Anwar Shaikh

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Mohammad Anwar Shaikh (born June 1, 1928 as Haji Mohammad - November 25, 2006) was a Pakistani-born author residing in Cardiff. He was born into a religious muslim family of Kashmiri ancestry in Gujrat, Punjab. His mother could recite a large part of the Qur'an from memory. During the violent days of the Partition of India in 1947 he killed on one day two Sikhs, a father and his son. He later killed another Sikh. After the age of 25 he became a critic of Islam. Thereafter he immigrated into U.K., married a Welsh woman, and became a successful businessman.

Starting in the 1970s, he wrote many books critical of Islam. Shaikh, who later converted to Hinduism and took the name Aniruddha Gyan Shikha, passed away in Wales, Great Britain. His testimony of leaving Islam (Autobiography of a Dissident - Anwar Shaikh ) appeared in Ibn Warraq's book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. [1]

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  • Islam: The Arab National Movement
  • Islam: Sex and Violence
  • Islam and Human Rights
  • This is Jihad
  • Islam: The Arab Imperialism
  • Eternity
  • Faith and Deception
  • Taxation and Liberty

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