#ex islam

[kafkasgirlhood]

⠀﹒⠀⠀⑅ ᐢ . .ᐢ ₎⠀　 .　khairete !　♡ 𓏲　my name is isa　𓈒　

⑅ 17 y/o , desi , bigender ( boygirl ) , queer , neurodivergent, physically disabled , and a system ( though i prefer being referred to as a singular person )

⑅ this blog is for my religious healing and spiritual journey

⑅ please do not dm me unless we've interacted through asks or replies a couple times beforehand ! my asks are always open , whether for questions or you can ask to dm me there and i'll send a dm your way !

⑅ ex muslim & current polytheist, kind of a witch ( i only do spells when i'm feeling extremely strong emotions or absolutely have to, other than that i do dabble in magic here and there but nothing too grandiose and it's not really a big part of my life. i am a practicing polytheist first and a witch second. )

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⑅ soul child of hermes, loki, lucifer, and kronos

⑅ other divine family ties with ares and persephone

⑅ devotee of apollon

⑅ building bonds with hera, erebos, morpheus, and hypnos

⑅ casual worshipper of hestia, kharon, hektor, aphrodite, dionysos, athena, okeanos, and ouranos

⑅ interested in building bonds with sun wukong, eros, hades, zeus, athena, melinoe, psyche, lady nyx, lady rhea, khaos, eris, hekate, lord asmodeus, lord beelzebub, and lady lilith ( a lot i know )

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⑅ 　 ˚　 　 neurodivergent polytheism　　 ♡　 　 ⁺ things i reblog as a guide to make it easier to be pagan as a neurodivergent person! maybe some jokes about it here and there, maybe a semi vent about it, but also reblogs of things like that!

⑅ 　 ˚　 　 hellenic polytheism　　 ♡　 　 ⁺ guides. literally just... guides for helpol. any info on helpol. nine times out of ten reposted. but this tag is basically an information tag.

⑅ 　 ˚　 　 subtle/low cost worship/devotion　　 ♡　 　 ⁺ the tags do not have slashes, these are four separate tags i'm fitting into one just so i don't clog this up but basically what it sounds like! ways to worship/devote while remaining subtle and not having to spend too much money if you can't.

⑅ 　 ˚　 　 ex muslim says　　 ♡　 　 ⁺ everything i post or reblog about being an ex muslim will be found under this tag.

also have some other miscellaneous tags, such as different ones for the gods, one for praise, one for stimboards ... etc !

note: most of my posts right now are of hellenic polytheism , because my practice is constantly evolving and i'm reaching out to other pantheons. so if you found this on a tag that isn't related to hellenic polytheism, i'm still one of you!

⑅ my study / productivity blog ; @kafkasstudyhood

⑅ my poetry / writing blog ; @kafkaspoethood

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ꜝꜝꜝ⠀⠀⠀terfs, nsfw, -14, zionists, endos, bigots dni. i am not against muslims interacting but please be aware that i am still healing from religious trauma caused by islam. interact with caution.

[our-exmoose-experience]

Muslim women (especially hijabi women): breathes

Haram police: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[voxpraxis]

lately i've been... idk if you can really call it "debating" but i've been interacting with some muslims in the comments of an instagram reel in which a young girl was speaking to a young boy (i want to emphasize that they are both children) and telling him that she wasn't allowed to speak to boys until she was married, because her parents and her religion said so. the boy was sad but replied with something like "oh, alright" and the caption & comments were all talking about how "sweet" the situation was. i commented that i didn't think it was sweet, and actually that's a horrible thing to put in a child's mind. the post never directly mentioned islam and neither did i, but everyone who's been replying to me is proselytizing islam, so. anyway, these are the points that have been thrown at me so far:

it's not wrong because both genders are forced apart from each other

in response to me saying it still enforces an extreme divide between genders and encourages them to see each other as opposites rather than equals: the separation is necessary to prevent rape

there is no rape in islam because of the separation between men and women, rape only occurs in western society because men and women are not separated (...because apparently we cannot expect men to not rape women unless they're physically kept away from them at all times)

rape does not happen between family members, it's just not a real thing, ever (incest doesn't exist?)

if you're interested in a girl you should marry her immediately, because dating leads to cheating

men and women cannot be just friends because "islam and science and psychology says so." one guy said it's because "women can't talk about cars and sports"

(i also got called a simp for saying i have female friends. can't make this shit up)

in response to me pointing out that what the girl is saying implies that she won't have any say in who her husband is: arranged marriages are better because they always work out and unlike western marriages, they never end in divorce! (i'll give you one guess why that is.)

similarly, single parent families and suicide are solely western problems

men and women are NOT equal

i need to shut up and respect it because that's their religion

islam cannot be questioned because islam says islam is true

and that's not including all the personal insults and threats i've received, in just a few days.

i will say this is one of the least challenging "debates" i've ever had, in the sense that almost no point brought against me has any logical foundation and is easily refutable. but it's one of the most frustrating because the problem is that they won't hear me at all, because islam teaches its followers to never consider anything else. it teaches them to accept exactly what they are spoon-fed as the ultimate truth. and this is by no means a problem exclusive to islam, but islam does this kind of control better than any other religion i know. people raised into islam are not taught to think in any logical terms - in fact, they're deliberately taught to avoid thinking logically. logical fallacies are the rule. so not only can they barely form a coherent argument in favour of their beliefs, but they have absolutely no clue how illogical they sound sometimes. when i point out a lapse in logic in something they've said, the response i get is "no, that's true because islam says it's true." no other explanation required. at least, i've sometimes heard people of other religions attempt to use logic or science to prove their beliefs, but with the muslims in these comments, those are unnecessary things to be absolutely avoided - it's like they don't even understand why i'd bother to use them. you can't use logic to get through to them because they've been taught to avoid logic and cling to the mantra of islam-is-true-because-islam-says-so.

[apostateoverrubies]

Okay so I was debating with two Muslims about beliefs and all that crap (which I admittedly haven't been replying as of late because I realized exhausting it is for me) but they've come at me about my recent post about certain religious groups claiming to protect children from people who they claim predators while also being the perfect places for actual predators.

And I think I've been thinking more clearly since I stopped debating them because if you believe that children are too pure to learn about the idea of queerness because it's "inappropriate" and, according to one person, they should be of legal driving age first, why are you part of a religion that holds a man who married a child in high regard?

Especially with how traditional marriage expects women to do unpaid labor and start popping out many children as soon as possible, marrying kids is so much worse than teaching them that queer people exist and supporting them if they do turn out to be queer themselves.

Also, I love how I said certain religions in my original post, and yet I am accused of making a general fallacy. Ironically, by someone who is making a general fallacy about the lgbtq community.

[kafkasgirlhood]

mayhaps my time to shine with my sacred knowledge ( the story of lut was never referring to homosexuality being a sin and i will die on this fucking hill even as an ex muslim )

i'll reblog this with more in-depth info and sources later because my phone is about to die but just you wait

anyway here’s your reminder that lgbt muslims exist and islamophobia shouldnt be tolerated within lgbt communities!

shout out to lgbt muslims living in places where our identities are still criminalised. 

[radfemsiren]

Islam is the blueprint misogynist, all encompassing attack to destroy a woman’s soul:

Dehumanizing her, degrading her, blaming her, silencing her, isolating her… until nothing is left but loneliness, self hatred, fear and sadness …

I hate this religion, and won’t ever shut up about it!

[kafkasgirlhood]

gang update i accidentally just took a bite of marshmallow with gelatin in it for the very first time

compared to marshmallows without gelatin … it's honestly nothing different in texture or taste . i guess the one with gelatin is slightly fluffier and easier to bite through though

[blackcat7977]

i don't understand how this comes down to freedom I genuinely don't care if someone wants to call themselves pigs or furries or say they are a women when they are not. The problem comes when men start demanding access into women's bathroom, into women's bars, into women's circles, into women's sports. You want to live a delusion go ahead but that's not all they want is it they want to invade womens spaces that we fought for. If invading women's spaces is called freedom then something is wrong with u

Why does every apostate/ex-religious person I find who makes great content about it that I really agree with and understand end up being a terf like stop pretending you care about people's personal freedom if you can't just let people outwardly present themselves how they want to without lecturing them about the endocrine system as if you're a total expert on it

Tldr: this account isn't safe for terfs

[our-exmoose-experience]

Happy intersex awareness day to all Intersex Ex-Muslims!

(I know I'm a bit late sorry)

[voxpraxis]

[video of two muslim women in full-coverage outfits]

commenter 1: sister your dress needs to be longer, your feet should be covered

commenter 2: sister your dress is too long, it is dragging on the floor

commenter 3: sisters neither of your outfits are proper hijab

commenter 4: sisters being on social media is immodest and distracting

verdict: you can't win

[apostateoverrubies]

I hope all my ex Muslim followers are doing okay.

[kafkasgirlhood]

oh my gods literally same except with islam. it's difficult because i still live with my unaware muslim family and every evening my little cousins have qur'an lessons. it's really difficult to hear them reading it knowing that they don't know the words they're saying but i do. especially because islam is a huge part of every muslim's life ( which is not a bad thing ! paganism is a huge part of my own life ) so at everything they go "alhamdulillah" or "astaghfirullah".

at times it's not even religion , it's just the words they grew up with.

it's so difficult mainly because a lot of muslims are really kindhearted and a majority of them don't even know the things about islam that made me leave. funny thing is i only started questioning things after looking deeper into islam, so the less a muslim knows then the more highly they think of it ( unless they are a cishet man because islam benefits cishet men a ton ). that's why most muslim feminists you see are ones living in western countries. if they knew how it was like to be a woman in an islamic country… i wouldn't wish that on anybody.

i'm trying not to. hell, it goes so deep that the only veiling i can manage to do is the type that looks like a bandana, because any other full head-coverage reminds me of the hijab and that's a big No for my brain. i don't have the money for a therapist so i'm trying to work through it myself and catch myself every time i find myself going do they even know the words they're repeating? at a kid reciting the qur'an.

trying to learn that i'm no better than anyone else for my beliefs. because unfortunately, islam encourages that a lot when you're a muslim.

i feel really really bad but i still hate on christianity sometimes

and i try not to, but my religious trauma and all the years i was going to church 7 days a week got to me 💀

i quite literally roll my eyes whenever i see a post targeted for christianity anywhere

and again, i TRY not to do that

atp its involuntary

i don’t want to be those pagans that are like “im okay with every religion except christianity!!”

no, i want to at least tolerate it??

and support the people in it

i should be going to therapy in a couple months so hopefully this can be something i can talk about…

[queerism1969]

[radfemsiren]

Some beautiful responses, Islam is anti women, and the truth will come to light.

The “awrah” in Islam is the shameful parts of the body that must be covered from public view. The awrah for women is always huge expanses of her body in every school of Islamic thought, while the man only needs to cover knees to navel. He can exist freely.

Female oppression is sex based oppression, in every culture.

[feministfang]

Islam is the most misogynistic religion on earth. It’s the most oppressive cult for women among all abrahamic religions. Women can’t get out of their house. Women have to hide themselves in black tents they wear from head to toe. Women can’t even show one strand of hair. Check out the comments under any Pakistani female celebrity’s post and you will be disgusted. Women get attacked by religious bigots even for wearing half-sleeves. Women can’t initiate divorce easily and a lot of them are stuck in abusive marriages. Women are supposed to obey their husbands and can’t deny sex or they will be cursed by their god. Marital rape is allowed and encouraged in islam. Parents’ inheritance is not divided equally between brothers and sisters because women are expected to get married and rely financially on their husbands. Only men can be authority figures and be leaders, women are supposed to be quiet and submissive. Their prophet (idol) was literally a fuckin pedo. And these are just a few examples of how women are treated in islam. I don’t get how these dumbass muslim women still find the audacity to say shit like 'iSlAm iS tHe mOst peAceFul rEligIoN and tHe mOst fEmiNistic religion cAusE iT gAve wOmEn tHeIr rIgHts 1400 yeaRs aGo' what right?? Where’s the right lol?? All i see is oppression and violence in your religion. You can’t even give your opinion without some man’s permission but because his money is your money and your money is also yours you think islam fulfilled all your desires. It’s true that the more religious a person is, the more narrow-minded they are but muslim women have crossed all limits of stupidity. So glad i cut off such people from my life and saved one woman from converting to islam. ☪️ancer religion!!

[crownspeaksblog]

Marriage in general is fucked in the middle east..

I hate hate HATE living in a country where girls being married off at 15 is seen as something to be envious of.. is seen as something to be admired for..for fuck sakes! That's a fucking child!! I remember a classmate talking about i think a cousin of hers who's 15 who's married to a 29/30 year old man and how MUCH he LOVES her and how everyday he does her FUCKING HAIR FOR FUCKING SCHOOL!!!!

i saw a video of a 26 year old mother selling food on the street to make money and the top comment on that video was a man (sincerely) offering to marry her and he had like 100 replies of people asking him if he did it already and praising him for it..

And you know what's annoying is when i try to point out how fucked up those things are.. I'm almost always in the minority, I'm almost always argued against and people try to justify something like this by being like "this is our culture"....

fuck this culture and religion because you know damn well this shit is rooted in religion.. girls married off when they hit puberty to men twice their age is seen as an accomplishment.. men being encouraged to grace widows and divorced women with their kindness and marry them like they're broken or used (even if it meant getting a second, third or a fourth wife)...

And i know to most people reading this shit it sounds like I'm making it up but I'm not and you have no idea how much i wish i was..