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Wise Women with Daisy Khan

Subscribe to @WiseWomenWithDaisyKhan. Every week, we sit down for real conversations about faith, identity, and the stuff that actually matters. This is a space for unfiltered information about Islam and Muslims, straight up, no spin. And it"s also a community where interfaith allies come together, struggling and striving to make the world a better place. When Taliban leaders sat across the table and Muslim women"s rights hung in the balance, Dr. Daisy Khan didn"t flinch. WISE Women is where faith

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The Church Question: Why Anti-Muslim Bias Still Persists

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2026/04/10

A thousand years of anti-Muslim tropes didn't stay buried in medieval manuscripts. They followed Christians into modern sanctuaries, Sunday school classrooms, and even progressive interfaith circles. So what happens when two ordained Baptist pastors decide to trace the roots and rip them out?In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan, hostDr. Daisy Khansits down withRev. Dr. Anna PielaandRev. Dr. Michael Woolf, a married clergy couple who co-founded Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland

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Is Domestic Violence Allowed in Islam? Spoiler: It's Not

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2026/04/01

In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan, with hostDr. Daisy Khan,Dr. Denise Ziya Berte, Executive Director of thePeaceful Families Projectand a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, torture, and interpersonal violence, dismantles the myth that domestic violence is a Western problem.She examines how the power and control tactics used by dictators operate identically inside abusive households, confronts the misuse of Verse 4:34 to justify spousal violence, and exposes the

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Rethinking Islam Together : A Journey of Faith,...

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2026/03/20

When a Grammy-connected Malaysian songwriter lost her music to religious gatekeepers who banned female voices and forbade instrumentation, she did not walk away from Islam. She walked straight into it, through theology, human rights law, and eventually the United Nations.In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan, with hostDr. Daisy Khan, singer, activist, and the founder of Muslims for Progressive Values, Ani Zonneveld traces a life built at the intersection of music, faith, and social justice

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From Persia to Iran: Who the Persians Are and Where...

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2026/03/17

Kamin Mohammadi is an author, journalist, broadcaster, editor and public speaker. Born in Iran, she and her family moved to the UK during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.She has written for the British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Condé Nast Traveller (UK and Italy), Psychologies, Donna Moderna (Italy), Men’s Health, The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times of India, The Mail on Sunday, Virginia Quarterly Review and the Guardian as well

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Ramadan: The Night Of Divine Unveiling Tagline - What...

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2026/03/11

There is a night hidden inside Ramadan with no fixed date. Muslims spend the entire month looking for it. That is entirely by design. Many fast and gain nothing but hunger and thirst. Intention is everything. Ramadan is not about food.Ramadan is the month that gives every Muslim the tools to close that distance.In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan, hostDr. Daisy Khan,Imam Feisal Abdul Rauftraces the origin of Laylat ul Qadr, the Night of Power, to the moment the Archangel Gabriel appeared to

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Who Erased Muslim Women From History? Scholarly...

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2026/03/06

In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Daisy Khan sits with Professor Asma Afsaruddin, author of the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women and a scholar of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, who has spent decades reading the original Arabic sources that most Muslims never access. What she found is a trail of deliberate edits, borrowed myths, and politically motivated reinterpretations that buried women's authority one century at a time. The Quran never

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From Hollywood to Islam - A Jewish Women's Spiritual...

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2026/02/27

In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan with host Dr. Daisy Khan, Sheikha Maryam Kabeer, author of Journey Through 10,000 Veils, shares the extraordinary story of her lifelong spiritual unfolding - a journey that began in Hollywood and led her across continents in search of divine truth. Raised in a liberal Jewish family in California, she describes sensing from early childhood that her life carried a deeper spiritual purpose. Even as a young actress trained in theater, she felt that standing

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What Ramadan Actually Means (Not What You Think)

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2026/02/20

In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan with host Dr. Daisy Khan, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf explains why Muslims fast and what Ramadan is meant to transform within the human being. The ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar marks the first revelation of the Quran, when the command to read changed history. Fasting disciplines appetite, strengthens will, sharpens self-awareness, and builds empathy for those who live with hunger daily. It is also deeply communal. Public iftars, tarawih prayers,

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FGM Is Un-Islamic : What Communities Must Do to End It

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2026/02/06

A single question about faith and harm sentDr. Daisy Khaninto a years-long investigation of female genital mutilation. She discovered a hard truth that many still resist. FGM is not required by Islam and it violates the very principles the Quran was revealed to protect.In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan, survivor and social activistMariya Taherjoins host Daisy Khan to separate culture from faith and to name the harm with clarity. Together, they trace how a cultural practice wrapped itself

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Dalia Mogahed Mapping the American Muslim Experience...

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2026/02/03

A Black History Month book report changed everything. A Madison, Wisconsin, public school student discovered Malcolm X was Muslim and realized Islam predated her Egyptian family in America. That revelation transformed Dalia Mogahed into one of the most influential Muslim voices in the country.In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan with host Daisy Khan, Dalia Mogahed shares research that challenges what Americans believe about Muslim women. She spent six years interviewing 50,000 Muslims

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Targeted by Bullying : Silent Crises of Muslim Students

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2026/01/22

Muslim students experience bullying at nearly double the national rate. Between 27% and 50% of Muslim youth in K–12 report being targeted, compared to 19-20% nationally. In 25% of those cases, teachers are identified as the perpetrators. These are not isolated incidents. They reflect systemic attacks on identity and belonging.In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Dr. Nadia Ansary, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Rider University. Dr

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A Muslim strategist, a Jewish organizer, and the...

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2026/01/12

Twenty-five years after 9/11 devastated New York and brought backlash against Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians, New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as the 112th mayor of the largest city in America. He's the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim mayor, born in Africa to South Asian parents. He took his oath on two Qur'ans underground in the historic Old City Hall subway station, with Senator Bernie Sanders administering the oath and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivering opening remarks

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Jesus in Islam and Christianity - Half the World...

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2025/12/24

Jesus is revered by 4.6 billion people, representing 56% of the global population. Christians honor him as the Son of God. Muslims venerate him as a prophet born miraculously to the Virgin Mary. Yet most people have never explored how these two faiths view the same figure. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Mustafa Akyol, author of The Islamic Jesus. They trace Jesus' life through both Christian and Islamic traditions. Mustafa reveals Jesus appears 93 times

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Mary in Islam and Christianity: The Woman Both Faiths...

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2025/12/19

Mary is mentioned more in the Quran than in the Bible. There's an entire chapter named for her in Islamic scripture. Both Christians and Muslims revere her as the ultimate example of purity, devotion, and surrender to God. Yet most people don't know the full scope of her story or how deeply she connects these two faiths.In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Camille Helminski, author of The Way of Mary and co-director of The Threshold Society. Camille spent

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The Truth Muslims Don’t Teach - Muslim Women’s...

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2025/12/11

Muslim women were granted complete financial independence in the seventh century. They controlled their earnings, owned property, kept their inheritance, and received mahr as a binding marital gift. Centuries later, cultural practices buried most of these rights. In this episode ofWISE Women with Daisy Khan,Dr. Daisy Khansits down withDr. Rabab Gomaa-Razik, scholar of Islamic law and author ofThe Wealth of Women, to expose the gap between what Islamic texts promise and what women actually receive

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10 Muslim Women Rights

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2025/12/04

Muslim women are not oppressed by Islam. They were empowered by it 1400 years ago with rights that remain revolutionary even today. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sets the record straight on what the Quran actually says about women versus what politicians and pundits claim. She reveals 10 specific rights Islam granted women in the 7th century that were centuries ahead of their time, including education as a religious duty, equal pay for work, the right to choose a

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Epstein File Hypocrisy - Double Standards in Girls’...

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2025/11/20

This is Wise Women with Daisy Khan – because every story matters. The journey ends not with what we acquire but with what we become. The qualities that sustain us through difficulty often become the very gifts we offer to the world. For more such inspiring stories and discussion, like, follow, and connect with Dr Daisy Khan. #WISEWomenwithDaisyKhan #WISEWomen #MuslimWomen #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverUp #ExposeTheTruth #AccountabilityNow #DoubleStandards #ProtectOurGirls #EndExploitation

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How Far We've Come : A new chapter for American...

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2025/11/07

Zohran Mamdani just became mayor-elect of New York City at 34 years old. The working class elected him while establishment Democrats and Republicans tried to stop his campaign by telling voters a Muslim couldn't lead America's largest city. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Farran Khan, Former Mayor of Irvine, the first Muslim woman of color to lead a large American city. They dissect what Mamdani's victory means for Muslim Americans and how he built a

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Mosques Are Not a Threat to the Neighborhood

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2025/10/30

A viral map shows 2,700 red dots across America, each representing a mosque, with captions screaming about Muslim takeover. But nobody mentions the tens of thousands of churches covering that same map. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, professor of religion at Carleton College and expert on Islam in America, is to expose the real story behind mosque opposition. Dr. Khan shares her firsthand experience proposing an Islamic cultural

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Is AI Humanity's Greatest Ally or Final Rival?

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2025/10/16

In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Daisy Khan sits down with celebrated software engineer and AI expert Waleed Kadous for a conversation that leaps beyond the usual tech talk. Discover how faith and innovation collide in surprising ways as Daisy unpacks Waleed’s journey from coding sign language gloves to shaping billions of Android devices. Explore the roots of AI’s data-driven world and learn why humanity’s wisdom is now unlocked in algorithms. Waleed reveals the origin story

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