I’m retarded.
I’ve known about this blog for a while, and thought I had already mentioned it in my blog.
It’s a fantastic blog from an 18 yo Iraqi Atheist.
This blog has put the Iraqi people, Muslim and this stupid war under a new light.
This is from his third post, “Why am I an atheist”
I actually was very devoted to the Muslim cause, and was from among those who rejoiced over 9/11 as did many Muslims, not something to be proud of, just the truth.
I actually was very devoted to the Muslim cause, and was from among those who rejoiced over 9/11 as did many Muslims, not something to be proud of, just the truth. (…) It was a while until I started to wonder why, why would I rejoice at the sight of thousands of people getting ferociously murdered, why I “believed” it was ok for women to be half or one-fourth a man, why having sex (not adultery) was something that needed to be punished, why the penalties are as austere as lashing fornicating women until dead, or chopping off a thief’s hand, why our Allah who’s supposed to be endlessly merciful, would allow his followers to be that cruel. After that, I became accepting of the possibility that Allah does not exist and that perhaps Satan’s murmurings in my ear-something I often contemned myself for- could actually be my own thoughts, could actually be the results of my long contemplations on what I learned in school about Islam “my beloved religion.
And it’s then when I actually started to allow myself to think and ponder on the beliefs that I was spoon-fed and brain washed with. It’s like getting out of a rotating circle very grueling cause a circle has no angle in it, unlike triangle see triangle has three angle, circle don’t, no beginning no end… quoting the hilarious Asian gay minister in Chuck and Larry.
A must read.
There are actually Iraqi that are less doctrined and brainwashed than many Americans here.