My perspective on this

Submitted by Hamzah (United Arab Emirates), Dec 29, 2021 at 12:23

In the eyes of Allah, Islam is the only acceptable religion. Allah has put us through a test, this life is just a test. If you pass the test, you enter paradise, you fail it, God knows better. And let's assume that there is a person stranded on an island, and does not know anything about Islam and Allah still puts him in hell, that will be injustice! that is not going to happen! Allah will rather introduce him to Islam and then leave it upon him. There is an Islamic scholar named Yusuf Estes who is the perfect example of this. He once faced up, and asked God to show him the right way, and suddenly, he had a feeling in his chest that he should prostrate, he prostrated, and the rest is history.
Talking about ex-Muslims, it was their stupidity that they converted, they were fully introduced to Islam, they practiced it, and still left. This is not to steal their freedom of choice though, just to say that they are dunces. Now master dhimmi may bring up Bukhari 6922. Let me say to him that it is an unauthentic Hadith (unauthentic as in ambiguous), but even if it was authentic, at that time, there weren't any real common citizens, as Islam was in the minority, everyone was ready for Jihad when time came, and if anyone converted out of Islam, it basically meant that they were at war with it, and if someone is at war against you, you kill them (and dhimmi might say that "oh, but it was not that everyone was constantly at war", well, I'm talking about Quraysh, Yathrib, and tribes like Aws and Khazraj, or other atheist terrorists who would kill anyone who worshipped Hubal, or some other God).

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