Unveiled: Yasmine Mohammed on Extreme Fundamentalism

<p dir="ltr">Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. </p> <p dir="ltr">Yasmine Mohammed attended Islamic schools and wore a hijab starting at the age of nine, all while living in Vancouver, BC. In this episode, she invites us into her childhood to get a taste of what it was like to live in two different worlds – the West and extreme fundamentalist Islam – while fitting into neither. She pulls back the curtain on the culty dynamics, indoctrination, and dehumanization characteristic of both worlds. We learn a little about her forced marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda at the age of 19. And she illuminates a Bill Maher moment with Ben Affleck that she believes exemplifies the West’s deeply problematic approach to radical Islam.  </p> <p dir="ltr">Check it out.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">NOTES:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.yasminemohammed.com/">Yasmine Mohammed</a> is founder and President of <a href= "https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/">Free Hearts Free Minds</a> – an organization devoted to those free thinkers in Muslim-majority countries whose lives are at risk for who they love or the words they utter. She’s a courageous and eloquent writer, podcaster, and human rights advocate as unafraid to criticize conversation police as she is to speak up against radical Islam. Yasmine is the author of <a href="https://www.yasminemohammed.com/unveiled">Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam</a>, a memoir/polemic that explores her own history and how Western liberalism gets in the way of actualizing liberation. She’s host of the podcast <a href= "https://www.yasminemohammed.com/forgottenfeministsold">Forgotten Feminists</a> that features inspirational women from restrictive religious backgrounds. And she speaks on Islamophobia and the Canadian motion against it to universities, organizations and major news agencies.  </p> <p dir="ltr">Find her on these medes: <a href= "https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx">Twitter</a> , <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@YasmineMohammedxx">YouTu