You helped me to leave this religion and I can't wait to see more of your videos. May Allah bless you lol
5 years ago | 45
Wow, what a throwback. I totally forgot I was subbed to this channel. I also exited this phase of being interested in discussing atheism (happened around 2016 for me) so I totally understand what you’re saying here. Must be a difficult position to be in when you know that you could potentially help people but no longer have the same passion for the subject.
5 years ago | 56
Yaay! Time to binge watch TMA during Ramadan while hiding my apostasy from my family!
2 years ago (edited) | 17
Welcome back and good to see you again. Many people out there searching the truth and your vids helping them to find it. Thank you for sharing us your knowledge..
5 years ago | 7
Update for TMA fans, On the latest video of the youtube channel " The rationalizer ", i commented about masked arab, and coincidentally, Masked arab replied. He said He just logged in and the video was in his recommendations and the first comment he saw, was MINE. So he is alive and at the same time, he said he will return
2 years ago (edited) | 19
Where are you ? Your insight is very much needed in this time of our history
1 year ago | 5
I know it's selfish, but I honestly hope you'll be active again, I like your delivery and style over other ex-muslims and the reason for my atheism. But do what you enjoy more man. Oh and I really hope you're considering being a guest on Apostate Prophet newest show.
5 years ago (edited) | 8
take your time man. honestly, i was just a little bit worried something happened to you, so it's good to hear you're safe.
5 years ago | 5
Bro you helped me a lot i live my life freely and happy come back we miss you
4 years ago | 13
As a Muslim I like to learn! So this channel is one way for me to learn, hope you are ok.
4 years ago | 7
you were the final nail on the coffin of my Muslim life in 2018. I hope you would return with new contents. best wishes!
1 year ago | 7
Been 8 years since I watched a few of your videos on the Quran, need to finish them finally Glad your still here to
1 year ago | 1
I've had a several of your older videos pop up on my feed recently, I was literally wondering yesterday if something terrible had happened to you, so happy to hear you're ok. Hope to see more content soon 👍
5 years ago | 3
I honestly do miss the content you provide, glad to see you making a comeback.✌
5 years ago | 3
The Masked Arab
It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to update everyone on my MIA (Missing in action) status. Also, two days ago the channel turned 5 years old, wanted to time this message for then but bloody slow as usual!
First, quick answers to some FAQs:
Are you still alive? Yes.
Have you retired from the channel? No.
Do you still plan on producing videos? Yes.
Do you want me to set you up with my hot cousin? Yes.
I’ll try to keep this brief. When you first realise that your religion is false, you might go one of two ways, you might think “Oh! Interesting… Now I can enjoy the finer things in life and not hold a prejudice against people who have different beliefs or lifestyles,” or you may go down my route which was “I can’t believe I was told this lie for so long. People need to know the truth here and it may even help us reduce sectarianism and violence in our regions of the world if people can understand they’re fighting over nonsense.” - I fell into the second category following my apostasy, and to some extent, I still do.
However, after a few years, your interests and attention may shift into other areas, that's normal. My YouTube feed is no longer filled with videos discussing theology, I’ve rarely been logging in to my TMA social media accounts as I’ve preferred my own personal accounts where I see other stuff that keeps me entertained.
I think the only reason I wish to continue doing a few more videos for this channel is out of a feeling of obligation that what I do helps people. It helps Muslims open up their minds a little about the possibility that their faith may not be perfect and hence may not be something worth discriminating over others for, hampering your everyday life for, or worse harming others for.
It's also useful I'm told for those who are still passionate about fighting back against theology and wishing to be much more active in helping counter the incredibly well-funded spread of Islamic ideology, especially Salafism.
So I do have more videos I plan to do. I’ve already scripted the women and Islam series (finished scripting that over a year ago to be frank), but I’ve yet to translate it to other language, record audio, edit video etc.
I plan on doing one on the so-called mathematical miracle of the Quran, the signs of judgment day arguments and a few others too. Basically, if I feel there's something I can add to a particular topic that hasn't been highlighted very well already, I'd like to be able to produce a video on it.
The reason why I’m getting super slow in producing content is primarily a little laziness and also some disinterest. I can make excuses about my busy work schedule (which is still insane hours), my commitments to ensuring I can be a decent parent and put a lot of time in for the kids and their studies and hobbies. But ultimately, I find it hard to find the motivation to do certain parts of the video production process in my workflow.
I still enjoy the research part (which is great), I enjoy the scripting in whatever language I’ve done most of the research in, I don’t enjoy the translating part, I don’t enjoy the voice recording part (though can’t get around that!), I don’t enjoy the voice track editing part, and I’m ok with the rest.
So here’s a shout for a little help if you have the time and enthusiasm to help me speed up the process of producing content. You will need to be bilingual Arabic-English. I may need your help with some tedious translations of scripts and a little audio editing too! If you feel you can help me out with this, DM me on Twitface.
My long term plans are to try and keep my main channel as some form of online video library. I don’t want to create content on there unless it’s a direct resource for counter-dawah apologetics.
Maybe once I get through the ones I want to focus on, I might be able to kick start my second channel TMA
www.youtube.com/channel/UCGKY... Longer-term I’ll likely start up a new channel which focuses on entertaining education (edutainment) on a very wide range of topics (sports, politics, history etc). That will be called “Explained in Five” where I try to explain things in 5 minutes, no more, no less.
Here's the link if you're interested, though I won't be talking as much about Islam there, so have different expectations! www.youtube.com/channel/UCCva...
Anyway, that’s me trying to keep it “brief” and failing! So I’ll probably struggle with that 5 minute explanation channel concept and regularly go way over!
Look forward to hearing from some of you peeps in my DMs, and hopefully as a result, I'll be able to have a bit more production in 2020.
Ciao.
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