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for featuring only ex-Muslim atheists and agnostics' excerpts from the book, and none from people who left Islam for another religion: "This website is not dedicated to people who have exchanged one type of irrationality for another." Mulder concludes that the books' contributors are "impressive, because these people have literally put their lives on the line."
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an important reason to break away from their religion. (...) The anger against
Muhammad is enormous amongst apostates," especially concerning the oppression of women, human rights violations and mass murder. Although Warraq does discuss a few such cases in the book, Mulder criticised Warraq's website
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about the book and the context in which it was composed. He cited several of his co-authors and other ex-Muslims who decided to leave the faith for a variety of reasons, but stated that these people rarely dared to speak out for themselves, and non-Muslims such as
Western publishers often refused to
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is "probably the first book of its kind — a compendium of testimonies from former
Muslims about their estrangement from the Islamic faith." Finding the personal stories widely varying in quality ("from the tragic to the trite"), it remarked that the "long and illustrious history of Muslim doubt" in
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grant them a platform out of fear. Unlike himself however, Warraq said he was surprised that many co-authors, especially the women (whose stories he thought readers would "find the most moving"), were prepared to write their testimonies under their real names rather than pseudonyms.
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found the book "interesting, because it shows how the process of deconversion occurs in Muslim migrants." On the other hand, there was an apparent inconsistency in the authors' attitude towards the
Abrahamic holy books. They agreed that both the Quran and the
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being accessible around the globe and users with other native languages now able to communicate in unprecedented ways that censorship would previously prevent. "For the first time in history, Muslims will have unrestrained access to anti-Islamic
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to support his claim that there were a large number of ex-Muslims and to encourage other
Muslims to openly leave Islam. He also said his target audience with the book was not just Muslims but everyone.
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307:'s depraved lifestyle, about his shameful acts and his foolish claims." Many of the authors are from Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh, where a strict version of Islam dominates society, even though the
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s assertion that the fact that the death penalty for apostasy is supported by several passages in the hadith, this means this reflects the 21st-century mainstream Muslim opinion on the matter.
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isn't Arabic, and these authors only discovered the real meaning of the texts after reading translations of the Quran, hadith and other early
Islamic writings when they moved to the West.
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The next section presents the history of the application of
Islamic jurisprudence on apostates, documenting notable cases from the early centuries of Islam, such as those of freethinkers
425:. The rule, applying in all Islamic countries, that only Islam may enter the marketplace of new religious ideas, has definitively come to an end due to the Internet, and Ibn Warraq."
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Part 2 consists of numerous case studies, covering modern-day apostasies, and conversions-out-of-Islam trends throughout the world. These were submitted to the website of the
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