People Who Left Islam Are Explaining Why Using the #ExMuslimBecause Hashtag

[MADem]

76. So's christianity, too, if you practice it on all cylinders.

There are "Jack Muslims" in the world, though. I've talked about this before on this board.

People who turn up for the major holidays, who may take grampa to the masjid on odd occasion, who eat bacon, who like a drink, who don't believe in the multiple wives schtick, or the promises of the afterlife. They might not observe Ramadan, but they don't make it obvious that they don't out of respect for the culture.

There are people who are not observant, slightly observant, reasonably observant, very observant, and fundamentalist full-bore noxiously observant. In the western press, though, we only seem to get a window on the latter types.

Jimmy Carter is not the same as people from the Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist Church. They're all Christians, though, so they say. No broad brush with them, though...