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Yasmine Mohammed Podcast

Yasmine Mohammed

This podcast is an opportunity for you to join me in conversation with inspirational people from restrictive religious backgrounds who have fought and who have overcome. You know some names already: you know Malala Yousufzai, you know Ayaan Hirsi Ali. But there are countless others who have survived insurmountable odds, overcoming the most vicious of obstacles, and whose names you will not recognize. They are the unsung heroes. The warriors hidden in the shadows. Come meet them on the Yasmine

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90:24

From Syrian Refugee to Spanish Guerrera

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/04/08

Mün is a Syrian refugee, an ex-muslim and a future special education teacher. She is a survivor of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and rape. Mün happens to fall into the small percentage of statistics where all her abusers have always been women. Mün’s name is inspired by the great moon. She chose it 5 years ago, when she decided to cut ties with her family and forge a new free life that she gets to architect. Instagram: me.lo.pienso YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mun.xvii.

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80:37

Where are the moderate Muslims? Interview with Shaykh...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/03/25

Kyai (Shaykh) Paul Salahuddin Armstrong is a British Muslim leader, multifaith advocate, and public speaker committed to fostering understanding, unity, and positive change in society. In 1998, his personal quest for meaning led him to explore various faith traditions, culminating in his decision to embrace Islam on 1st March 2000. His affiliation with the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqah (Sufi order) and Nahdlatul Ulama reflects Paul’s holistic approach to faith, which encourages intellectual ...

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57:32

Malaysian Mother and Australian Daughter Share Their...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/03/11

Siti Faridah Hashim is a victim and survivor of Malaysia’s radical Islamic ideology and the people who perpetuate it. After growing up in the harsh climate of fundamental Islam, she moved to Australia in 1991 to start a new and better life. She is a loving mother of three and enjoys gardening, shopping and reading. Siti joins us with her daughter Patricia Jordan to discuss their journey to freedom together. Patricia is currently a PhD Law Candidate and casual academic in Sydney. Pat is an Aus...

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83:44

Layla Alsheikh: A Bereaved Palestinian Mother’s Fight...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/03/04

Layla Alsheikh is a Palestinian mother whose 6-month-old son Qusay became sick due to Israeli soldiers throwing tear gas in the village. When Layla tried to take him to the hospital, the Israeli soldiers prevented her family and delayed their arrival to the hospital for more than 4 hours. Layla’s son passed away that night and Layla lived with her grief and anger for more than a decade. Layla started her healing process by joining The Parents Circle Family Forum, a nonprofit of over 600 berea...

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85:01

Mark Vicente on: Apartheid, Cults, and Narcissists

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/02/25

Mark Vicente is an NXIVM cult whistleblower and survivor, an author, speaker, and award-winning Writer, Director and Producer from Johannesburg, South Africa. Because of the atrocities in his native South Africa, he found himself propelled to question certain fundamental assumptions at a very young age. Mark has developed a keen and passionate interest in exposing the coercive and duplicitous environments of high-control groups. He is currently in post-production on ‘Empathy Not Included’ (Th...

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144:48

A Palestinian for Peace with Israel

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/02/18

Fadi Al-Waheed was born in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in the 80s to Palestinian parents. Fadi is a pacifist and an animal lover. His childhood was anything but nostalgic as he was force-fed the five Islamic books as doctrine. During university in Jordan, a friend’s admission of atheism ignited something in Fadi, leading him to quietly leave the faith at 21, all under the shadow of apostasy laws. Losing his mother in 2012 became a turning point; Fadi stopped apologizing for who he was and gave up tr...

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102:00

Fighting Against Sexism in the Orthodox Judaism...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/02/11

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll is an American-Israeli writer and an activist. As cofounder of Chochmat Nashim (Hebrew for Women's Wisdom) she fights extremism in the Orthodox community and raises the voices & faces of women. With a stock photobank (Jewishlifephotos.com) of real Orthodox Jewish women and families, she fights the erasure of women's images, and via RateMyBeitDin.com she gives voice to the community to improve the rabbinic court system where too many women find themselves chai...

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160:49

Behind the Curtain of the Muslim Brotherhood

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/02/04

Moomen Sallam, a former leader in the Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Egypt, will join me to discuss how the Brotherhood operates both in Egypt and on a global scale in Europe and North America. We will also discuss Egypt’s role in the war in Gaza and the current chaos in Syria. Moomen is a leading voice amongst freethinkers in Egypt and the author of several articles and books including, ABC Secularism and ABC Liberalism and co-author of Egypt and Israel: Forty Years in the Desert of Cold Peac...

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88:39

Dr. Phyllis Chesler: Feminist Icon

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/01/28

Dr. Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired psychotherapist. Some of her most influential books are Women and Madness, Letters to a Young Feminist, Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, An American Bride in Kabul, Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women.Since 9/11, Dr. Chesler has focused on the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim communities; the ...

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69:49

The Taliban's War on Women

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/01/21

Mina (pseudonym) is a former medical student from Afghanistan who was in her second year of university when the Taliban stripped her of the opportunity to pursue her education and career in medicine. She joins us for a special episode from inside Afghanistan to shed light on the dire reality for women under Taliban rule and the gender apartheid that governs their lives while the world watches.Tune in to hear Mina’s powerful story, gain insight into the experiences of Afghan women, and learn h...

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78:48

Breaking Free: How an Orthodox Jewish Woman Fled a...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/01/14

Yael grew up in Israel’s first kibbutz – Degania – with a secular mother and a traditional Moroccan father. When she was younger, she thought she was volunteering for a non-profit in Jerusalem, but it turned out to be a cult. Today, Yael is a Hebrew tutor and translator by day, musician by night, and a volunteer at The Feminist Library in Florence, Italy. She also writes for the Israeli magazine, Politically Corret (“corret” in Hebrew means “she reads”).Follow Yael on yaelfine_ (Twitter), and...

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85:57

No Rescue Coming: How Canadians Must Confront...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/01/07

In this episode with Dr. Babb, we discuss how all the antisemitic issues erupting in Canada are impacting politics, the education system, and the world. There is something rotten in the state of Canada and we are going to address that.Dr. Casey Babb is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a fellow with the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London, and an adviser with Secure Canada in Toronto.

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87:51

Unseen Syria: Growth, Defiance, and Media Blind Spots

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/12/24

Author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot' s Fight to Save His Faith, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is a former Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Navy, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), and Co-Founder of the Muslim Reform Movement.A first generation American Muslim, Dr. Jasser's parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960s for American freedom. A devout Muslim, he and his family have strong ties to the American M...

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80:00

From Cult to Clarity: Luke’s Journey of Belief

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/12/17

Luke Stacey grew up in a British Israelite cult in Australia until he was 10 .. He then attended a Christian high school where he experienced religious indoctrination, insinuations of gay conversation ideology, and was surrounded by extremely homophobic Christian culture. Later in life he moved into a Muslim majority Australian suburb with his partner, house mate and two dogs. Over several years he saw, heard and learnt many things which made him question the good nature of yet another r...

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112:36

Crossroads of Cultures: A Mizrahi Jew’s Fight for...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/12/10

An Egyptian-Iraqi Jew, Rachel Wahba was born in India and grew up stateless in Japan. As a Mizrahi Jew and Zionist activist the many dimensions of her exile and displacement in the first twenty years of her life are a constant theme in her work as a writer, content creator, former psychotherapist and her advocacy as an advisory board member for JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa). She is also the co-founder of Olivia Travel, a company dedicated to curating travel expe...

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91:37

Hard Truths from an American bride in Egypt

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/11/26

Karen Hunt is a full contact boxer who started the first and only boxing club for girls in Luxor, Egypt. She will be joining us to speak about her experience living in Egypt and why she was eventually forced to escape the country under dangerous circumstances.

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110:23

Growing up under Palestinian apartheid in Lebanon

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/11/05

Mohamad Ghaoui is a Palestinian-Lebanese man who grew up religious and worked with the PLO/PA in the 2000s. Mohamad is deeply committed to resolving the refugees and right of return issues, believing that its resolution is essential for overcoming barriers and paving the path to lasting peace.He actively opposes the Lebanese ban on communication with Israelis, which hinders progress towards understanding and reconciliation. Mohamad speaks up in support of decriminalizing dialogue with Lebanon...

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71:07

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Her journey from Africa to America...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/10/29

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As she grew up, she embraced Islam and strove to live as a devout Muslim. In 1992, Hirsi Ali fled to the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage. There she was given asylum, and in time citizenship. She quickly learned Dutch and was able to study at the University of Leiden.From 2003 to 2006, Hirsi Ali served as an elected member of the Dutch parliament. She then moved to the US, and in 2007 founded the AHA Foundation to protect and defe...

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100:27

Who are the Druze?

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/10/22

Rania Dean is a Druze Israeli who embodies the Arab and Jewish experience, understanding both languages and cultures while maintaining an independent ethnic and religious Druze identity. This unique perspective allows her to view both sides objectively, tirelessly working to dispel falsehoods and promote the truth about her country.Rania's advocacy took on renewed vigor on October 7th, driven by a resolute determination to counteract misinformation about Israel.Donate to the Druze of Ma...

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86:03

Under Police Protection for Researching Islamists in...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2024/10/15

Dr. Florence Bergeaud-Blackler is a distinguished academic and researcher who specializes in the study of Islamic norms within secular contexts in Europe, like the role of the economy in shaping religious norms and the development of halal ecosystems.Florence has written about the processes of Salafi indoctrination, considering both its fundamentalist and political dimensions, and how it interacts with the neo-liberal and post-modern political spheres.

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