How One Woman Left Islam to Campaign for Atheism

ALIYAH SALEEM’S JOURNEY FROM ISLAM TO AN ATHEIST CAMPAIGNER.

26 NOV 2016
POSTED BY ELISA MEYER

When Aliyah Saleem decided to go against everything she had been brought up to believe in, it was one of the hardest decisions she had to make. Aliyah decided to shed off her Islamic beliefs and embraced Atheism.

Although Aliyah was raised Muslim in Britain and studied for a year in Pakistan, said she felt isolated. Now, at 27, she has decided to devote herself to helping other apostates and campaigning for them. Her journey of conversion to atheism was not entirely smooth. "It was very hard to leave Islam, especially as my friends and family did not understand my decision," Aliyah said.

At the end of October she spoke in Plymouth, Englad to share her experience at a Humanist gathering. The major problem is tackling the discrimination which is universal affecting all people from different religious backgrounds who leave their faiths.

As she spoke about her experiences, she said, "I studied at fundamentalist schools from the age of about 11 and I was quite indoctrinated in a way that most Muslims in the UK are not. Science, reason, evolution, and feminism were factors in me coming to a place where I no longer could see Islam as the one true religion. I found that my understanding of Islam contradicted my newly emerging feminist outlook and I could not reconcile faith with it.”

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