In my early years when i had to attend Quran school i found that i didnt believe in what the other kids of the school regarded as the truth. Also i found that i fitted in more with the non-islamic kids of my regular school. The rituals of praying and ramadan etc. seemed to me a weird form of obeying something i than didnt believe in. Once studying at the university i decided what was left in me of any belief to drop it off.

My personal opinion is that with reasoning one can live his life perfectly without having to believe in an some upper form called God. I believe that religion was something our ancestors hung on to to explain the unexplainable that was happening around them. Just as animists did. Now with organized religion there is a person who has some leadership qualities and decides to form a group of followers based on HIS explanation of the world around him. If we add to that states of illusion or other forms of meditations we can very quick make the sum of organized religion. Of course there has been Mohammed, a Jezus etc. but they were just leaders of an organized form of religion they founded. Hence all religion exists of invented rules in some way.

The scary thing i see around me is that European youngsters who descended from immigrated moslims, instead of accepting maybe a way of exercising ones religion more open-minded or being more criticized about it, they found an instrument in the very strict wahabi religion of the Middle East. That sort of Islam which doesnt allow anyone to think for himself. I live much freely now without religion.