I admire ex-muslims a great deal 🫡

I was already considering making a post like this, but in light of some ongoing drama around here involving ex-muslim users (which I'm not going to entertain here), I think it's all the more reason to inject some positivity into the matter.

I tend to agree. When I room mated with two Muslim brothers from Iran years back, the elder brother would tend to correct the younger on issues that came up. Namely when they compared Eastern and Western cultural behaviors as to whether they acceptable or not to them. Neither was particularly religious though, or never prayed facing Mecca. Their cousin who occasionally room mated with us was the same as well. Now their relatives and friends who visited from back home were quite different, definitely religious and took exception on just about everything. Especially the militant ones. Again, the elder brother would correct them. He was an overpowering figure and they wouldn't mess with him.

Yeah, christianity gives u more freedom of choice, but with islam, they make you follow their rules and believes to a tea or u get stoned or killed. So it's a lot scarier to get out of it and leave it behind.

Ditto.