Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in as a scientist and physician and the religion he was being raised in, Ali A. The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents' religion: disowned by their families, marginalized from their communities, imprisoned, or even sentenced to death by their governments. In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The Atheist Muslim recounts the journey that allows Rizvi to criticize Islam without demonizing his entire people. Rizvi as he finds himself caught between two narrative voices he cannot relate to: extreme Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry in a post-9/11 world.
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