My brother is a very simple man. He’s married, with a one-year-old child. He lives in Jordan, and like the majority of Jordanians, he struggles financially.
Last year, he found a relatively good job. He was happy. Two months ago, he and his wife were thinking about buying an apartment.
Last month, my brother was fired from his job.
Do you know why?
His boss asked him: “Do you fast?” My brother said no.
Even though my brother was very respectful and never ate or smoked during the day, the fact that he wasn’t fasting ramadan was enough to get him fired.
The owner told him, verbatim: “I am a man trying to apply sharia in this company, and you not fasting deliberately for no reason makes you an infidel. If I tolerate you, Allah will not bless my business.”
Last month was Ramadan, and my brother hasn’t been fasting Ramadan for 14 years. He didn’t want to lie to his boss, and his honesty got him fired.
Islam is a religion based in fear. Worship in Islam doesn’t stem from reverence of allah, but fear.
Praying, fasting, and all the rituals are bribes Muslims pay to avoid allah’s punishment.
What a weak religion that forces people to become hypocrites, a religion that cares about appearances but never the substance, a religion that makes people cruel, monsters, turns people into terrorists under the threat of hellfire in the afterlife or suffering and curses in this life.
