On a different forum I posted a "Can a Muslim be a good American" thread this was one very notable response.
I was a Muslim for 12 years until I found Christ. Islam is a the political belief that expresses world dominance by either force or sheer growth of numbers which places them from a minority to a majority group within a society. There is no tolerance for other political/theological beliefs. The sharia law is everything opposite of human rights. There is no such thing as "moderate Islamist". All Muslims believe that all societies must eventually submit to Islam, whether it be through jihad or self preservation.
I'm just keeping it real. Anyone tells you different is full of malarkey.
I was baptized catholic and raised in a Christian home. Like so many black Americans in this country I was influenced by people who were incarcerated and brought Islam to the communities. It was new and different and promising ( as lies often are). I took my shahada ( proclamation) against my parents’ permission when I was 18 years old. I was brainwashed, lied to, and taught to despise the very country I was native to. At 24 I decided to leave the "community" and search for answers. I returned to reading the bible and started questioning what was in the Quran. I still attended worship in the masjid. One day I was approached by several of my "brothers" and was warned to either come back ( I was told I was slipping) or suffer retaliation. Turning your back on Islam is punishable by death, but I was in America, right? I renounced Islam at the age of 28, and never looked back. I'm 49 now. A couple of months after confiding in a friend that I renounced the " religion", I ran into my former brothers on the public el train while going to work. They told me if it wasn't for the crowded train that they would cut my f****ing head off! For the first time in my young life I broke the law by carrying an unregistered gun for my protection. One of the s.o.b.'s found out where I lived and knocked on my door. I greeted him with a walther 380 in his face. Nothing happened after that but idle threats. Later that same year I became on of Philly's finest. Islam is not a fad. It is a threat to not only this country but the whole world,
I'm glad I live in a country where forums such as this one can exist. Let's pray it stays that way.