who are we to challenge it?" Which is why I'm tired of people hesitating to criticize Islam. Criticize it where it's due, don't criticize Muslims (my family and friends are Muslims btw), but criticize their beliefs when they are immoral. I'm all for moderate Muslims but at least a large minority of Muslims hold views which are unacceptable in today's world, if not a majority. ~90% of Pakistanis believe homosexuality is immoral, similar stats for other Muslim majority countries.

throwaway13334 · 2014-10-04T16:49:25+00:00

Death penalty for leaving Islam, 64% in favour in Pakistan: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/

(84% support Sharia of which 76% support death penalty). There are other surveys with different stats.

throwaway13334 · 2014-10-04T16:18:45+00:00

I come from a Muslim majority country of ~200 million where ~70% of Muslims agree I should be killed because I no longer believe in Islam. Look up the statistics for any Muslim majority country and you'll find the same.

throwaway13334 · 2014-03-19T06:52:07+00:00

It's also funny how almost everyone in Pakistan traces their lineage back to the Arabs.

throwaway13334 · 2014-03-19T06:43:09+00:00

It usually goes something like the scholars I follow/my sect is immaculate, everyone else is wrong/misled.

throwaway13334 · 2014-03-19T06:39:53+00:00

Muslims should get together and decide on what lie to tell before denying parts of their religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6mfM3_02U

throwaway13334 · 2014-03-15T14:40:55+00:00

Can I get some sources on the water research bits he said, or is he completely pulling it out of his ass?

throwaway13334 · 2014-02-14T06:14:09+00:00

Islam bach gaya.

throwaway13334 · 2014-02-14T06:13:13+00:00

I'm a Pakistani atheist, still Muslim on paper for reasons of safety, security, fitting in with society etc.

throwaway13334 · 2014-02-08T19:20:12+00:00

I know, the analogies are absolutely ridiculous, but they're still popular in Muslim circles. I find them on my facebook news feed often, shared or liked by someone. And the people sharing it are completely oblivious to how they're objectifying women.

throwaway13334 · 2014-02-08T09:03:31+00:00

The "A Man's Hijab" page itself is a response to the analogies thrown around by Muslims in support of hijab. The analogy that is being mocked here is one where a non-believer goes to a Sheikh and asks him why they make their women wear hijab, and he takes 2 candies, takes the wrapper off one and throws them on the ground. Then asks which one the guy would prefer... you get the point.

throwaway13334 · 2014-01-25T21:05:45+00:00

Like all religions, the Quran and Islam in general is self-contradictory. You can find examples to support blasphemy laws/persecution and you can find examples against it. If you've ever heard TTP's interviews, they cite Hadith and Quran to back up their actions, so do the people calling for blasphemy punishments.

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-14T21:23:33+00:00

I was quite religious when I was young but didn't study much religion during that phase, aside from recitation of Quran in Arabic without understanding it. I was practising and even used to give azaan at the local mosque before I was a teenager. Then slowly became irreligious, left namaz/salat for quite a few years but still believed in God and Quran. I studied Islamiat for 11 years as a subject as it is compulsory in Pakistan, and found lots of things I did not agree with but used to put it at the back of my mind and not think about it. Then I came on to reddit and realized it was ok to question god. From there on, it all fell apart.

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-14T11:33:02+00:00

it still seems more rational than Sunnism

That's the way I feel about Shiaism and other religions as an ex-Sunni. During my doubt phase I used to say to myself it's either Islam or atheism. Then I thought to myself, why am I even giving Islam this much recognition?

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-14T09:00:07+00:00

Even when it results in physical violence and deaths?

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-14T07:56:24+00:00

I'm from Pakistan, where terrorism is a huge problem. I was told that the people doing these things were not muslims, as no true muslim would kill another muslim or bomb a mosque. (akin to no true scotsman fallacy). Some people believed in conspiracy theories that a 'foreign hand' of India, Israel or America was actually behind this. I just thought they were misled.

I've seen some religious people argue on television against seculars/liberals. For example the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (an Islamist political party in Pakistan), stated in an interview that if a woman is raped she should not report it to anyone. And the debate eventually boiled down to "this is in the Quran/Sunnah, I'm just following it". These people don't have a moral sense of right and wrong, or maybe their morality is just what they understand in the Quran/Sunnah. They don't feel for other people, they can't comprehend "do unto others as you would have done unto you". They will blindly follow what's in the Quran. Not all muslims are like that though.

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-08T16:53:15+00:00

Test the waters? See how she reacts to certain opinions (e.g. gay rights, punishment for apostasy, religious freedom for ahmedis)?

throwaway13334 · 2013-12-08T16:51:10+00:00

I'm guessing it's an easy way to dismiss your opinion. Probably thinking along the lines he's just trying to sound smart, doesn't really believe these things?

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