This was yesterday (I think), when Zayn Malik declared in an interview with Vogue that he doesn't consider himself a Muslim.

Tbh, I love the way he stated it and I deeply agree with that part about people's beliefs being something personal that nobody should have the right to interfere with and have opinions on.

I think it was very brave of him to publicly state this and be true to himself.

I'm someone who believes in Islam and I do love all parts of it but I respect what he said because that's HIS personal belief and literally nobody has the right to judge that.

But the way people are reacting to this makes me so fucking mad. It's either just trolls being islamophobic (I don't care about that because when does anything not have trolls) or other Muslims being disappointed and angry at Zayn, then judging the shit out of him.

Are his beliefs hurting you, attacking you? Why do you care so much? I'd understand some of the anger if he bashed Islam but he was being so respectful.

Here's what I mean.

I've never rolled my eyes so much at a tweet. I usually think cancel culture is  bullshit but at least most of the time it's about things that people find offensive or hurtful. How is somebody changing their personal beliefs offensive to you? How does it make him a bad person? Also, who the fuck do you think you are?

Maybe if you only liked someone because of what they believe in, something that literally affects you in no way, maybe you need to look at yourself again?

"His actions", What the fuck did he even do? These people are making it sound like he committed some atrocious crime or something.

They're the same kind of people that will ignore their faves being actually racist or offensive, but oh,  God forbid they goes against THEIR beliefs.

Oh, so all the people who sing, drink, smoke, party and get tattoos aren't Muslims? Who are you to decide that?

People's religious beliefs are whatever they claim they are, even if they don't seem religious to you. Plus, they aren't even any of your business to begin with.

Also you can't know why he chose to stop believing in Islam based on what you hear about him because you do not even know him in real life.

There are actual videos of people making up their own reasons and even going as far as to claim shit like he sold his soul to the devil.

Shit like this makes me so mad smh.

I didn't even think much about him saying this until I saw people's reactions.

What I thought of the most in the interview was this part.

This is him talking about his ex bandmates and honestly, my heart sunk when I read this.

(I know it's dumb)

One direction used to be my life when I was like 11-13. They were playing this old song of theirs in my local supermarket last week and that actually made me cry.

It broke my heart when Zayn left and then when 1D went on a break and never came back. The History music video still gets me.

I know this is stupid but you get it if you're a fangirl.

It's like how you'd feel if Harry, Ron and Hermione were real people but ended up growing apart and disliking each other at the end.

Am I making sense?