A man’s awrah is roughly a pair of Bermuda shorts, while a woman’s awrah is her entire body, and that’s the way uh huh uh huh Allah likes it???

And we don’t even get a choice or say in criticizing, changing or challenging this 1400 year old mansplaining of our existence?

I felt sick to my stomach learning about the Islamic concept of awrah, and how incredibly sad it was that #Hislam, its doctrine and leaders have been teaching Muslims to view the whole entire female body, from head to toe, as nakedness, as something we should be ashamed of and hide to not tempt men.

Like as if we’re not even humans, but objects made from and for men, meant to serve, obey, please, and care more about god and men than ourselves?

What do you even mean I have to cover myself because any part of my body, even my voice, makes men horny, gives them bners, makes them jrk off, makes them assault me, makes them grape me, so it’s my fault I exist as a woman?

What do you mean my body is a source of sin, shame and sexual chaos so I have to hide behind clothing?

What do you mean girls and women should feel guilty for existing in their bodies?

What do you mean I’m responsible for male self-control and my body is a danger to men’s purity?

Islam has basically given Muslims, obviously men, the power to shame, harm and hide 50% of the population with 100% misogyny, sexism and purity culture. But it’s not protection or for safety reasons. It’s objectification and sexualization of girls’ and women’s bodies sold as 7th century man-made morality.

What was once created as a way for men to identify Muslim, non-Muslim and enslaved women by the men creating Islam on the fly, has now become suffocating, unequal gender-biased norms within Islam. Women continue to be taught to become ummah incubators, subjugated with Islamic purity, shaming and modesty rules, and then we’re blamed for being women, while making men feel special and entitled about being born with a gun in their pants.

Wtf kind of misogynist logic is that? This is certainly not my choice.

Always felt like someone was watching me 😣

ExMuslims share the things that used to and still scare us after leaving Islam (TW). Thanks for your responses ExMuslims! ❤️

As ExMuslims, it can be daunting, frustrating and lonely as we navigate our lives after leaving Islam, especially trying to find friends and build relationships in-person can seem impossible. That’s where the Internet and social media come through for us! 🥳

And, that’s why this beautiful connection between neurodivergent kafirs @veiledrosee2021 and @apostatelayla made me so happy to hear about! Much love to you both! 😘😘

Veiled Rose shared: So much of my life I have had to fight shame, shame for not conforming. So much of my life I have been masking my true self. Finally meeting a fellow ND ExMuslim I have felt truly seen understood and belonging. Finally I can breathe and take off the suffocating mask. Be truly human. Be truly me.

Apostate Layla shared: When I started meeting others in exmuslim spaces for the first time I wasn’t sure how my neurodivergence would be received as I’m very open about it. Nobody has said anything at all which is great but always having to explain myself as to my differences in my videos is tiring , then one day I saw a post from a mutual and she was talking about being ND and an exmuslim and I got lit up inside with happiness. We finally got a chance to connect and chat and it felt so natural and affirming - it’s great to have that understanding and solidarity what we lost with Islam can be rebuilt. (You can also find Apostate Layla on YouTube)

And to all the Neurodivergent ExMuslims, you are not alone. ❤️ Keep being your unique, lovely selves!

ExMuslims leave Islam based on evidence from verified Muslim sources like the Quran, Hadith, Tafsir and Islamic history.

And, because our values of freedom, curiosity, care, empathy, equity, justice, progress and fairness replace the old school Islamic values of authority, violence, subjugation, control, obedience and supremacy created by 7th century men.

We aren't just forced to believe in Islam, we end up experiencing the harms of Islam too. Even after providing a mountain of evidence, Muslims will gaslight us into thinking we don't know what we're talking about. But we know. That's why we leave Islam.

This is how Muslim fragility plays out when Islamists are in power…

This is how religious ideas influence the religious in power to silence and punish Betty and freethinkers like us everywhere. Even for a t-shirt.

When Moroccan feminist and human rights activist Ibtissame Betty Lachgar defended freedom and posted a photo of herself on X wearing an Allah is Lesbian t-shirt…

She was first bombarded online with violent, death and rape threats.

Then she was arrested, fined and imprisoned for 30 months in Morocco for “insulting Islam”… A ridiculous blasphemy charge made possible by the religious and their fragility.

You’d think we were talking about ancient times but this literally happened 2-3 months ago.

I had just met Betty earlier this year for an event, in a secular country where she was freely wearing that same exact t-shirt.

I urge you all to visit and share FREEBETTY.ORG to help amplify Betty’s case as she’s denied appeals and critical medical care for her cancer.

#FreeBetty #DecriminalizeBlasphemy

You’re not alone! 🤗

What is this billboard you ask? 🤔
It’s part of an epic #whyNOTislam campaign by @exmuslimsorg in the US!

Along with two massive billboards up in New Jersey, ExMuslims of North America has also created whyNOTislam.net as a resource of secretly and frequently asked questions for Muslims, Ex-Muslims, and anyone who values the freedom to doubt, dissent, and leave religion.

1 in 4 Muslims have left Islam.

According to Pew Research:
“About a quarter of adults who were raised Muslim (23%) no longer identify as members of the faith, roughly on par with the share of Americans who were raised Christian and no longer identify with Christianity (22%), according to a new analysis of the 2014 Religious Landscape Study. But while the share of American Muslim adults who are converts to Islam also is about one-quarter (23%), a much smaller share of current Christians (6%) are converts.

In other words, Christianity as a whole loses more people than it gains from religious switching (conversions in both directions) in the U.S., while the net effect on Islam in America is a wash.

A 2017 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Muslims, using slightly different questions than the 2014 survey, found a similar estimate (24%) of the share of those who were raised Muslim but have left Islam.

Among this group, 55% no longer identify with any religion, according to the 2017 survey. Fewer identify as Christian (22%), and an additional one-in-five (21%) identify with a wide variety of smaller groups, including faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, or as generally “spiritual.”

For those seeking data - link below and since you can’t click links here, search online for “pew research share of Americans who leave Islam”

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/01/26/the-share-of-americans-who-leave-islam-is-offset-by-those-who-become-muslim/

The Quran doesn't even talk to women... so it's been corrected.

Q2:221 And marry polytheistic women. Marry polytheistic men.
Q2:222 And they ask you about menstruation, say it is natural so care for women during menstruation. And do not approach them without consent.
Q2:223 Your wives are humans so ask for consent.
Q2:228 Divorced women must not wait before they can remarry. It is lawful for them to conceal what they created in their wombs. And their husbands have no right to take them back in this period if they want reconciliation. And due to the couple is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the adults do not have a degree over each other [in responsibility and authority. And Allah is not exalted in might and wise. So if a couple divorces, then it is their mutual decision to reunite.
Q2:282 If two men cannot be found, then two women of your choice will witness so if one them forgets the other may remind them.
Q4:1 O humans, women created you.
Q4:3 And if you fear that you will not deal justly, then don’t marry. That is more suitable that you may not incline to injustice.
Q4:11 Concerning your children, their portions of inheritance, for the male what is equal to the share of female.
Q4:15 As for those of you who consent to having sex, call no one. Confine no one.
Q4:24 And also prohibited to you are all women except those you get consent from.
Q4:25 And whoever among you cannot find the means to marry, then don’t marry.
Q4:34 Men are not in charge of women. So women are free to guard. But those partners from whom you fear arrogance, forsake them.
Q33:59 O Prophet, tell men to respect women no matter what!

More to come.

Islam: Your whole existence is for Allah, men and procreation.
Me: Ummm no.

Three Eid, I mean, weed hugs to you all! ❤

I’m wondering… How many more of us have to die before the world admits that saying no to men, religion and religious men can also get us k.lled?

Just for wanting freedom, choices, autonomy, love, opportunities, options, and to just f*cking live life on our own terms?

Note: The featured image above is not a comprehensive list but includes names of some of the girls and women who were k.lled for defying Islamist beliefs, laws and rules practiced in their Islamic homes and countries.

2002 , Hina Saleem, Italy
2002, Fadime Sahindal, Sweden
2006, Banaz Mahmod, UK
2007, Aqsa Parvez, Canada
2008, Sandeela Kanwal, USA
2009, Aasiya Zubair, USA
2009, Fauzia Aamir, USA
2014, Farzana Parveen, Pakistan
2016, Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan
2020, Romina Ashrafi, Iran
2021, Saman Abbas, Italy
2021, Noor Mukadam, Pakistan
2022, Somaiya Begum, UK
2022, Mona Heydari, Iran
2022, Mahsa Amini, Iran
2022, Doski Azad, Iraq
2023, Tiba al-Ali, Iraq
2023, Urooj and Anisa Abbas, Pakistan
2024, Zahra, Afghanistan
2024, Marina Sadat, Afghanistan
2025, Fatemeh Soltani, Iran
2025, Muzhda Habibi, Australia
2025, Sana Yousaf, Pakistan

Statement from Ex-Muslims International co-written and graphics designed by Haram Doodles

LGBTQ+ Ex-Muslims Have Every Right to Live and Love Free From Islam

This Pride Month, Ex-Muslims International stands in unwavering solidarity with LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims across the globe—those who are not only criminalized for who they love and who they are, but also for what they no longer believe. #ExMuslimPride

For LGBTQ+ individuals who have left Islam or are questioning their faith, life is not just difficult—it can be dangerous. In many Muslim-majority societies, queer identity and religious dissent are both seen as moral crimes. There are 57 Muslim-majority countries in the world today. Among them:

• At least 12 countries criminalize and punish apostasy (leaving Islam) and blasphemy with the death penalty, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Mauritania and Afghanistan.
• Over 30 Muslim-majority countries criminalize homosexuality, and
• At least 6—including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Mauritania, Yemen, and Afghanistan—impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships.

LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims are at triple risk: for who they are, who they love and for what they believe.

They are silenced, erased, threatened, and punished—by the state, by their families, and by religious authorities.

Even in the diaspora, many LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims are forced to live double lives. In families where Islamic doctrine dominates, being queer is seen as a sin or a sickness, and apostasy is a source of shame or violence. They are cut off from support networks, denied safe and affirming healthcare, education, housing, and work. Their access to freedom, safety, and opportunity is limited by discrimination and deeply rooted cultural and religious homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry.

They are told: you cannot be gay and Muslim. And if they leave the faith: you cannot leave and live.

This criminalization is grounded in centuries-old interpretations of Islamic scripture. Traditional jurisprudence (fiqh) frames same-sex relationships as forbidden, trans identities as invalid or punishable, and apostasy as a crime—often a capital one. These views have been codified into law and enforced with devastating consequences.

Religious homophobia and apostophobia are deeply intertwined. The same doctrines that denounce queerness as sinful often cast doubt, dissent, and unbelief as threats to divine order. In many Muslim communities, this dual rejection fuels practices like conversion therapy—justified by scripture, and often carried out by imams, families, or so-called “healers”—to forcibly “correct” both sexual orientation and loss of faith.

These coercive acts are not fringe; they reflect mainstream religious teachings that conflate deviation from heteronormativity and from Islam as moral collapse. In countries where Islamic law governs, this ideology is codified with deadly consequences: the death penalty is imposed for both homosexuality and apostasy in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia. This violent synergy between religious dogma and state power is not about “faith”—it’s about control.

But LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims exist. We resist. We love. We survive. And we deserve to thrive.

This Pride Month, here’s how you can support LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims:

1. Listen and believe our stories—even when they challenge your worldview.
2. Share and uplift the voices of LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims online and offline. Visibility saves lives.
3. Support or volunteer with organizations that provide shelter, asylum, mental health support, and legal aid to persecuted ex-Muslims and LGBTQ+ individuals in Muslim communities.
4. Call out homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry—even when it’s cloaked in “cultural sensitivity.” Human rights are not negotiable.
5. Advocate for secular protections and refugee policies that explicitly recognize the persecution LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims face.
6. Create safe, affirming spaces for questioning individuals—especially in immigrant, refugee, and diasporic communities where these conversations are most silenced.

To be queer and ex-Muslim is to be doubly marginalized. But we are here, and we are not alone. Pride is not just celebration—it’s resistance. And for LGBTQ+ ex-Muslims, pride is radical survival.

This June, we invite you to not just wave a rainbow flag, but to stand with us—for safety, for freedom, and for the right to be, live, and love—without fear.

Pride Mubarak!

In Solidarity,

Ex-Muslims International

These scare tactics just don't work anymore. And the fear automagically goes away as soon as you stop believing.

What scared you? Here's some more stupid shit aka made up stories that would scare me while I was still a Muslim:

• Dajjal
• Yajuj Majuj
• Rocks will also tell you there's a Jew hiding behind it before the day of judgement
• Afterlife
• Being turned into apes and pigs by Allah
• Earthquakes caused by homosexuality

Being free and demanding our freedom from Mo and the Mullahs, Allah, Islamic Regimes/States, and Islam = Feminism

Side doodle: Mo and the Mullahs sounds like a band name. 😂

Best of Album - Add more song names in the comments!

Shut up and pray
Oops, Shaitaan did it again
Like a (Jannah) Virgin
I took a pill in Medina
Jinn & Juice

Dearest Autistic and Neurodiverse ExMuslims,
We see you.
You are perfect.
You belong.
Love,
ExMuslim Community

Special thanks and shout out to ExMuslims @thornofrage and @sentinelsatya_esp for sharing! ❤️

Oh, is that why Allah made more rules specifically for women? He sucks at math and feminism!