Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campain today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam.
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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.
[...] ex-Muslims are lanching today a campaign for the right to abandon Islam, without reprisals. h/t O Insurgente. Let’s hope they are [...]
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