Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد engagement report

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• Dec 23, 202490x their median

  I was born and raised as a Muslim. My father was the imam of our village mosque. I had no intention of leaving Islam if I believed it was the truth. However, I left it because it no longer made sense to me, and I could not reconcile its issues. 1. Problems with its founder, Muhammad Muhammad’s actions and teachings raise significant concerns: •He was a violent leader, involved in 27 wars and 56 raids, most of which he initiated rather than defended. •He subjugated neighboring tribes, enslaved their men, women, and children, and engaged in sexual relations with one of the captives just days after killing her family, including her husband. •He married his adopted son’s wife and wed a child, Aisha, when she was only 9 years old, while he was 53. •He exhibited questionable behavior, like having sexual relations with all his 11 wives in one night without even washing in between, and sometimes forgetting next day whether he had done sex or not. •He demanded 20% of war booty, suggesting a pursuit of power, wealth, and sexual gratification under the guise of prophethood. •He was misogynistic, teaching that women: •Have half the intelligence of men. •Are the majority of Hell’s inhabitants. •Appear in the image of Satan. •Are inherently crooked due to being created from a crooked rib. •Are cheaters and unfit to rule. 2. Issues with the Quran The Quran contains teachings and errors that are deeply troubling: •It promotes hatred towards non-Muslims through the concept of Al-Walaa wal-Baraa (loyalty to Muslims and disavowal of non-Muslims). •It commands Muslims to wage war against non-believers until they submit to Islam, and imposes the Jizya tax on Christians and Jews who refuse to convert. •It allows men to beat disobedient wives, and assigns women half the inheritance and testimony value of men. •It is riddled with historical inaccuracies, such as: •Confusing Mary, the mother of Jesus, with Miriam, the sister of Aaron. •Referring to Samaria as existing during the time of Moses. •Claiming that Haman was a minister of Pharaoh. •Depicting Alexander the Great (Dhu al-Qarnayn) as a prophet sent by God and a virtuous man. 3. Islam’s incompatibility with modern laws Islamic Hudud punishments are incompatible with human rights and modern legal systems. These include: •Amputations for theft. •Stoning and lashing for adultery. •Crucifixion. •Execution of apostates. These are barbaric 7th-century laws that have no place in today’s world. For these reasons and more, I could no longer follow Islam.

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• Aug 27, 202629x their median

  The Persecution That Doesn’t Make the Headlines I am a Muslim convert to Christianity. I lived for 15 years as a Christian believer in Morocco, much of that time in what we called the underground church. Listen carefully, because this is what “moderate Islam” looked like for us: Morocco is considered one of the most moderate Muslim countries. That is true compared with Mauritania and Libya, where converts from Islam face the death penalty, or Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Pakistan, where converts face imprisonment, torture, intimidation, or severe persecution. But here is the reality of “moderate” Morocco. We gathered secretly in homes every Sunday because churches were for foreign Christians, not Moroccan converts. We sang in low voices so the neighbors would not hear us. We arrived two at a time to avoid suspicion. If anyone asked, we pretended it was simply a gathering of family and friends. We baptized converts in bathtubs. I was baptized in a bathtub myself. A missionary and a few Moroccan Christians were the only people present. We kept our house churches small, usually fewer than twenty people. When they became too large, we split them. Christmas and a few special occasions were exceptions. Police raided Christian gatherings, confiscated Christian materials, dragged believers to police stations, interrogated them, threatened them, and humiliated them with vulgar language. Our children had to go to school and study Islam and memorize the Quran even though their parents were Christians. We could not freely give our children Christian names. The government did not need to write “Christian names are forbidden” in bold letters. The authorities simply refused to register them. Our marriages were treated as Islamic marriages under Sharia because the Moroccan state refused to recognize us for what we actually were: Moroccan Christians. A Moroccan Christian woman could not simply marry a foreign Christian man as a Christian. He had to establish before the authorities that he was Muslim because, according to the government, she was still a Muslim. The state decided our religion for us. Even death did not end it. When a Moroccan Christian died, he was buried in a Muslim cemetery under Islamic rituals because the government still considered him Muslim. I remember one Moroccan Christian who died in Tangier. We had to do the impossible to get his body to Ceuta so he could receive a Christian funeral. Imagine having to smuggle your religious identity across a border just to be buried according to your own faith. We could not establish our own legal Moroccan churches. We could not get permission to build even one church for Moroccan converts. Our house churches were illegal gatherings. We lived at the mercy of the police. Any meeting could be raided. Any neighbor could report us. Foreign Christians had churches. Moroccan Christians had secrecy, whispers, living rooms, bathtubs, police interrogations, and fear. And then Muslims lecture the West about “Islamophobia.” Spare me. 1/2

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• Sep 8, 202622x their median

  “The Quran has very clear guidelines… we’re not allowed to take civilian life!” Mohammed Hijab hits back at Jonathan Conricus, accusing him of "being an ignoramus" and misrepresenting Islam. 📺 https://t.co/Yl1imlz2xb @piersmorgan | @jconricus | @mohammed_hijab https://t.co/50fRNGTKMi

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• Aug 30, 202613x their median

  A Storm Is Erupting in Morocco: His Crime? Questioning Islam A storm is exploding in Morocco over Dr. Mohamed El Fayed, a nutrition specialist who dared to wander into forbidden territory: questioning Islamic claims publicly. Recently, he questioned the claim that Muhammad was illiterate. His argument was deliberately provocative: “Allah supposedly wanted to deliver His final and most important revelation to all humanity, yet He chose an illiterate man in the Arabian desert to communicate it. Does that really make sense?” His comments went viral. And what happened next tells you everything. Instead of simply answering him, Salafi clerics and ordinary Moroccans began demanding his arrest, prosecution, and execution for apostasy/insulting the prophet. Arrest him. Silence him. Punish him. Why? Because he asked questions about Islam. If his arguments are ridiculous, destroy them with evidence. If Islam is unquestionably true, what exactly are you afraid of? But when questioning a religious claim triggers demands for police, prosecutors, and punishment, you are no longer defending Islam with arguments. You are asking the state to protect Islam from arguments. Truth does not need handcuffs. And considering the hostility faced by people who publicly challenge Islam, I genuinely fear that El Fayed could eventually face prosecution or even physical harm. So here is the uncomfortable question: Is Islam protected in Morocco because it is convincing, or because questioning it can come with consequences?

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• Aug 26, 202613x their median

  In Libya, a man was beaten simply for wearing a cross around his neck. Meanwhile, Muslims in the West enjoy every freedom and cry “Islamophobia” at the slightest criticism, while Christians in Muslim-majority countries can be attacked for something as simple as wearing a cross. https://t.co/aXdpMbgaoD

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• Sep 26, 202610x their median

  MY ANCESTORS CONVERTED UNDER THE SWORD I spent much of my life believing a lie, a big one. My parents told me I was Arab. My mother said she was Arab. My father said he was Arab and even claimed “holy blood,” as many North Africans do when claiming descent from the Prophet’s family. Then I came to America and took a DNA test. The result shocked me: 94% North African Amazigh. I wasn’t from the Arabian Peninsula. My roots were right where my family had lived for generations: North Africa. Suddenly, the history made sense. When Arab-Muslim armies conquered North Africa in the 7th and 8th centuries, the Amazigh did not simply disappear. They resisted the new rulers repeatedly, sometimes fiercely. Over the centuries, much of North Africa was Islamized and Arabized. Indigenous languages, religions, identities, and histories were pushed aside as Arabic and Islam became dominant. Somewhere along my family line, being “Arab” became the story passed from parent to child. Perhaps claiming Arab, and especially prestigious Arab, ancestry offered status, protection, or simply a way to belong in the society that emerged after the conquest. The irony is that science eventually challenged the family story. My DNA said: You are Amazigh. You are North African. Christianity had deep roots in pre-Islamic North Africa. This was the land of Augustine, Tertullian, Cyprian, and countless North African Christians. Then conquest transformed the region, followed over centuries by Islamization and Arabization. So when people romanticize the “spread of Islam” in North Africa as though our ancestors simply heard the message and enthusiastically abandoned everything they had been, I ask them to read the history of conquest, taxation, slavery, rebellion, and resistance. My ancestors did not need foreigners from Arabia to give them an identity. They already had one. Their land was North Africa. Their people were Amazigh. Their languages existed before Arabic arrived. Their religions were Christianity and Judaism. Their history existed before Islam arrived. Today, Morocco officially recognizes Tamazight, the language of the people who were there long before the Arab conquest. For generations, we were taught to look east to discover who we were. My DNA pointed me back home. Islamization changed my ancestors’ religion. Arabization obscured their identity. But neither could change their blood.

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• Sep 19, 20269.2x their median

  I Would Not Say the Shahada When I came to Christ, I hid it. Only a handful of people I trusted knew. Then a cousin I trusted sold me. They went to my mother first. She cried from shame. She thought they were lying, jealous, she said, because I was doing well at school. She wanted to prove them wrong. They gathered at my aunt’s house. Family gatherings were normal. I walked in thinking it was just another day. The air was wrong. Every face in the room was on me. “Are you still a Muslim or did you become a Nasrani?” I laughed. Tried to turn it into a joke. It died in the room. My mother was holding back tears. “Just say the Shahada. Prove them wrong.” A few seconds. They felt like a year. On one side: my mother’s face. On the other: the truth. I chose the truth. “Mom, I can’t.” Then the room broke. See? We told you.
Yelling. Spitting.
Go to those Christians. Let them feed you.
You are a shame to your father. My mother sobbing. I went numb. The noise fell behind me like a film I was no longer in. I walked out with nowhere to go. The world I knew had collapsed, not because I had become a criminal, but because I had left Islam. That is what apostasy is in that world. Not a change of mind. A public execution of your name. In some places a physical execution as well, thankfully mine was not the case. Leaving Islam is a rebirth. You get your lungs back. You get your mind back. You get your humanity back. If I had said the Shahada that day, I would have bought peace with a lie. I would have stayed a slave to the crowd, safe, loved, and dead inside. I remembered the words of Jesus: “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” I lost the room.
I kept myself.

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• Aug 20, 20267.8x their median

  Thank You, America I was born and raised in Morocco. I’m a migrant to the U.S. I came to America because I converted to Christianity and no longer had true freedom of religion in my own country. I lived under constant investigation, threats, fear, and uncertainty. We (my wife and me) fled to the United States not knowing what our future would look like. We applied for asylum, and America gave us protection. When we first arrived, we needed help. During that first year, we received some government assistance, especially medical assistance when our first son was born. Then we got on our feet. Since then, we have worked, paid our taxes, supported our family, and asked for no government assistance. Today, my three children are Americans. They work. They study. Two are enrolled in some of the best universities in America, and the youngest is finishing high school. They are Christians, and they are proud to be Americans. I raised them to remember their roots as Moroccans, but I also made one thing very clear: You are Americans first. No identity crisis. No divided loyalty. Be grateful for the country that gave your family freedom. America gave us protection when we needed it. It gave us opportunity. It gave our children security, freedom, and a future. Had I remained in Morocco, their lives could have been very different. As Christians, they could have faced discrimination and bullying. And as their father, openly speaking about my conversion from Islam to Christianity and publicly criticizing Islam could expose me to prosecution, persecution, and probably even death. As a public figure, my opinions and choices would come at a serious price. In America, I can speak, I can worship, I can criticize, and I can disagree, and I will not be jailed for any of that. Plus I don’t need permission from the government to believe what I believe. That is America. The First Amendment protects freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Those words are not abstract principles to me. I know what life looks like without them. America gave me something my country of birth (Morocco) could not fully give me: the freedom to live according to my conscience, to express my beliefs openly, and to raise my children without forcing them to hide their faith. Today I am an American citizen. I vote. I exercise my freedom of religion and freedom of speech to their fullest extent, and I will forever be grateful for that privilege. That is also why I struggle to understand people who come to this country, benefit from its freedom and opportunities, take advantage of everything it offers, and then despise the very country and system that gave them those opportunities. I teach my children something different. Love America. Serve America. Defend its freedoms. Never forget what this country did for your family. America gave their parents refuge. It gave their family dignity. It gave them a future. America gave me what I desperately needed when I arrived: protection, dignity, religious freedom, freedom of expression, and the opportunity to build a new life. For that, I will always say: Thank you, America.

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• Aug 18, 20266.1x their median

  A letter to Palestinians: Enough is enough For 78 years, since 1948, the Arab world (and those in it) has been told to bleed, fight, pay, and sacrifice for Palestine. Enough. You rejected the existence of a Jewish state and expected generations of Arabs and non Arabs to inherit that war. Their soldiers died. Their economies paid. Their governments poured billions into “the cause ”. And after every defeat, the answer was the same: more war, more money, more martyrs, more excuses. You turned terrorism into “resistance.” Jews were murdered on buses, in cafés, and in their streets. Planes were hijacked. Athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. Suicide bombers were celebrated while children were raised to hate and believe that dying was preferable to compromise. You demanded money from the Arab world and the West while you own corrupt leaders enriched themselves. The world paid for schools, hospitals, refugee agencies, food, and infrastructure, while your people stole money to build rockets, weapons, tunnels, and suicide belts. And wherever Palestinian terrorists went, others paid the price. Jordan nearly lost control of its own country during Black September. Lebanon was dragged into a civil war because of Palestinian groups. Yet responsibility is always someone else’s. Israel. America. Britain. Europe. The Arabs. The UN. The West. Anyone except your own leaders and your own political choices. Even today, the keffiyeh and Palestine are exported slogans and symbols across Western streets and campuses alongside the same message: we are victims, therefore everyone else owes us. No. We don’t owe you a thing. Our children do not owe you their blood nor their future. Our countries do not owe your factions their stability. Western taxpayers do not owe corrupt Palestinian leaders an unlimited stream of money. And nobody should be expected to finance another tunnel, rocket, or generation taught that killing Jews is a holy duty. You want a future? Then build one. Stop worshipping the past. Stop glorifying terrorism. Stop enriching corrupt leaders. Stop teaching generation after generation that destroying Israel is more important than building your own state. Accept that Jews are not disappearing and that another century of war will not change that reality. Seventy-eight years is enough. Face your failures. Take responsibility for your choices. Build something instead of destroying everything around you. And stop demanding that the rest of the world pay the bill. Leave us alone. حلّوا عنا

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• Aug 31, 20266.1x their median

  A Death Fatwa from the Heart of Europe Sheikh Rachid Nafi, a Moroccan Muslim preacher based in the Netherlands, issued a fatwa declaring that Moroccan nutritionist Mohamed El Faid should be killed for insulting the prophet. He went even further: according to Nafi, even if El Faid repents, he should still be killed, and no one, regardless of who they are, has the right to stop his execution. This is not merely a theological disagreement. It is a religious ruling calling for a man’s death over words, issued by a preacher living in the Netherlands.

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