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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 10:46 am
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Sounds like a shithole to me. Why the hell would your parents settle there, given their mobility? It aint the only place in the world for jobs..and, iirc, the jobs there suck ass - and of course you have to deal with the local potentates......I'm just not seeing the allure.
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 11:36 am
I had hieroglyphic Egyptian, not modern Egyptian Arabic, in mind but am interested that you said the Egyptian Arabic is what Hollywood uses. I didn't know that. The foreign guest workers in the UAE, I take it they occupy a role similar to the Mexicans and Guatemalans who come to the USA, though we have birthright citizenship and can't deport someone who was born here of foreign parents.
What's curious is that al-Jazeera in Qatar is able to take up religion, sex, drugs, and so on although they don't go nearly as far with it as western studios do. I'm curious what causes the differences in attitudes. Is it something the kings prescribe, or is it tradition that binds even kings?
If they accept and like it in the UAE, then science fiction might be a good genre to encouch controversial themes in a futuristic, coded form that is usually inoffensive on its surface. Asimov and Heinlein did this in the USA back when you couldn't write frankly about sex.
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 11:52 am
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 3:17 pm
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UAE International: New to me; thanks for introducing it.
I assume the yacht went 12 miles out to international waters but came back too soon? It seems they could have wound down the party and sobered up before heading home. I dunno. Even in the USA they might have been arrested for boating while intoxicated; on small boats alcohol limits apply to the passengers as well as the helmsperson. A year in jail seems pretty excessive though it's not out of the range for alcohol offenses in many states here.
But hmmm...tax free? Rush Limbaugh and the Ayn Rand gang over here would love that. They don't like "big government." 
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May 11, 2015 at 4:53 pm
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm
I have no doubt it felt very real! I'm very glad to hear you are getting your head around it now I'm happy you came here to share your story.
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Way to go, Prince! Letting go if comforting illusions can be tough, but it's necessary
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May 11, 2015 at 5:56 pm
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(May 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: I have no doubt it felt very real! I'm very glad to hear you are getting your head around it now I'm happy you came here to share your story.
I am glad that I shared this story with you guys. I still got a bunch of crazy ideas for threads regarding religion and life experiences. I just want to get it out of my head and spread the word.
Recently, actually before joining AF.org. I was debating with theist on YouTube regarding Islam. I have started a crazy debate against Saudi Muslims, a whole week, I was receiving a hate messages & comments, threats of all kinds. They wanna torture me for criticizing Islam, and by exposing the true nature of their believe.
I have performed this YouTube experiment twice, one in English and the other in Arabic languages. I have received the same results everywhere, so i figured its time to join a well civilized society at AF.
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RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 7:12 pm
Keep poking the haughty bastards, lad. Let them blink and snarl at the sun in their impotency, and let the facade of civility continue to slip 
Just, you know, don't get killed.
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