List of well known people who left Islam
List of well known people who left Islam
This is just a small list of people and names that are publicly known.
How about the usual common not so well known people ?..and those who are silently doing it ?
They could be in millions.!!
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From Islam to Christian
Mehmet Ali Agca - Turkish ultra-nationalist assassin, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981.
In early 2009, Agca renounced Islam in prison and announced his intention to convert to the Catholic faith upon release.
Magdi Allam - Italy's most famous Islamic affairs journalist.
Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Former Egyptian Muslim sheikh.
Hussain Andaryas - Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist.
Josephine Bakhita - Roman Catholic saint from Darfur, Sudan.
Fathima Rifqa Bary - American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew international attention in 2009 when
she ran away from home and claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity.
Sarah Balabagan - Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates during 1994 - 96.
Abo of Tiflis - Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Don Juan of Persia - Late 16th and early 17th century figure in Iran and Spain.
Utameshgaray of Kazan - Khan of Kazan Khanate.
Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan - Last khan of Kazan Khanate.
Sayed Borhan khan - Khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679.
Simeon Bekbulatovich - Khan of Qasim Khanate.
The Sibirsky family - The foremost of many Genghisid (Shaybanid) noble families formerly living in Russia.
Maria Temrjukovna - Circassian princess, and second wife to Ivan IV of Russia who was born in a
Muslim upbringing, and baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church on August 21 1561.
The Shihab family - Prominent Lebanese noble family. The family originally belonged to Sunni Islam
and converted to Christianity at the end of the 18th century.
Jacob Frank - 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation
of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also of King David. Frank publicly converted
to Islam in 1757 and later to Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself
as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism now referred to as Frankism.
Walid Shoebat - American author and former member of the PLO.
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti - Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990.
Ibrahim Ben Ali - Soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin.
Nonie Darwish - Egyptian-American writer and public speaker.
Mehdi Dibaj - Iranian pastor and Christian activist.
Eldridge Cleaver - Author, prominent American civil rights leader, and key member of the
Black Panther Party. He converted to Mormonism.
Ghorban Tourani - Former Iranian Sunni Muslim who became a Christian minister. Following multiple
murder threats , he was abducted and murdered on November 22, 2005.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Republic Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Patrick Sookhdeo - British Anglican canon
Mark A. Gabriel- Egyptian Islamic scholar and writer
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.
Alexander Kazembek - Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of Azeri origin .
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.
Qadry Ismail - Former American football player.
Raghib Ismail - Former American football player.
Tunch Ilkin - Former American football player.
Lina Joy - Malaysian convert to Christianity. The desire to have her conversion recognized was the
subject of a court case in Malaysia.
Carlos Menem - Former President of Argentina. Raised a Muslim but converted to Roman Catholicism,
the official religion of Argentina, due to his political aspirations.
Marina Nemat - Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government.
Born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity.
George Weah - Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Momolu Dukuly - Liberian foreign minister.
Nazli Sabri - Queen consort of Egypt.
Tuğçe Kazaz - Turkish model who was Miss Turkey in 2001.
Begum Samru - Powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh.
Abdul Rahman - Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure.
Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Sheikh Deen Muhammad - British Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who introduced shampooing
and the Indian take-away curry house restaurant in Britain, and was the first Indian to have written a book
in the English language.
Kitty Kirkpatrick - Daughter of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British Resident in Hyderabad and Khair-un-Nissa,
a Hyderabadi noblewoman.
Emily Ruete - (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of Zanzibar and Oman.
Emir Kusturica - Bosnian filmmaker and actor.
Daniel Ali- Iraqi Kurdish Christian author, speaker and Islamic scholar; evangelizes in Catholic,
Protestant and Messianic Jewish circles.
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military
expedition into Central Asia.
Umar ibn Hafsun - Leader of anti-Ummayad dynasty forces in southern Iberia. Hafsun converted to
Christianity with his sons and ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the
castle Bobastro as his residence.
Casilda of Toledo - Saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo - Christian martyrs and confessors who were put to death during the
reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
Paul Mulla - Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.
Hamid Pourmand - Former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the Jama'at-e Rabbani, the Iranian
branch of the Assemblies of God church in Iran.
Donald Fareed - Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross- Counter-terrorism expert and attorney (from Judaism to Islam to Christianity).
Ibrahim Abdullah - American former PLO terrorist.
Zachariah Anani - Former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter
Malika Oufkir - Author, activist and former prisoner of the Moroccan Royal Family.
Ruffa Gutierrez - Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)
Fadhma Aït Mansour - Mother of French writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.
Imad ud-din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic translator.
Dr. Nur Luke - Uyghur Bible translator.
Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal - Two Turkish Christian converts who went on trial in 2006, on charges
of "allegedly insulting 'Turkishness' and inciting religious hatred against Islam".
Mohammed Hegazy - First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his
conversion from the Egyptian Government.
Francis Bok - Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to
his Christian faith.
Josef Mässrur - (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese Turkestan with the Mission Union of Sweden.
Gulshan Esther - Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.
Constantine the African - Baghdad-educated Muslim who died in 1087 as a Christian monk at Monte Cassino.
Estevanico - Berber originally from Morocco and one of the early explorers of the Southwestern United States.
Abraham of Bulgaria - Martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. Adolphus - Christian martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II,
Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
Nasir Siddiki - Canadian evangelist, author, and business consultant.
Matthew Ashimolowo - Nigerian-born British pastor and evangelist.
Michał Czajkowski - Polish-Cossack writer and political emigre who worked both for the resurrection of
Poland and the reestablishment of a Cossack Ukraine.
Skanderbeg - Albanian monarch and military leader. Skanderbeg converted to Islam from Christianity
but reverted back to Christianity later in life.
Amir Sjarifuddin - Indonesian socialist leader who later became the second prime minister of Indonesia
during its National Revolution.
Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni - President of Benin.
Al-Mu'eiyyad - Abbasid prince and third son of Abbasid caliph, Al-Mutawakkil. He was converted to
Christianity along with his three confidants by St. Theodore of Edessa, accepting the name "John"
upon baptism.
Aben Humeya - (born Fernando de Valor) Morisco Chief who was crowned the Emir of Andalusia
by his followers and led the Morisco Revolt against Philip II of Spain.
Sheikh Ahmed Barzani - Head of Barzani Tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan and older brother of Mustafa Barzani,
Kurdish nationalist leader. He announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931.
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.
Shams Pahlavi - Iranian princess and the elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
Ramzi Yousef - Al Qaeda member and the main participant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Saye Zerbo - President of the republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
Zaida of Seville - Refugee Andalusian muslim princess who was a mistress and then perhaps queen
of Alfonso VI of Castile.
How about the usual common not so well known people ?..and those who are silently doing it ?
They could be in millions.!!
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From Islam to Christian
Mehmet Ali Agca - Turkish ultra-nationalist assassin, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981.
In early 2009, Agca renounced Islam in prison and announced his intention to convert to the Catholic faith upon release.
Magdi Allam - Italy's most famous Islamic affairs journalist.
Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Former Egyptian Muslim sheikh.
Hussain Andaryas - Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist.
Josephine Bakhita - Roman Catholic saint from Darfur, Sudan.
Fathima Rifqa Bary - American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew international attention in 2009 when
she ran away from home and claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity.
Sarah Balabagan - Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates during 1994 - 96.
Abo of Tiflis - Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Don Juan of Persia - Late 16th and early 17th century figure in Iran and Spain.
Utameshgaray of Kazan - Khan of Kazan Khanate.
Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan - Last khan of Kazan Khanate.
Sayed Borhan khan - Khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679.
Simeon Bekbulatovich - Khan of Qasim Khanate.
The Sibirsky family - The foremost of many Genghisid (Shaybanid) noble families formerly living in Russia.
Maria Temrjukovna - Circassian princess, and second wife to Ivan IV of Russia who was born in a
Muslim upbringing, and baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church on August 21 1561.
The Shihab family - Prominent Lebanese noble family. The family originally belonged to Sunni Islam
and converted to Christianity at the end of the 18th century.
Jacob Frank - 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation
of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also of King David. Frank publicly converted
to Islam in 1757 and later to Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself
as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism now referred to as Frankism.
Walid Shoebat - American author and former member of the PLO.
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti - Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990.
Ibrahim Ben Ali - Soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin.
Nonie Darwish - Egyptian-American writer and public speaker.
Mehdi Dibaj - Iranian pastor and Christian activist.
Eldridge Cleaver - Author, prominent American civil rights leader, and key member of the
Black Panther Party. He converted to Mormonism.
Ghorban Tourani - Former Iranian Sunni Muslim who became a Christian minister. Following multiple
murder threats , he was abducted and murdered on November 22, 2005.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Republic Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Patrick Sookhdeo - British Anglican canon
Mark A. Gabriel- Egyptian Islamic scholar and writer
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.
Alexander Kazembek - Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of Azeri origin .
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.
Qadry Ismail - Former American football player.
Raghib Ismail - Former American football player.
Tunch Ilkin - Former American football player.
Lina Joy - Malaysian convert to Christianity. The desire to have her conversion recognized was the
subject of a court case in Malaysia.
Carlos Menem - Former President of Argentina. Raised a Muslim but converted to Roman Catholicism,
the official religion of Argentina, due to his political aspirations.
Marina Nemat - Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government.
Born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity.
George Weah - Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Momolu Dukuly - Liberian foreign minister.
Nazli Sabri - Queen consort of Egypt.
Tuğçe Kazaz - Turkish model who was Miss Turkey in 2001.
Begum Samru - Powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh.
Abdul Rahman - Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure.
Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).
Sheikh Deen Muhammad - British Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who introduced shampooing
and the Indian take-away curry house restaurant in Britain, and was the first Indian to have written a book
in the English language.
Kitty Kirkpatrick - Daughter of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British Resident in Hyderabad and Khair-un-Nissa,
a Hyderabadi noblewoman.
Emily Ruete - (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of Zanzibar and Oman.
Emir Kusturica - Bosnian filmmaker and actor.
Daniel Ali- Iraqi Kurdish Christian author, speaker and Islamic scholar; evangelizes in Catholic,
Protestant and Messianic Jewish circles.
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military
expedition into Central Asia.
Umar ibn Hafsun - Leader of anti-Ummayad dynasty forces in southern Iberia. Hafsun converted to
Christianity with his sons and ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the
castle Bobastro as his residence.
Casilda of Toledo - Saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo - Christian martyrs and confessors who were put to death during the
reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
Paul Mulla - Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.
Hamid Pourmand - Former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the Jama'at-e Rabbani, the Iranian
branch of the Assemblies of God church in Iran.
Donald Fareed - Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross- Counter-terrorism expert and attorney (from Judaism to Islam to Christianity).
Ibrahim Abdullah - American former PLO terrorist.
Zachariah Anani - Former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter
Malika Oufkir - Author, activist and former prisoner of the Moroccan Royal Family.
Ruffa Gutierrez - Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)
Fadhma Aït Mansour - Mother of French writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.
Imad ud-din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic translator.
Dr. Nur Luke - Uyghur Bible translator.
Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal - Two Turkish Christian converts who went on trial in 2006, on charges
of "allegedly insulting 'Turkishness' and inciting religious hatred against Islam".
Mohammed Hegazy - First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his
conversion from the Egyptian Government.
Francis Bok - Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to
his Christian faith.
Josef Mässrur - (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese Turkestan with the Mission Union of Sweden.
Gulshan Esther - Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.
Constantine the African - Baghdad-educated Muslim who died in 1087 as a Christian monk at Monte Cassino.
Estevanico - Berber originally from Morocco and one of the early explorers of the Southwestern United States.
Abraham of Bulgaria - Martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. Adolphus - Christian martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II,
Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.
Nasir Siddiki - Canadian evangelist, author, and business consultant.
Matthew Ashimolowo - Nigerian-born British pastor and evangelist.
Michał Czajkowski - Polish-Cossack writer and political emigre who worked both for the resurrection of
Poland and the reestablishment of a Cossack Ukraine.
Skanderbeg - Albanian monarch and military leader. Skanderbeg converted to Islam from Christianity
but reverted back to Christianity later in life.
Amir Sjarifuddin - Indonesian socialist leader who later became the second prime minister of Indonesia
during its National Revolution.
Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni - President of Benin.
Al-Mu'eiyyad - Abbasid prince and third son of Abbasid caliph, Al-Mutawakkil. He was converted to
Christianity along with his three confidants by St. Theodore of Edessa, accepting the name "John"
upon baptism.
Aben Humeya - (born Fernando de Valor) Morisco Chief who was crowned the Emir of Andalusia
by his followers and led the Morisco Revolt against Philip II of Spain.
Sheikh Ahmed Barzani - Head of Barzani Tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan and older brother of Mustafa Barzani,
Kurdish nationalist leader. He announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931.
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.
Shams Pahlavi - Iranian princess and the elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
Ramzi Yousef - Al Qaeda member and the main participant in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Saye Zerbo - President of the republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
Zaida of Seville - Refugee Andalusian muslim princess who was a mistress and then perhaps queen
of Alfonso VI of Castile.
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From Islam to Atheists
* Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali-born Dutch feminist, writer, and politician.
* Ismael Adham - Egyptian writer and philosopher.
* Loubna Berrada - Dutch liberal politician and former member of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.
* Ali Soilih - Comorian socialist revolutionary and president of the Comoros.
* Aziz Nesin - Popular Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
* Zackie Achmat - South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign.
* Humayun Azad - Bangladeshi writer and scholar.
* Turan Dursun - Turkish writer and Islamic scholar. He was once a Turkish mufti and later authored
many books critical of Islam.
* Ehsan Jami - Dutch politician and founder of the Dutch Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.
* Enver Hoxha - Communist dictator who declared Albania the first atheist state, and who has been
identified as an "arch-atheist.
* As'ad Abu Khalil - Lebanese professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.
He describes himself as an "atheist secularist".
* Al-Ma'arri - Blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer.
* Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for
assumed heresy by the Mughal emperor, Aurungzebe. Sarmad renounced Judaism, briefly
converting to Islam and then Hinduism. He later denounced all religions and rejected belief in god.
* Lounès Matoub - Algerian Berber Kabyle singer.
* Barack Obama, Sr. - Kenyan economist and father of President Barack Obama.
* Ramiz Alia - Albanian communist leader and former president of Albania.
* Salman Rushdie - British-Indian novelist and essayist.
* Hassan Bahara – Moroccan-Dutch writer.
* Hafid Bouazza - Moroccan-Dutch writer.
* Hossein Derakhshan - Iranian-Canadian journalist and weblogger.
* Ismail Kadare - World-renowned Albanian writer.
* Omar Sharif - Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films.
He converted from Christianity to Islam in 1955.
* Maryam Namazie - Iranian communist, political activist and leader of the British apostate-organization
"Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain"
* Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature and is regarded as
one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature.
* Anwar Shaikh - British author of Pakistani descent.
* Zohra Sehgal - Indian actress who has appeared in several Hindi and English language films.
* Mirza Fatali Akhundov - 19th century Azerbaijani playwright and philosopher.
* Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi author, feminist, human rights activist and secular humanist.
* Parvin Darabi- Iranian born American activist, writer and woman's rights activist.
* Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali-born Dutch feminist, writer, and politician.
* Ismael Adham - Egyptian writer and philosopher.
* Loubna Berrada - Dutch liberal politician and former member of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.
* Ali Soilih - Comorian socialist revolutionary and president of the Comoros.
* Aziz Nesin - Popular Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
* Zackie Achmat - South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the Treatment Action Campaign.
* Humayun Azad - Bangladeshi writer and scholar.
* Turan Dursun - Turkish writer and Islamic scholar. He was once a Turkish mufti and later authored
many books critical of Islam.
* Ehsan Jami - Dutch politician and founder of the Dutch Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.
* Enver Hoxha - Communist dictator who declared Albania the first atheist state, and who has been
identified as an "arch-atheist.
* As'ad Abu Khalil - Lebanese professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus.
He describes himself as an "atheist secularist".
* Al-Ma'arri - Blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer.
* Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for
assumed heresy by the Mughal emperor, Aurungzebe. Sarmad renounced Judaism, briefly
converting to Islam and then Hinduism. He later denounced all religions and rejected belief in god.
* Lounès Matoub - Algerian Berber Kabyle singer.
* Barack Obama, Sr. - Kenyan economist and father of President Barack Obama.
* Ramiz Alia - Albanian communist leader and former president of Albania.
* Salman Rushdie - British-Indian novelist and essayist.
* Hassan Bahara – Moroccan-Dutch writer.
* Hafid Bouazza - Moroccan-Dutch writer.
* Hossein Derakhshan - Iranian-Canadian journalist and weblogger.
* Ismail Kadare - World-renowned Albanian writer.
* Omar Sharif - Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films.
He converted from Christianity to Islam in 1955.
* Maryam Namazie - Iranian communist, political activist and leader of the British apostate-organization
"Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain"
* Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature and is regarded as
one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature.
* Anwar Shaikh - British author of Pakistani descent.
* Zohra Sehgal - Indian actress who has appeared in several Hindi and English language films.
* Mirza Fatali Akhundov - 19th century Azerbaijani playwright and philosopher.
* Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi author, feminist, human rights activist and secular humanist.
* Parvin Darabi- Iranian born American activist, writer and woman's rights activist.
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From Islam to secular
* Seema Mustafa - Indian journalist, Political Editor and Delhi Bureau Chief of The Asian Age newspaper.
* Cenk Uygur - Main host of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks. He is an agnostic.
* Wafa Sultan - Syrian-born American psychiatrist and controversial critic of Islam.
She describes herself as a "Secular Humanist"
* Ibn Warraq - British Pakistani secularist author and founder of the Institute for the
Secularisation of Islamic Society
* Mina Ahadi - Iranian-born pacifist, founder of the German apostate-organization "Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime"
* Younus Shaikh - Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist, rationalist and free-thinker.
* Ibn al-Rawandi - early skeptic of Islam.
* Seema Mustafa - Indian journalist, Political Editor and Delhi Bureau Chief of The Asian Age newspaper.
* Cenk Uygur - Main host of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks. He is an agnostic.
* Wafa Sultan - Syrian-born American psychiatrist and controversial critic of Islam.
She describes herself as a "Secular Humanist"
* Ibn Warraq - British Pakistani secularist author and founder of the Institute for the
Secularisation of Islamic Society
* Mina Ahadi - Iranian-born pacifist, founder of the German apostate-organization "Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime"
* Younus Shaikh - Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist, rationalist and free-thinker.
* Ibn al-Rawandi - early skeptic of Islam.
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From Islam to Hindu
* Annapurna Devi - surbahar (bass sitar) player and music teacher in the North Indian classical tradition
* Anwar Shaikh - British author.
* Asha Gawli - (born Ayesha) Wife of Arun Gawli, notorious gangster turned politician from Mumbai, India.
* Bukka I - King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reverted to Hinduism.
* Harihara I - King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reverted to Hinduism.
* Haridas Thakura - Prominent Vaishnavite saint, instrumental in the early appearance and
spread of Hare Krishna movement.
* Netaji Palkar - Maratha noble and commander-in-chief of the army of Shivaji, 19 June 1676.
* Chander Mohan - Former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana State in India.
* Harilal Mohandas Gandhi - Son of Mahatma Gandhi. Upon converting to Islam he adopted the name
Abdullah Gandhi, but later reverted back to Hinduism.
* Hassan Palakkode - Malayali writer and Islamic scholar.
* Ifa Sudewi - Chief judge for the 2002 Bali bombing trials.
* Khushboo Sundar - Tamil movie actress.
* Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir - Indian film actress, on whose life story the film Zubeidaa was loosely based.
* Annapurna Devi - surbahar (bass sitar) player and music teacher in the North Indian classical tradition
* Anwar Shaikh - British author.
* Asha Gawli - (born Ayesha) Wife of Arun Gawli, notorious gangster turned politician from Mumbai, India.
* Bukka I - King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reverted to Hinduism.
* Harihara I - King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reverted to Hinduism.
* Haridas Thakura - Prominent Vaishnavite saint, instrumental in the early appearance and
spread of Hare Krishna movement.
* Netaji Palkar - Maratha noble and commander-in-chief of the army of Shivaji, 19 June 1676.
* Chander Mohan - Former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana State in India.
* Harilal Mohandas Gandhi - Son of Mahatma Gandhi. Upon converting to Islam he adopted the name
Abdullah Gandhi, but later reverted back to Hinduism.
* Hassan Palakkode - Malayali writer and Islamic scholar.
* Ifa Sudewi - Chief judge for the 2002 Bali bombing trials.
* Khushboo Sundar - Tamil movie actress.
* Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir - Indian film actress, on whose life story the film Zubeidaa was loosely based.
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Oh yes. We have all heard of them.
These are really "FAMOUS" people.

Oh yes. We have all heard of them.
These are really "FAMOUS" people.

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I wonder what life would have been like if you had had enough oxygen at birth.
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
Holy crap! I hate to laugh at joseph's expense, but I was drinking my sparkling water as I read this line and damn near choked because it went down my trachea. I'm done coughing now though.zimtor wrote:I wonder what life would have been like if you had had enough oxygen at birth.
Upward and onward in the fight against Islamic tyranny
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I still cannot stop laughingplanck wrote:Holy crap! I hate to laugh at joseph's expense, but I was drinking my sparkling water as I read this line and damn near choked because it went down my trachea. I'm done coughing now though.zimtor wrote:I wonder what life would have been like if you had had enough oxygen at birth.
“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”
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Right, I heard about this but it's nothing definite. This guy is a real seedy character and there's really no way of knowing if he's sincere.Mehmet Ali Agca - Turkish ultra-nationalist assassin, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981.
In early 2009, Agca renounced Islam in prison and announced his intention to convert to the Catholic faith upon release.
But aside from that, it's amazing to think that just about 29 years ago---a muslim man attempted to kill the pope at the Vatican. Imagine if that were to happen today--what an event. It would be the equivalent of a non-muslim trying to kill a caliph (if there was such a person). But just think of the ramifications.
And getting back to the converts from islam.
There's a very large persian community here in the US. They mostly live in LA and from what I hear, more and more of them actually practice christianity rather than shia islam. And you're right....there could be millions more but islam won't let them leave lest they be killed. It's like someone trying to escape East Germany.This is just a small list of people and names that are publicly known.
How about the usual common not so well known people ?..and those who are silently doing it ?
They could be in millions.!!
Upward and onward in the fight against Islamic tyranny
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
Me neither.expozIslam wrote:I still cannot stop laughingplanck wrote:Holy crap! I hate to laugh at joseph's expense, but I was drinking my sparkling water as I read this line and damn near choked because it went down my trachea. I'm done coughing now though.zimtor wrote:
I wonder what life would have been like if you had had enough oxygen at birth.
A very well known list and a laughing plank.

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Re: List of well known people who left Islam
This is a totally awesome thread!
I doubt there are many from Islam to Judaism. I think there are large numbers of Islam to Zoroastrianism because there are mass conversion ceremonies in Scandinavia a couple times a year.
I doubt there are many from Islam to Judaism. I think there are large numbers of Islam to Zoroastrianism because there are mass conversion ceremonies in Scandinavia a couple times a year.
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Re: List of well known people who left Islam
The point is clear.
even with all this threats in this life and warnings of catastrophic punishments
in the after life..Muslims are leaving the faith and taking up another.
Hence moving away from Judaism to Christian or vie versa is not
significant. Of for that matter from Christian to Buddhist or Agnostic etc.
These are choices allowed and permitted as free will in these religions.
Moving away from Islam to another is significant.
even with all this threats in this life and warnings of catastrophic punishments
in the after life..Muslims are leaving the faith and taking up another.
Hence moving away from Judaism to Christian or vie versa is not
significant. Of for that matter from Christian to Buddhist or Agnostic etc.
These are choices allowed and permitted as free will in these religions.
Moving away from Islam to another is significant.
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
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As I hinted above, these sort of reports by Atheists that muslims are leaving Islam are nothing but disinformation.
Its desperate propaganda.
American TV Networks like CNN, NBC, FOX, and others, all bring on their shows Americans and Canadians who convert to Islam. According to news reports there are thousand of people who became muslim every year.
See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3276" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yet these same TV channels have not managed to put on TV just ten people who left Islam to become Atheists.
I wonder why?
That should make you think about how many people must have abandoned the Koran.

As I hinted above, these sort of reports by Atheists that muslims are leaving Islam are nothing but disinformation.
Its desperate propaganda.
American TV Networks like CNN, NBC, FOX, and others, all bring on their shows Americans and Canadians who convert to Islam. According to news reports there are thousand of people who became muslim every year.
See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3276" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yet these same TV channels have not managed to put on TV just ten people who left Islam to become Atheists.
I wonder why?
That should make you think about how many people must have abandoned the Koran.

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Re: List of well known people who left Islam
The major TV networks do show people who convert from Islam to other religion.joseph wrote:-
As I hinted above, these sort of reports by Atheists that muslims are leaving Islam are nothing but disinformation.
Its desperate propaganda.
American TV Networks like CNN, NBC, FOX, and others, all bring on their shows Americans and Canadians who convert to Islam. According to news reports there are thousand of people who became muslim every year.
See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3276" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yet these same TV channels have not managed to put on TV just ten people who left Islam to become Atheists.
I wonder why?
That should make you think about how many people must have abandoned the Koran.
Eg: If there is some political news significance.
Example the son of Hamas leader who converted to Christian last year.
But these large nteworks like CNN and BBC etc have other much more important world news to cover
than repeat telecast some ordinary religious conversions news every day.
They got better and more important things to do.
It is a sheer waste of time explaining all this to a TROLL here like you.
The readers here have enough sense and intelligence to make their own objective opinions.
You are living proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.
Calling you stupid would be an insult to stupid people.
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
The point to note here is that not many are as brave as Father Zakaria Boutros. While converts to Islam (especially in Islamic countries) are accorded red carpets, given exclusive prime-time interviews on TV, given special rights and treatements and treated to various functions, muslim apostates just want to be left alone. Those who dare come forward, and I really salute them for their conviction, already make colorful list. It is sure death for them to be out in public.
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
here is a thread by always Kafir from the old forum about islamic converts
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17499
unlike other religion converting out of islam is not easy, because paedophile mohammed said, behead those who leave islam
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17499
unlike other religion converting out of islam is not easy, because paedophile mohammed said, behead those who leave islam
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Re: List of well known people who converts to Islam
Priests and missionaries
Spoiler! :
Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with thee unless thou follow their form of religion.
Say: "The Guidance of Allah,-that is the (only) Guidance." (2:120)
Say: "The Guidance of Allah,-that is the (only) Guidance." (2:120)
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
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This list by Zimtor is supposed to be a list of very famous people.
Here is another list provided by Zimtor:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4196" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Very famous indeed.
:lol1:
This list by Zimtor is supposed to be a list of very famous people.

Here is another list provided by Zimtor:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4196" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Very famous indeed.
:lol1:
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Re: List of well known people who left Islam
are you normal joseph or do you think your being funny?joseph wrote:-
This list by Zimtor is supposed to be a list of very famous people.
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Here is another list provided by Zimtor:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4196" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Very famous indeed.
:lol1:
Click to win $50,0000 
only 2% of KKK are radical, the rest are peaceful law abiding moderates
Islamic Football Team: Striker:Extremist; Defender: Moderate One; Goallie :Leftist

only 2% of KKK are radical, the rest are peaceful law abiding moderates
Islamic Football Team: Striker:Extremist; Defender: Moderate One; Goallie :Leftist
Re: List of well known people who left Islam
What does a funny guy have to do with being normal ?Centaur wrote:
are you normal joseph or do you think your being funny?
Did you know that disabled people can be funny too.

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