Hassan Radwan

Hassan Radwan (born 1959) was an English ex-Muslim YouTuber.
==Personal life==
Hassan was born in England in 1959, to an Egyptian father and an English mother. His mother converted to Islam, and Hassan was raised as a Muslim. He was not particularly religious until the age of twenty. Hassan visited Egypt with his father, and became more ardently religious upon his return. He studied Arabic and Islamic history at . During his second year, he became president of the university's Islamic Society, and set up a bookstall for Islamic materials. He attended Islamic circles in mosques & houses, and became the leader of one of these circles. After graduating from university, Hassan completed postgraduate studies in education, and got a job as a teacher at an Islamic school.
Hassan got married, and had five children in total, including a daughter who died a week after her birth.
He was "very active in the British Muslim community," and spent fifteen years as a teacher at an Islamic School, wrote two books for Muslim children and two collections of Islamic plays based on traditional Islamic folktales.
He once wrote a script for .
===Deconversion===
After the September 11th terrorist attacks, Hassan's instinctive response was "that there was no connection between the acts of these terrorists and the religion of Islam at all," and was shocked that some of his friends tried to justify the attacks. This led him to the realisation "that Islamic texts lend themselves to contradictory interpretations."
His eldest son became ill, and began to suffer from schizophrenia.
Until the London bombings in 2005, Hassan was "absolutely sure that Islam was the true religion," but then began to review the text of the Qur’an in a critical way. He was disturbed by the concept of eternal torture in Hell. He "simply couldn’t believe" that a verse about wife-hitting was the speech of the creator of the Universe, or other verses, such as those about slavery and concubines.
By 2006, he resigned from the school, and got a job teaching online. He began to suffer from depression. After three years, he began taking prescribed antidepressant pills, but this pills caused him to attempt suicide. Hassan stayed on his brother's farm, which "gave [him] the opportunity to think and meditate."
Hassan no longer believes in any religion, and calls for the non-interference of religion in the lives of individuals.
For a while after leaving Islam, he identified as an "Agnostic Muslim." In 2015, he was asked to submit an article about this to the newspaper . He joined the to support and others. He helped found their online forum.
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011