In the Arab world, where everything is pretty much Muslim, if you declare that you are an atheist or agnostic, you will be met with sarcasm at the beginning, they will tell you that you are stupid, when they realize that this wasn't effective enough to make you change your mind, they go with plan B, they will underestimate your reasons and tell you that your new stand is just a reaction to something bad in which don't really reflects the true peaceful religion.
This is what I want to discuss, the reaction. What's wrong with the reaction? if you buy a Ford car and then later you discovered it is a bad car, the normal thing for you to do is to have a reaction that would make you search for a better brand. You will search and search and you probably going to end up being a car expert that knows all cars. All that because of a reaction.