it’s now two of my very good friends and partners who have had to leave twitter and essentially disappear off all socials for being exmuslim and fearing their safety because they’re families either found out or close to finding out

i’m a mixture of mostly worried, upset and angry. I worry so much because these individuals are like younger siblings to me, and I worry for their safety and well being as I do my own sibling.

im upset and angry because this is what Islam and religion has done to these poor young people. it’s made their own families value beliefs over their own children. it’s made these kids feel like they can’t be themselves because their families will disown and may even physically

harm them.
in the last two months we have lost two incredibly intelligent, brave, outspoken and funny individuals from the exmuslim community on here because they’ve had to deactivate for their own personal safety reasons. both from Islamic and non-Islamic countries.

this can happen to any exmuslim. so my message here is please for those of you who are able to speak safely as an exmuslim or as an ally please speak up and speak with us. because the only way we can stop things like this happening is to make ourselves as visible as possible.

and for those of you exmuslims, who are closeted please please please be careful on social media, your safety is the key priority here. if you need any help staying safe online please reach out, if I can’t help you directly I can pass you onto those who have experience with

online safety measures