Ex-Muslim Voices
Iran Church Seizure: A Regime at War Still Finds Time to Evict Christians
Column: The Iran church seizure of St. Peter's in Tehran evicts 20 Christian families. Ex-Muslims recognize the message — no exit is permitted.
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Ex-Muslim Voices
Free Thought Daily’s Ex-Muslim Voices section shares personal stories, analysis, and reflections on belief, doubt, identity, freedom of thought, and life after religion
Ex-Muslim Voices
Column: One Blasphemy Accusation on a Loudspeaker, and Two Dozen Families Ran
A blasphemy accusation broadcast from mosque loudspeakers made two dozen Pakistani families flee. An ex-Muslim column on accusation as a weapon.
Ex-Muslim Voices
Column: Flood Relief Must Carry No Sermon — a Bangladeshi Ex-Muslim’s View
Column: flood relief in Chattogram must be unconditional. Aid that arrives with politics or preaching attached is not charity.
Ex-Muslim Voices
Leaving Islam Is Still a Death Sentence Somewhere — Even as Britain Sheds Its Blasphemy Law
Leaving Islam remains a capital crime in 11 countries, even as Britain repeals its last blasphemy law. An ex-Muslim column.
Ex-Muslim Voices
Caught Between Two Mobs: French Ex-Muslims and an Election That Uses Them as Ammunition
As France heads toward 2027, French ex-Muslims become everyone's favourite example and nobody's constituency — cited by the far right, condemned by Islamists.
Ex-Muslim Voices
Watching Your Old Country Burn: Ex-Muslims and the Wars They Escaped but Cannot Leave
When the missiles fly over the lands they fled, ex-Muslims grieve twice — for the people they love, and for the certainty that leaving never fully leaves you.
Ex-Muslim Voices
Britain Nearly Rebuilt Blasphemy Law by Accident — an Ex-Muslim Was the Test Case
Britain abolished blasphemy law years ago. This year, its courts had to stop it returning through the side door — and the person standing in the doorway was, not coincidentally, an ex-Muslim. Hamit Coskun, a Turkish-born atheist asylum seeker of Armenian and Kurdish heritage, staged a one-man protest outside the Turkish consulate in London, burning […]
Ex-Muslim Voices
Iran’s Secular Generation Watches the Khamenei Funeral From Behind a Mask
Iran’s secular generation appears nowhere in this week’s funeral broadcasts, and that is precisely the point of the broadcasts. State television shows the Grand Mosalla full, the chants thunderous, the grief for Ayatollah Khamenei apparently universal — around 15 million participants expected across Tehran, Qom and Mashhad, by the government’s own health ministry. Spectacles of […]
Ex-Muslim Voices
The Apostasy Death Penalty Still Exists in 11 Countries. Leaving Islam Should Not Be a Crime.
The apostasy death penalty is not a relic of history. In 2026, eleven countries still allow the state to execute a person for leaving their religion — and this year, human rights organisations once again stood before the UN Human Rights Council asking the world to do something about it. Let that sink in. Not […]
Ex-Muslim Voices
Religion Promises Peace, but Too Often Teaches People to Fight
From South Asia to the Middle East and the West, organised religion too often turns identity into conflict. Humanity needs freedom from religious control, fear and holy hatred.