Young Muslims apostates begin fight to abandon faith in Europe

A group of young Muslim apostates will launch a campaign today to make it easier to renounce Islam.

London, Sept.11 : A group of young Muslim apostates will launch a campaign today to make it easier to renounce Islam.

The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for the freedom of religion, but has already upset the Islamic and political establishment by stirring tension in the million-strong Muslim community in The Netherlands, reports The Times.

Ehsan Jami, the committee's founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in The Netherlands. He is presently in hiding after receiving a series of death threats and being a victim of a recent attack. Speaking to The Times at a secret location before the committee's launch today, the Labour Party councillor said that the movement would declare war on radical Islam.

Jami, 22, who has abandoned his studies as his political career has taken off, denied that the choice of September 11 was deliberately provocative towards the Islamic establishment.

"We chose the date because we want to make a clear statement that we no longer tolerate the intolerence of Islam, the terrorist attacks," he said.

Jami compares the rise of radical Islam to the threat from Nazism in the 1930s.

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