The work recounts the life of Al-Husseini up to 2015 and was released just after the Charlie Hebdo shooting . He born and raised in Qalqilya , Palestine in a Sunni Muslim family . The book focuses mainly on his journey from faith to atheism . Al-Husseini relates his experience from his first doubts , to the questioning of the precepts of Islam , the social stigma associated with loss of faith , from his activism on the Internet – through his blog " The Voice of Reason " – in the field of human rights and criticism of Islam until his work is discovered by the country 's security service and he ends up in prison for insulting the state religion . The author says he never expected to be imprisoned for his online writings , but they became so widely read that the Palestinian authorities perceived him as a threat and had him arrested . During his detention , he suffers physical and psychological torture until , waiting for the final trial , he is eventually released on parole . He takes the opportunity to flee to France as a political refugee . After settling in the country , he becomes one of the co-founders of the Council of Ex-Muslims of France ( CEMF )
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Charlie Hebdo shooting
The Blasphemer: The Price I Paid for Rejecting Islam