Support these brave ex-Muslims
Apostates are standing up in Europe:
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam.
The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance.
The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands.
Ehsan Jami, the committee’s founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands. He has been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.
The threats are taken seriously after the murder in 2002 of Pim Fortuyn, an antiimmigration politician, and in 2004 of Theo Van Gogh, an antiIslam film-maker.
Speaking to The Times at a secret location before the committee’s launch today, the Labour Party councillor said that the movement would declare war on radical Islam. Similar organisations campaigning for reform of the religion have sprung up across Europe and representatives from Britain and Germany will join the launch in The Hague today.
“Sharia schools say that they will kill the ones who leave Islam. In the West people get threatened, thrown out of their family, beaten up,” Mr Jami said. “In Islam you are born Muslim. You do not even choose to be Muslim. We want that to change, so that people are free to choose who they want to be and what they want to believe in.”
Mr Jami, 22, who has abandoned his studies as his political career has taken off, denied that the choice of September 11 was deliberately provocative towards the Islamic Establishment. “We chose the date because we want to make a clear statement that we no longer tolerate the intolerence of Islam, the terrorist attacks,” he said.
Blogs, including this one, rallied around Afghan apostate Abdul Rahman, who nearly lost his life for converting to Christianity before escaping to Italy. I’ve also blogged about the persecution of ex-Muslim apostate Lina Joy in Malaysia. And I praised the Committee for Ex-Muslims’ members in Britain in June.
More about Jami at USA Today.
Keep them all in your thoughts and prayers this 9/11 anniversary. And I repeat:
Find a way to show your support. These are the people putting their necks on the line for Western civilization. Literally.
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Huzzah! Its about time something like this was done. Muslim Apostates are commonly disowned by their families. In some circumstances, these families even order the death of one of their own for the “crime” of apostasy. The effect of this is to create a form of barrier to questioning and leaving Islam. Why question something when you could be disowned and killed?
Let us all hope that these ex-Muslims will be crucial in stemming the rise of radical Islam. Muslims tend not to listen to anyone who isn’t Muslim because they say “but you’re not Muslim, what do you know?” Having an ex-Muslim explaining the reason they left the faith could be extremely effective.
p.s. Lina Joy is Malaysian, not Thai.
Welcome to Chritianity! May God bless you and your loved ones with good health and safety always.
I wish them well. Our church has ex-Hindus and they are so much happier. The wife recently came from India, maybe 3 years, and she has grown so much. She has left the primitive behind and now smiles constantly.
The media seems to love covering people escaping from polygamist Mormon communities, why not cover people escaping from polygamist Islamic communities?
May God Bless them and keep them.
THIS is the sort of story that gives me hope. God bless these brave souls.
Their stories need to be heard, repeated, and taken to heart. For they are the ones who will help us defeat radical Islam.
Note Mr. Jami’s age - 22. Many of the radicals are in the younger generation; many older Muslims find it appalling. And the youth of these terrorists means the war is going to be long.
We need to remember the 3 Indonesian Christian teenage girls who not too long ago were beheaded for trusting in Christ. All these people will face persecution that we cannot even begin to understand or experience. I’ll keep bringing it up but this is a spiritual warfare for the hearts and minds of mankind. Who will you/we/they serve? Recalling pictures of the soccer stadium in Afghanistan with throat slitting, women shot in the back of the head, etc. as a public spectacal, it seems clear what their god is like and what he desires for pleasure and allegiance. Unfortunately their god has a foothold here on the altar of aborted babies, truthers who would rather believe a lie than to face the fact that the god they worship is a blood lust evil being. Nothing describes better of what is going on in the gallery of the hearings, pages of the MSM, TV shock jocks, democratic leaders (& followers) than what the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” Why? Because they refuse to believe the truth which would make them accountable to a holy and righteous God.
Amen.
Thank God for those young people who have the courage to speak up for what they find unacceptable in a religion of hatred and death - may they be protected by the God of love and life.