Tikvah
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October 28, 2016

A Muslim’s Memoir of Apostasy, and His Call for Reforming Islam

Atheist Muslim.

As a child of Shiites growing up in Saudi Arabia, Ali Rizvi remembers being constantly told that violence and bloodshed in the Muslim world “had nothing to do with Islam.” He became skeptical of this explanation when he finally read the Quran—in English translation—at age twelve, beginning a journey away from the religion of his birth that supplies the foundation of his recent book, The Atheist Muslim. Oren Kessler writes in his review:

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