Abdullah Sameer

أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted? (67:14)

Surah Covid 19 | Surah Corona | ١٩ ﺪﻴﻓﻮﻛ ﺓﺭﻮﺳ | سورة كورونا

This is a surah, poetry, not of the Quran, but something else, written in the 21st century by Algerian Atheist Djilou.  The New Arab reports that a Tunisian girl by the name of Al-Shariq has received death threats for SHARING this image on social media.  Why all the anger over imitating the Quran? Doesn’t the Quran itself in 2:23 challenge the reader to do EXACTLY this?

“And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah , if you should be truthful.”

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UK Vlogger threatens to kill Harris Sultan’s family – The dangers of speaking critically about Islam

This article was written on June 21, 2020

This is your friendly neighborhood exmuslim.  A few weeks or so ago, I received a vague threatening comment from a certain individual.  He didn’t like a joke that I made about Prophet Muhammad. In return he said “We leave Allah to deal with him in a way our minds cannot fathom. Sameer, you are a total scumbag. What an ignominious end shall befall you, and you will know it too when the moment is upon you” (more…)

Adnan Rashid Justifies Expelling The Jews From Arabia.

This is your friendly neighborhood exmuslim. In this piece I’m going to be responding to a video called : “Responding to Nabeel Qureshi’s “Why I Stopped Believing Islam” by Adnan Rashid.” So I’m responding to a response. You’ve got to  love that. But Nabeel is gone, so someone needs to reply to this. I am not going to tackle the entire video but focus on the first part where he discusses Muhammad kicking out the non-Muslims from Arabia. He makes it sound like Muhammad was such a peaceful gentleman who nicely relocated the Jews who lived happily ever after in Palestine.

 

Nabeel Qureshi: image from nabeelqureshi.com

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