My Old Imam Attempts to Reconvert Me After a couple of years of leaving Islam, I ran into my old Imam. He was really disappointed that I had not kept in contact with him (at the same time he had no idea, that I left Islam). So I was between a rock and a hard place, I didn’t want to hurt his feelings in telling him that I left Islam (because I remember when I was a believer in Islam and close brother I knew had left Islam, and it made me feel something terrible, the worst feeling in the world at the time) while at the same time, I didn’t want to mislead him into thinking that I didn’t like him. I felt it was better to be straight up. In short I told him how I felt, Islam as it is taught today does not fit my world view. He invited me to dinner, and we had a long discussion, and he tried to re-convert me. He doesn’t understand, that I was a real believer at the time, but I no longer in that frame of mind. I was neither scholar nor a student of knowledge but I am not ignorant of Islam. Of all the religious tradition that I’ve studied, from Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism etc etc, I’ve come to the conclusion that Hinduism fits closer to my world view. Knowing that my old Imam is not well versed in Hinduism, I guess I should be fair and see what are the Islamic arguments against Hinduism from people who may be aware of this tradition.