And why I like to join the Ex-Muslim council:

I was born in a very religious family in the Islamic country of (Iraq). Although I never liked practicing the religion, I always had done it for the sake of my family and relatives.

I had a very hard time to express what I really believed. It was only after the recent catastrophic, Islamic attacks on innocent people that I could at least discuss the issues with my close friends and tell them that what we were practicing was nothing but some inhumane norms and traditions of some Arabs who lived thousands of years ago.

My beliefs were different from most patriotic Anti Arab Kurds in Kurdistan region of Iraq. They just did not like Arabs because of their hatred towards the Kurds throughout the history. Despite all that has been done to the Kurds most of them are still Muslims simply because of the fear of going to hell, where I believed that the teachings of the Islam were the sole cause of all the problems existing in the region. I believe that we should stop defending Islam and openly discuss this ridiculous religion and try to help those that have been forced to follow it. We should talk about all that is going on behind the curtains and question things that they do not want us to discuss (Because they don\'t have any answers for them). We should encourage those who are blindly following Islam to read the Quran and Hadiths in their own language. I am positive that a great number of people will find Islam\'s teachings to be baseless once they read and question it. I think that nobody should have to follow any religion till they get to an age that they can think for themselves and decide on a religion or no religion.