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With all sincerity, what has a nation gained from implementing Sharia as state law that a secular nation cannot achieve? Has it eliminated poverty? Ended corruption? Protected women and children? Guaranteed justice for Muslims and non-Muslims alike? Instead, some countries enforcing Sharia have laws that restrict religious freedom, discriminate against women, permit child marriage and punish blasphemy or apostasy. And all of this is justified in the name of Islam. So, an honest question for Muslims who advocate political Sharia: What has political Sharia actually achieved that makes these restrictions and punishments necessary?

To some Muslims, if you refuse to support killing people for blasphemy, you are a bad Muslim. So I must support the killing of another human being to prove my love for Muhammad? Since when did loving a prophet require me to defend murder? If your love for Muhammad requires you to justify killing people, then something is seriously wrong. Shame on you.

To some Muslims, if you refuse to support killing people for blasphemy, you are a bad Muslim. So I must support the killing of another human being to prove my love for Muhammad? Since when did loving a prophet require me to defend murder? If your love for Muhammad requires you to justify killing people, then something is seriously wrong. Shame on you.

Paul Mackenzie, a Christian preacher in Kenya, has been found guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult. He convinced his followers to starve themselves and their children to death because he claimed they would reach heaven before the world ended. Imagine if a Muslim cleric had done this. The world would be talking about Islam, Muslims would be asked to condemn it, and the religion itself would be put on trial. But here is the point: Mackenzie does not represent every Christian, just as terrorists do not represent every Muslim. If you refuse to blame all Christians for one man's crimes, stop blaming all Muslims for the crimes of terrorists.

Some people speak about protecting their country from Muslims as though Muslims cannot be part of the country themselves. But a Muslim can love his country, obey its laws, pay his taxes, care for his neighbours and want the same future for his children as anyone else. My religion does not automatically place me on the other side of society. I am not a threat to the country I call home simply because I am Muslim.

You tell Muslims to integrate into society. Then you treat them like outsiders when they do. You tell them to contribute to their countries, yet question their loyalty simply because they pray differently. You demand that they respect your freedom to believe what you want, yet struggle to extend the same courtesy to them. So tell me, what exactly does integration mean? How can Muslims ever belong if, no matter how well they integrate, some people will always see them as outsiders?

I heard a scholar say that a married man or woman who commits adultery must be stoned to death. When challenged that this punishment is not in the Quran, he defended it by saying it is in the hadith. Seriously? First, when did hadith become more authoritative than the Quran? How can we justify taking a human life with a punishment Allah does not explicitly prescribe in His Book? Second, what kind of God are we portraying? Islam teaches compassion towards animals, yet we defend burying a human being and stoning them to death. I refuse to believe that defending Allah requires me to defend cruelty in His name. Allah is not a monster. But when we attribute brutal punishments to Him without question, we make Him look like one.

I don't believe Allah needs me to hate Christians, threaten atheists or kill people who disagree with me. I don't believe I have to prove I am a good Muslim by making life difficult for someone who isn't Muslim. I have my beliefs. Other people have theirs. We can disagree about religion without becoming enemies. Why is that so difficult for some people to understand?

I am Muslim, and I have a place in this world. I do not need to become Christian, abandon my identity, or pretend my faith does not matter to prove that I can live peacefully with people who believe differently. We can disagree about God and still respect one another's humanity. You do not have to accept my religion to accept that I have every right to live peacefully as a Muslim.

I want to ask anyone who fears Muslims simply for being Muslim a question. What exactly have Muslims done to you? Have we threatened you? Have we harmed your family? Have we tried to force our beliefs on you? Or have you already decided who we are before giving us the chance to show you? Because if we are guilty before we act, then you are not judging our character. You are judging our identity.

I will condemn terrorism. I will condemn religious extremism. I will condemn anyone who uses Islam to justify cruelty. But I will not apologise for being Muslim. My existence is not an offence. My faith is not a confession of guilt. I can answer for my own actions. I will not carry the crimes of strangers.

You may have your reasons for fearing terrorism. I understand that. But I refuse to accept that my identity must be shaped by your fear. I am not responsible for every person who shares my religion, just as you are not responsible for every person who shares yours. Fear may explain your suspicion of me. It does not make that suspicion fair.

Imagine having to prove you are not dangerous simply because of the religion you belong to. Imagine your neighbours questioning your loyalty, strangers fearing your presence, and people treating your faith as evidence against your character. That is the reality many ordinary Muslims face. I should be judged by what I do, not by what someone else does in the name of Islam.

I am a Muslim living in a world where some people see my religion before they see me. I am not asking you to agree with Islam. I am not asking you to abandon your beliefs. I am asking for something much simpler. Let me be an ordinary human being before you turn me into a suspect.

If God can forgive sins, why was Jesus' death necessary for forgiveness? Could God not forgive humanity without a sacrifice? If God is all-powerful, what stopped Him from simply forgiving?

Show me one verse in the Quran that commands Muslims to kill people for insulting Allah or Muhammad. You cannot preach peace with one hand and demand dead bodies with the other. A religion of peace should not need a corpse to prove its devotion to God.

I fear any nation that calls itself an Islamic or Sharia state. Too often, what comes out of these places is not justice, but oppression dressed up as religion. Brutal punishments, human rights abuses, and laws that crush people in the name of God. Slapping the word Islamic on a country does not make its cruelty holy. You cannot claim to represent God while using religion to justify the oppression of human beings.

Only one person demands blood, and that is the devil. So when we kill people for blaspheming Allah or insulting Muhammad, what exactly are we defending? If we claim to worship the one true God, why are we spilling human blood over words? Since when did defending God become an excuse for killing His creation?

Would I kill for Allah? NEVER. Would I kill for Muhammad? NEVER. Not for any imam, scholar, or religious leader. No God worth worshipping needs me to become a monster to prove my devotion.

“The sorrows of those who seek another god shall be multiplied.” Someone sent me this words, and honestly, I haven't been able to get it out of my head. 😞