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Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
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Leaving Islam, a book written and edited by secularist author Ibn Warraq, is a critical look at Islam and the Qur'an. It provides a history of apostasy in Islam, and contains a number of testimonies of "born Muslims" including the Iranian ex-Muslim Ali Sina and western converts describing their apostasy.
"The Koran does not contain a single humane teaching that was not here before Islam. Mankind will not lose a single moral precept if Islam is not there tomorrow. After consulting the Koran, the hadith, the Prophet’s biography, and Islamic history for years, with a guarded, open mind, I related the past to the present. People tried reforming Islam; it never worked. Again and again, Islam was mortgaged in the hands of killer leadership, while the rest of the Muslim world only said “this is not real Islam”." — from Muhammad bin Abdulla's "Now I Am Guided" in Leaving Islam.
- Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out Prometheus Books (May 2003) ISBN 1-59102-068-9
