Media Bias for Islam

[DeistPaladin]

Something weird about what you said. The vast majority of Muslims I encounter claim that I could never be a Muslim if I left the religion.

Christians say the exact same thing about ex-Christians. You have to love the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. "No true Muslim/Christian would ever leave Islam/Christianity so therefore you were never really a Muslim/Christian in the first place."

They have to do this. It's one thing to never be persuaded to join a religion. They can dismiss me because I've never really felt that "Holy Spirit" so I can't understand. Or they can say I'm too proud to serve God. Or they can say I'm having too much fun living a life of sin and rebellion. There are many ways to reject a skeptic who never believed. None of these work on someone like you because you were a believer at one point. They have to deny you were a believer because the only alternative is to try to understand why you turned away from the promise of Heaven and how you came to conclude it's all nonsense. On some level, they have to know where that path leads.

Islam ... is a pagan reformation.

Same thing for Christianity. The Jews had no concept of Hell and the idea of an intercessor like the Christian idea of Jesus is blasphemous to the god of the Old Testament. These things came from pagan sources.

Religion is like any other part of culture in that it absorbs traditions from neighbors or anything else it's exposed to. Evangelical faiths like Christianity or Islam that seek to acquire followers from all over the world will absorb the traditions of others. It makes their conversion easier.