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”
