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Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast

A critical look at Islam from your friendly neighbourhood exmuslim. Interviews with former believers (of all religions). Discussions on the good and bad parts of religious ideology.

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114 – Epileptic Prophet Part 6 | OCD VIOLENCE...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/11/09

This episode is the 6th installment in the series ‘The Epileptic Prophet’ in which Abdullah Gondal and I tackle the question of Muhammad’s mental health and possible epilepsy. Our aim is to provide an alternative explanation to Muhammad’s supposed prophethood from a neurological perspective. In this episode, we explore Muhammad’s possible OCD, violence, and hypergraphia. We started the episode by discussing Muhammad’s narcissism. We presented an excerpt of an interview by Dr. Ali Sina in which

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113 – The Wicked Son: Exploring the Paradoxes of...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/11/01

For this week's episode, I am joined by Mookie. He is an American Jew and we will be exploring Mamet's archetype of the allegedly self-loathing Jew who has internalized the world's antisemitism. He's going to defend his intellectual agnosticism, rational criticisms of Israel, and advocacy of global humanism. You can find Mookie on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mookiespitz YouTube version of this conversation: https://youtu.be/KIF-NqNjhss

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112 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET PART 5 – ANGER ANXIETY...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/26

This episode is the 5th installment in the series ‘The Epileptic Prophet’ in which Abdullah Gondal and I tackle the question of Muhammad’s mental health and possible epilepsy. Our aim is to provide an alternative explanation to Muhammad’s supposed prophethood from a neurological perspective. We kicked off the episode by discussing behavioral changes/characteristics attributed to interictal behavior in temporal lobe epilepsy. We compared these characteristics to those of Muhammad as described in

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111 – Interview with Egyptian Exmuslim Tarek

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/24

For this episode, I was joined by Tarek, an Egyptian ex-Muslim who is now based in Canada. We started off the conversation by discussing Tarek’s religious background in Egypt and the role that religion played in his life. We then went on to discuss how Tarek came across programming through online gaming. Tarek’s programming adventure opened a window of logic into his life and he went on a quest to apply critical thinking and logic to other aspects of his life. Tarek then shared how this sparked

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110 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET PART 4 | Snorting,...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/19

This episode is the 4th installment in our series ‘Epileptic Prophet’ in which we tackle the question of Muhammad’s mental health problems and possible epilepsy. Our aim is to provide an alternative explanation of Muhammad’s actions and prophethood from a neurological perspective. We started off this episode by going through the automatisms that Muhammad experienced while receiving revelation. These include severe convulsions accompanied by face color changes, heavy breathing/ snorting like a

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109 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET PART 3 | FARID AND HIS COUSIN...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/12

This is the third installment of our series “The Epileptic Prophet’, Abdullah Gondal and I continued where we left off last time. In this series, we tackle the question of Prophet Muhammad’s neurological problems and possible epilepsy. For this episode, we started off by giving a quick recap of the previous two episodes of this series. We went through Dr. Abbas’s explanation of Muhammad’s convulsions, some videos of contemporary epilepsy patients having convulsions and then we compared their

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108 – Interview with Muslim Convert Shaykh Faroos

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/09

Shaykh Faroos (AKA The Faroos) is a teacher of Islam located in the United States who began studying Islam in the 1990s. He has published books on Islam, lectured throughout the United States, taught at the masjid, and served as a Youth Group Director. He specializes in Usul al-Fiqh, comparative fiqh, comparative religions, epistemology, history, Physics, and the experiences of being an American convert of Norse and Celtic background - a modern-day "Viking" Muslim. Shaykh Faroos accepts that not

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107 – Interview with Singaporean Muslim Convert...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/06

For this episode, I was joined by Terence Kenneth John Nunis, a Singaporean Muslim convert. He grew up as a devout Catholic until his late teenage years when he converted to Islam. We kicked off the interview with Terence sharing his background as a Christian, his journey searching for the truth, and how it led him to Islam. Terence and I then talked about why he thinks that controversial Muslim apologists like Dr. Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan must be banned from Singapore. We discussed the

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106 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET PART 2 WITH ABDULLAH GONDAL...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/05

This episode is the second installment in the series ‘The Epileptic Prophet’ in which we discuss Muhammad’s neurological condition and possible epilepsy. We were joined by Dr. Ali A. Rizvi to help us with his take on this topic based on his experience as a medical doctor specializing in pathology. We kicked off the discussion by giving a quick recap of the first episode in this series. We then move moved on to talk about Muhammad’s postictal psychosis symptoms while he was receiving revelation

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105 – Why Juli Jalaluddin of Malaysia Left Islam 15...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/10/03

For this episode, I was joined by Juli Jalaluddin who was gracious enough to share her life story with us. Juli was born in 1972 and grew up in Malaysia. In this interview, we covered Juli’s religious background in Malaysia and the role that religion played both in her personal life and that of her family. Juli also recounted how she started having small doubts about Islam that she kept pushing aside until she went to Colorado for further studies. The conversation then moved to how Juli’s small

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104 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET – EXCLUSIVE SERIES EPISODE 1...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/09/24

For this exclusive series, Abdullah Gondal and I tackle the question of whether Muhammad had epilepsy. Since this is the introductory episode of this series, we started off this discussion by defining the term epilepsy and highlighting the different types of epilepsy and their general symptoms. We then moved on to discuss the scholars/medical practitioners and sources that we will be using to inform this discussion and this series going forward. The focus of the discussion then moved to

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103 – The Status of Women in Muslim Societies with...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/09/20

For this episode, I was joined by Khadija Khan, a journalist, and commentator based in the UK. She writes for different publications focusing on human rights, women’s rights, as well as minorities, and extremism. This was an incredibly hard-hitting interview sharing the authentic experience of a woman growing up in a male-dominated society. You get to hear what it’s like to be sexually assaulted and can do nothing about it. You get to hear about the limited options given to women growing up in

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102 – PART 2: Former Muslim Convert and Ex-Muslim...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/09/12

In part two of the interview with former Muslim convert and ex-Muslim agnostic humanist Aboo Imraan, we continue with the discussion on his life as a Salafi Muslim and his journey out of faith. We start off with Aboo’s life in Atlanta Georgia and how he learned Arabic and became a translator for various publishers as well as some of the books he translated. We also touched on his second marriage, his hijrah to Egypt, and how his experiences in Muslim majority countries (Egypt and the Kingdom of

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101- Interview with Ex-JW Jonathan

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/09/10

Jon was born into and baptized at 15 in Jehovah's Witnesses. His last meeting was in 2012 and he's been a vocal opponent to the JW leadership for a couple of years now. We are going to discuss his journey out of the Jehova's Witnesses. His merch: https://apostatecoalition.creator-spring.comHis YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wulQ53g05BBD2cXpEWaAHis TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@exwitnessawake?lang=enHis IG: https://instagram.com/exwitnessawake YouTube version of this interview:

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100 – Religious Sexual Shame with Ex-Catholic Susanna...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/09/07

In this podcast, I am discussing sexual shame and purity culture enforced by religion with Ex-Catholic Susanna of the Atheist Republic! She also discusses how it affected her as a young Catholic and her journey out of faith as well as her activism with the Atheist Republic. Blasphemous Art: https://www.blasphemousart.com/Atheist Republic: https://www.youtube.com/c/AtheistRepublic YouTube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/RU8ibF5ZPkk Timestamps: 0:00 Introductions1:54 Susanna’s

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099 – Good Things in Islam with Armin Navabi

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/08/31

In this podcast, Armin Navabi of the Atheist Republic and I discuss the utility of studying Islam and other religions from a secular perspective. We also discuss reforming VS secularizing Islam. 🔔 Don’t forget to Subscribe to his YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToAR 📗 Download his book, "Why There Is No God" for FREE: http://bit.ly/AR-Mail 🎨 Blasphemous Art Ebook: http://bit.ly/BlasphemousArtBook 💖 Support him on Patreon: http://bit.ly/SupportAR 📧 Subscribe to his

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098 – Former Muslim Convert and Exmuslim Salafi Aboo...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/08/15

Aboo Imraan is a Latino, Secular Humanist, who practiced Salafi Islam for approximately twenty-eight years. During that time he translated and published over eight Islamic works from prominent Salafi scholars that are still widely read around the world. Aboo's YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQjn0RJKdHvEQkPPKcj6hJgAboo's IG: https://www.instagram.com/AbooImraan/Aboo's blog: https://offdamanhaj.blogspot.com/ YouTube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/5gXBxjxa1wg Here are the

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097 – Bad Things in the Bible – A Discussion with Two...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/08/02

I am discussing with Derek Lambert of @MythVision Podcast on YouTube and Dr. Josh Bowen of @Digital Hammurabi. Derek Lambert has an amazing YouTube channel with many high-profile interviews of academics discussing the Bible and history. Dr. Joshua graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in Assyriology in 2016 and has authored many books. MythVision: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWVCimOe67LOfyi9PjUeGgA Digital Hammurabi:

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096 – Discussing Hatun Tash Stabbing with Abdullah...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/07/28

In this podcast, Abdullah Gonadal, Apostate Aladdin and I discuss the recent knife attack at the speakers' corner in London. We also explore the Islamic texts and teachings and discuss how they may be a source of motivation for people who commit such violent acts. The YouTube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/Bv37emLQuA8 Gondal's FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006615126777 Apostate Aladdin's channel:

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095 – The Two Abdullahs Featuring Abdullah Gondal and...

Mr. and Mrs. Friendly Exmuslim Podcast ·

2021/07/04

In this podcast, we continue the Circus of Islam with Abdullah Gondal and Apostate Prophet. We discuss some of the ridiculous and absurd Islamic teachings and claims made in the Quran, the hadith, and other Islamic literature. Here is the YouTube version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/xRSGPaVhUTU Here are the timestamps for the podcast: 0:00 Introductions1:41 The drama between Apostate Prophet and Saajid Lipham - Was Jesus a Muslim?17:02 Does Jesus really fit into Islamic theology?18:50

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