Thread by @d_white_rabbit

My favourite ExMuslim @YasMohammedxx has a message for you. Share your stories of #Islamotrauma for the world to see why our fear of Islam is rational and rooted in our subjugation, oppression and abuse. #LetUsTalk

As an #ExMuslim, I can never go back to Iran because the government could put me in jail indefinitely or hang me for the simply saying I don’t believe in Islam or God. There’s no going back on your religion in Iran. You’re born a Muslim, you die a Muslim. Literally. #Islamotrauma

I can’t dance or sing under the Islamic regime. I can’t be a judge or the president. I can’t get a divorce, except in extremely dire situations, and I can’t have 2 husbands but my husband can have 4 permanent wives and 99 temporary ones. #Islamotrauma

My father, uncle, brother, male guardian can stop me from getting an education, a job or a passport. They can kill me and say I dishonoured them and get very little to no punishment at all. #Islamotrauma #honourkilling

My witness in court is worth half a man. My inheritance is half my brother’s. My mom’s 1/8th mine and 1/16th her own son’s. My life is worth half a man. The punishment for killing me is half of killing a man. #Islamotrauma

There’s no abortion or bodily autonomy in the Islamic Republic and under Islam. My body is a ‘tilth’ for men to plough and impregnate to populate the Muslim world. I have no control over my own body as it doesn’t belong to me. #Islamotrauma

My father could marry me off as a child. The younger, the better according to Islam. Girls reach puberty at 9 y/o and the advice is that the marriage be consummated then but the husband can satisfy his needs however he likes even with infant brides. #Islamotrauma #GirlsNotBrides

My grandma married off my 3 aunts all before they were 15. They had children by their 16th birthday. I talk to my grandma twice a year. She still tells me that instead of reading all those books, I should have been a grandma by now! My life has no meaning otherwise. #Islamotrauma

I had to cover my hair when I turned 7 if I wanted to go to school. I had to cover my hair and body whenever I left the house after I turned 9. That was 3rd grade. My hair and body was too tempting for men to control themselves so I had to cover up. #Islamotrauma

I grew up in a gender apartheid. I had to bend to survive. I’ve spent years unlearning a lot of beliefs/ ideas/ dearly held traditions. I’m not strong or resilient. I’m bitter, angry and tired. I am who I am despite myself and my experiences and not because of them. #Islamotrauma

Don’t romanticize the trauma, whether individual or collective, that we’ve been through. I resent having had to survive my whole life, having had to survive my loved ones’ abusive behaviour, having had to survive my society and the religion I was born into. #Islamotrauma

I can’t still talk about my assault, I was 11 y/o, my forced ‘love’ marriage, my divorce, and years of abuse, subjugation, trauma that I have had to survive whether in the Islamic Republic or as the aftermath of leaving Iran/Islam easily and freely. #Islamotrauma

I am lucky to be here. I survived. A lot of us don’t. I know how privileged I am. But I will have to spend the rest of my life fighting and unbending and putting myself back together because of Islam and Muslims. My fear is valid and rational. #Islamotrauma #LetUsTalk

This last one goes to all the ones who didn’t survive. Rest in peace. #Islamotrauma
#MahsaAmini
#WomanLifeFreedom