I Was Brainwashed by Islam… and after nearly 16 years as a Muslim, I am finally ready to admit it.
I used to think I was a “free” person - until I realized what true freedom actually is.
In this video, the speaker turns the whole “brainwashed” narrative upside down and asks a powerful question:
If Islam washed my brain… then who dirtied it in the first place?
A 40-year-old woman from West Bengal was allegedly deported to Bangladesh after being detained by police in Navi Mumbai on suspicion of being an “infiltrator”, despite her family submitting multiple government records establishing her Indian citizenship and identity, leaving her husband and two sons behind in India.
Sahida Fakir, originally from Swarupnagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, was picked up from a market in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, on July 18 when she had gone to buy groceries for dinner.
Her husband and two sons remain in India. Their younger son is a Class 7 student, while their elder son works as a mobile phone repair technician.
Two months ago, Maktoob reported that Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organisation, had moved the Calcutta High Court alleging Sahida’s illegal arrest, arbitrary detention and unlawful branding as a “Bangladeshi”, despite the existence of multiple government records establishing her Indian citizenship.
Her husband, Jumman Fakir, said the family produced her birth certificate, school certificate, her parents’ land deed and other identity documents at a detention centre in Chembur, but were informed three days later that she had been sent to Bangladesh.
“Both our families are from Swarupnagar. We are Indian citizens and have lived in Mumbai for two decades without facing anything like this before,” Indian Express quoted Jumman as saying.
According to the family, Sahida was taken to Assam and pushed across the border into Bangladesh along with a group of people. She is currently staying with a family in Satkhira, Bangladesh, after walking for eight hours through muddy fields following her alleged deportation.
“They pushed me into Bangladesh from the Assam border around 1 am. I walked for eight hours through muddy fields to reach the main road,” Sahida said to Indian Express over the phone from Satkhira.
She said residents provided her with food, clothes and shelter. “I am an Indian citizen and just want to return home. My son is in Class 7; who will look after him?” she said.
I know here's one place where I allow opinions and rhetoric that most would consider "strong", "radical" or even "problematic" because I don't care about these hollow labels if it is for the sake of Allah and ghayrah for the muslims. However you still need to be careful about breaking reddit's ToS leading to reddit flagging your comments/posts and banning your accounts permanently.
So keep the following points in mind while making your next unconventional comment on the subreddit or elsewhere:
- Be discreet enough or use vague unclear language which reddit's AI filter cannot detect.
- Use no slurs at all and definitely do not make your comments/posts have a threatening message.
- Easiest way to get banned is using personal insults when replying to comments due to "Harassment", so avoid that.
- Make your comments sound more like information dumping than opinion sharing if you think it is beyond controversial.
- Adopt third person narrative mode when you're trying to make an unpopular statement.
- Absolutely do not textualize your intentions that could trigger people.
Good brothers like u/Fit_Emotion_8711 keep getting banned for silly reasons which is why I felt the need to make this post. Please make sure you follow it next time ya ikhwa.
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله
maktoobmedia A 24-year-old Muslim driver, identified as Azeem, died at Delhi's Lok Nayak Hospital on August 4, five days after he was allegedly assaulted following a road accident involving a vehicle carrying Kanwar pilgrims in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district.
Azeem’s family has alleged that he was beaten by a group of men after his pickup truck collided with an auto carrying Kanwariyas near the Garh toll plaza on July 31.
Police, however, have registered cases based on complaints from both sides, and the circumstances surrounding the assault and Azeem's subsequent death remain under investigation.
According to Azeem's father, Intezar Hussain, the accident took place when the pickup being driven by Azeem collided with an auto carrying Kanwariyas. Following the collision, the auto driver and several passengers allegedly attacked Azeem. After assaulting him, the mob left him at the spot of the incident.
Azeem was initially taken to a local hospital for treatment by the police. He was later referred to Meerut and subsequently shifted to the Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi, where he remained under treatment for around five days before he died on August 4.
In a complaint filed with the police, Azeem's father alleged that the auto driver and other passengers attacked his son following the collision.
The FIR registered at Garh Mukteshwar police station names auto driver Farman, along with Manish, Ankit, Lokesh and Shivam, all residents of Bajheda Khurd village, along with two unidentified persons.
The case has been registered under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) relating to rioting, voluntarily causing hurt and attempt to murder.
via Maktoob Media
I am genuinely baffled how this sub is not flooded by posts on the killings of Kashmiris by the Pakistani regime.
I understand there might be some ambiguity as to the actual state of affairs as we do have to filter all information given the Internet blackout and state propaganda (identical to Indian propaganda, cover ups, suppresion and downplaying of incidents for this side of the border) but the least we could do is speak up about what you're seeing with your own eyes.
These are people, our own people in the videos. Who are they if they're not being hunted down? What are they upto in the middle of the night it there's no unrest?
Why this insular sympathy?
We proclaim Indepence and reunification as our dream, and this is who you want to be one again with? For whom we don't spare our minds and time? How honest are we?
Genuinely appalled by my own apathy, nevermind you people.
A 29-year-old man died following alleged custodial torture in Kerala's Kollam district, with his family alleging that he was brutally assaulted by police after being taken into custody, suffering fractured ribs that later led to a severe lung infection.
Siyad, a private bus driver from Kundara, died on Saturday while undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram after sustaining fractured ribs and a severe lung infection.
His family has alleged that the injuries were inflicted during police custody, while the case is being investigated by the District Crime Branch.
Police detained him on the night of June 16 following a complaint that a neighbouring 13-year-old boy was missing.
He was released the next morning after the boy returned home.
The complainant, whose missing person complaint led to Siyad being taken into custody by the Kundara police, alleged that Civil Police Officer (CPO) Sreejith began assaulting him immediately after he was made to board the police jeep.
"I was inside the jeep when Siyad was beaten. He cried out in pain while he was being assaulted," she alleged.
Siyad's parents, Badrudeen and Arifa Beevi, also alleged that their son had told them he was brutally beaten inside the police vehicle after being mistaken for someone else.
According to the family, Siyad had no prior health issues but was unable to even drink water for eight days following the alleged assault.
The family said doctors at Kollam District Hospital found that Siyad had suffered fractured ribs after an X-ray was taken for chest pain.
They alleged that he later developed a severe lung infection linked to the injuries and was shifted to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital, where he died while on ventilator support.
Describing Siyad as the sole breadwinner of the family with no criminal antecedents, his relatives demanded the dismissal and prosecution of the police personnel allegedly involved.
They also said they would submit complaints to Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan and the Director General of Police seeking a comprehensive investigation.
-via Maktoob Media
اَلسَلامُ عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةُ اَللهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ
So there is this guy who's 20, i train him on certain days, and this guy asks islamic doubts every time he gets one. So after training is over, every time there's at least a 20-minute islamic discussion, he has started practising his deen sincerely and الحمد لله whenever he has something to asks them.
He recently asked certain things regarding the urge to look at women and the desire to love and feel emotionally connected to a girl.
Now, ever since he started to practice islam, he has this idea that because he gets these urges, it makes him a bad muslim. Tbh, this is not the first time a guy has come to me seeking advice about this matter. In fact, 12 years ago, when i started taking my deen seriously, i had the same doubt and took advice from an aalim.
Now, to address this issue, first, we must understand what it is to be human. We humans are a creation that is absolutely weak, we can never reach ultra perfection, and we can never not make mistakes. We are bound to make mistakes, and we are bound to be weak.
Lust, love, sadness, anger, happiness, etc. all these things are what make us normal humans. Allah orders us humans to control our anger, not to be overly sad, dont act on your lust, and dont love anything more than allah.
Those orders are given to us by allah because we are bound to feel those, but allah expects us to not act upon them in a way that's not permissible. I mean, why would allah ask us to control our anger if we are never supposed to feel anger or why would allah order us to lower our gaze if we are never supposed to get the urge to look?
The creation, which does not have lust, happiness, sadness, anger, etc, is angels. Angels are different, and a human can never be an angel no matter how close we are towards our deen. It's IMPOSSIBLE.
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Adam (a) was the first human to get created. He was created in jannah, and he interacted with Allah and the angels. What more can a person need more than that?
But he was not fulfilled. He literally could have hanged out with the angels for a chai, talked to allah whenever he wanted but there was a void in him, and to fill that void allah created the 2nd human hawwa (a) as adam's (a) wife. Allah did not give him a mother, father, sibling, friend, etc he gave him a wife.
That fact is enough for us to understand, no matter what, we humans desire, a partner. It's how we are created, we cant escape this. We want to feel love, and we have lust, no matter how religious we get.
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Now, the urge for us to look at the opposite gender is normal. That's actually a sign that you are healthy. The urge to feel loved, connected, and have lust is all 100% normal. Just because i pray tahajjut, farls, recite quran, and get very close to allah does not mean my natural human desires will disappear.
No, in fact, it might only increase our desires. But what happens here is, when we get closer to allah, we automatically lower our gaze despite having the urge, we won't act on our lust eventho we may have urges, etc.
We are not angels, but when we lower our gaze and control ourselves for allah's sake, we are actually better than angels in allah's sight. Life is about tests when you walk through the park, and you see there's a woman/man coming towards you. At that moment, it's a test for you to see if you are going to lower your gaze or you're going to scan top to bottom like a QR code scanner.
If we pass that test, we will be rewarded, and our ibadah gets sweeter الحمد لله.
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So for those who are starting to practice your deen, just because you have human desires doesn't make you a bad muslim, it's all normal and dont blame yourself and give up on praying.
What makes you a bad muslim is if you act on those urges, and what makes you a wonderful muslim is that you control those urges and keep them to yourself until you are married.
When we control these urges, i promise you barakah will be filled, our iman gets stronger, our ibadah gets sweeter and most important thing, the bond we will have with our spouse will increase and halal intimacy will be much much sweeter (not married, got to know this through married people).
May allah grant us a proper understanding of our deen, and may he protect us from what's harmful for us in this dunya and akirah