Reddit mentions of The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam

>Why did you leave the faith?

In regards to the first question. Just a few links concerning why individuals have left Islam...

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4l4v9f/previously_casual_muslim_here_seeking_your/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4ai9gv/why_i_left_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4if6fg/someone_asked_me_what_were_the_reasons_that/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4o7tx1/what_made_you_leave_islambecome_an_atheist/d4amofx

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/g9jy3/so_why_is_it_that_you_left_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/mh66e/so_why_is_it_that_you_left_islam_part_2/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4jh3j9/why_did_you_leave_islam/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4m970a/seriousat_what_point_you_stop_believing/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4nu9rk/why_did_you_leave_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/1jvnyo/why_i_as_a_muslim_sold_myself_and_left_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/3sn113/discussion_why_are_you_an_exmuslim/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/3ncax0/ex_muslims_whats_your_main_reason_for_leaving/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/3qn2zl/why_did_you_leave_islam_question_from_a_muslim/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4jwyjm/what_exact_questionevent_made_you_leave_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/43yrr4/why_did_you_all_leave_islam/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4acim7/what_made_you_leave_islam_was_it_a_gradual/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/4k93qm/whats_your_story_exmuslim_help_needed/d3ekq99

> http://www.theexmuslim.com/2016/02/28/why-i-left-islam-and-chose-not-to-return/

> https://www.quora.com/How-did-it-feel-to-leave-Islam

> Why I left Islam?" - (By Ishina)

> "Why I left Islam & goodbye"
>https://youtu.be/ra9QQ58b7JY

> "7 reasons why I left Islam"
>https://youtu.be/ZZ6c66G99A4

> 'The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam' [1] - by Simon Cottee.
"The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious..."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24284240-the-apostates

> 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and freedom of belief in the Middle East' [1] - by Brian Whitaker.
"...In this ground-breaking book, journalist Brian Whitaker looks at the factors that lead them to abandon religion and the challenges they pose for governments and societies that claim to be organised according to the will of God..."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206783-arabs-without-god

"the most common reasons for disaffiliating from Islam among the respondents turned out to be the lack of logic in Islam, the fact that it contravenes science and its inhumane nature"


http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/article/download/4572/5002/


"Many respondents said their doubts centred on misgivings related to the intellectual architecture of Islam: that is, they suspected that Islam’s cognitive claims about how the world is or came to be are not true."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apostates-When-Muslims-Leave-Islam/dp/1849044694