Why I left Islam – Core Issues

These are the main issues I found with Islam.  If you want to understand the real problems I found, start here.

• Prophet Muhammad Explains Stuff (with video)
• Muhammad’s Arbitrary Moral Guidelines (external)
• Quran, Creation Myths of the World and The Big Bang. (with video)
• The Injustice of Hell (external link)
• Quran’s Geocentric Universe
• The Seven Heavens (mirrored on Medium)
• Islam, Biological Evolution, and Adam
• Dhul Qarnayn in the Quran
• Abrogations in the Quran
• Muhammad’s Just In Time Revelations
• Embryology in the Quran (and Sunnah)
• Linguistic Miracle of the Quran (Video)
• Jesus in Islam, The Copy-Pasted Prophet
• Six proofs that Muhammad copied Jesus from Christianity (external)
• Muhammad’s false Prophecies

 Reflections

Dialogues and discussions I had after leaving Islam.  Some thoughts

• Why did the Prophet Muhammad’s companions believe in him? (external link)
• The Quran’s Six Red Flags (external link)
• God has a strange sense of planning. (external link)
• Peekaboo God or “The problem of divine hiddenness” (external link)
• Atheism and Morality (external link)
• How do you explain jinn possessions, strange occurrences, and exorcisms? (external link)
• Why I believe in Islam – A dialogue
• The Eternal Damnation of Hell
• Why don’t you believe?
• Islam tries to explain stuff
• My family’s response to me leaving Islam
• The Watchmaker Argument For God (mirror)
• The Fastest Growing Religion™
• Mathematical miracle in the Quran
• Is it okay to criticize Islam
• The well of Zam-zam
• Did Muhammad Split the Moon and Lack of Evidence (mirror)
• Are you angry at God? (external link)
• “Change your name you aren’t Muslim anymore” (external link)
• Does the Quran contain hate speech?
• Why Do People Convert To Islam?

Rulings/Fiqh

These are not why I left Islam.  They are reflections after leaving Islam.  Keep in mind that even if I was completely wrong about every single one of these, it would not make me come back to Islam.  As a Secular Humanist, I find these to be troubling issues we find and they seem to show that Allah is not the intelligent supreme being that sent us a beautiful wise religion but rather a 7th century invention with barbaric rules and orders that matched that early era but do not belong in today’s world.

• Divorce In Islam (mirror)
• Sex while Menstruating
• Apostasy in Islam and Uthman’s foster brother Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh
• Death Penalty for Adultery
• Women, the Inferior Species in Islam
• Anti-Semitism in the Quran and Sunnah
• Does Islam Allow Sex with Female Captives of War?
• The Antagonism of Salafism and Wahhabism
• Homosexuality
• Why banning interest is bad for Muslims

History

Sometimes history is not what it seems

• Arab women before and after Islam: Opening the door of pre-Islamic Arabian history
• Was Muhammad from Petra or Makkah?
• Creation Myths of the World
• Reliance of Hadith
• Academic Criticisms of Islamic History
• Death of Prophet Muhammad
• The Quran’s Mistaken Claim Against the Jews (mirror)
• Adoption and Zainab
• Arabian Paganism (External link, describes where the god Allah came from)

Medium

You can also see my published posts on Medium

Also see Why are Muslims running away?