You are not alone. As 'Ex Muslims of Pakistan,' let's share our stories, support each other, and advocate for the freedom to choose and leave #Islam without fear or discrimination. Together, we stand for freedom of conscience and the right to live authentically. Together, we can create a more inclusive and accepting society. ✊🏻🙂 #ExMuslims #ExMuslimsOfPakistan

Saudi Arabia does not guard Islam. It owns the brand and extracts the rent. Millions of Muslims are taught that the Kiswah covering the Kaaba is sacred, that touching it carries spiritual weight, and that disrespecting it is grave. Epstein files documents show pieces of that same covering, described in correspondence as having been touched by at least 10 million pilgrims, were shipped to Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 via contacts linked to Gulf elites and Saudi royal court circles. One message explicitly noted the cloth’s holy status while arranging delivery to a convicted sex offender. The same system that polices ordinary believers for blasphemy treated fragments of the Kaaba’s cloth as a networking item for the ultra rich and well connected. Hajj and Umrah are presented as pure acts of devotion. In practice they form a multi billion dollar industry that funnels roughly 10 to 15 billion dollars a year into the Saudi economy, a substantial share of non oil revenue. The Al Saud family controls access, infrastructure, quotas, and the narrative. Pilgrims pay. The regime profits and gains geopolitical leverage. Religious obligation is the marketing. In 2025 the kingdom executed a record 356 people. Most were for non lethal drug offenses. A large share were foreign nationals. At least two were executed for acts allegedly committed as minors. Journalist Turki al Jasser was killed after years of detention on treason and terrorism charges that rights groups tie to critical online writing about royal family corruption. Freedom House scores the country 9 out of 100, Not Free. Peaceful expression, including social media posts, is routinely criminalized under vague statutes protecting religious values and the image of the state. Trials lack basic due process. This is not a side effect of the system. It is the system. A cloth is declared untouchable. Rituals are placed beyond evidence or critique. Rulers claim their absolute monarchy, discretionary death sentences, and control of holy sites are expressions of divine will. Ordinary people can be imprisoned, silenced, or killed for words. Elites move freely through circles where sacred objects become status goods. The pattern is clear. Man made institutions, laws, and power structures are labeled God’s commands precisely so they cannot be questioned. Branding criticism as blasphemy protects the rulers, the revenue, and the monopoly. Obedience is redefined as virtue. The beneficiaries are the family that holds the sites, the oil, the courts, and the sword. Everyone else is told that doubt is sin and that human rights are secondary to unverified claims of divine authority. No monarch speaks for any god. No religious system deserves immunity from scrutiny. Human beings are real. The claims used to control them must answer to evidence, reason, and basic rights, or be rejected. #SaudiArabia

Congratulations, you made it to paradise! Your reward? Worshipping God forever. And by forever, we mean FOREVER. A trillion years down, infinity still ahead. No end, no change, just the same eternal routine. Imagine how mind numbingly boring that would be. At some point, even eternity starts sounding like a prison sentence.

شریف وہ ہے جسے موقع نہیں ملا۔