The ‘Young Woman’ in this dialogue lives in the West. She’s in her mid-20s. She stopped believing in Ahmadiyyat (and Islam generally) several years ago. She just hasn’t formally resigned from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community—yet. Her parents want to keep her apostasy quiet to save face.
On Purpose and Values after Religion and the Jama’at
This is a guest post from Q.Ahmad, a former Ahmadi Muslim. Here, he responds to a Reddit post penned by another former Ahmadi Muslim entitled, What are your values? The author suggests that one can initially feel lost thinking about the endless possibilities that have opened up to one’s self, after leaving religion. Subconsciously craving the authoritarian guardrails we grew up with and which gave us a feeling of supposed security.