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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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123:39

The Unheard History of the Yezidi People | with...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/09/30

Sheikh Mirza Ismail is a Yezidi religious leader who was forced to flee Iraq because of religious persecution. Spending over two years as a refugee in Syria and Turkey, Sheikh Mirza made his way to Canada where he received a degree in Social Service Work from Medix College in 2010. As a Sheikh, Mirza Ismail holds a portion of leadership among the Yezidi people and is the Founder and President of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International: www.yezidihumanrights.org Mirza was born...

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127:23

Celebrate Yasmine’s Birthday With Her Community and...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/09/16

In this very special episode, we celebrate my birthday by catching up with my wonderful friends, guests, and community. I’m honored, privileged and delighted to have these brave, strong, wonderful people in my life, who fill it with meaning and purpose, and who valiantly stand with me in the bold pursuit of human connection, mutual support, and critical thinking in a world often divided by ideology and prejudice. A big thank you to my entire community of listeners and guests for making...

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90:25

An Inside Look: Why Canada’s Leaders Fail to Combat...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/09/02

Selina Robinson is a Canadian politician and author of Truth be Told. After a webinar in early 2024, in which Robinson referred to the territory on which Israel was founded as “a crappy piece of land,” she became the centre of a political firestorm, in which activists and a group of Muslim clergy demanded her resignation. She was subjected to online harassment, including a credible death threat, and her constituency office was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. Selina was consequently fire...

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76:33

A Queer ExMuslim's Journey From Self-Hatred to...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/08/26

Magan Magan is a Somali writer who was born in Yemen. He migrated to Australia with his family at the age of four. Years later, he left Islam - having wrestled with his sexuality while enduring a narcissistic mother. Islam had permitted both her abuse and the teachings dehumanised him for being a homosexual. Magan is the author of Stop All The Clocks, a poetry collection, which represents a point of healing and serves as a reclamation of his humanity against the apostasy and anti-gay laws in ...

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84:33

How Did Islam Start?

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/08/12

In a new limited series called Islam and the West, Yasmine is inviting the most brilliant minds of our time to discuss the most pressing issues of our time. These conversations help us understand the goals of Islamists in the West, who are infiltrating our governments, media and academic institutions. They also examine strategies to battle the overwhelming antisemitism and Islamism in the West. The first guest on the Islam and the West limited series is Raymond Ibrahim, an expert on Islamic h...

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90:45

Inside Hasidism: The Misogynism Within Ultra-Orthodox...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/07/22

Goldie Hoffman grew up as one of 10 kids in a Hasidic family in an insular community in Brooklyn, New York. She endured strict gender roles, dress codes, and food laws. Her education was also limited as she was a girl in a Hasidic community. From a very early age, she was already acutely aware of and hated her restrictive second-class status. She knew what sexism was before she knew the word. While obtaining a degree in History and Middle East Studies, Goldie learned that anything countering ...

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99:06

Unveiling Iran: A 47-Year Struggle Against the...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/07/15

Sara is an exMuslim woman from Iran who has been working relentlessly to counter Islamofascist propaganda and misinformation in today's world, and to raise awareness about Islamotrauma and Gender Apartheid in Islamic countries and communities. Sara led a special community event where she talked about the latest war between the Islamic Regime and Israel, the ceasefire with Israel, and the history behind it all briefly. She then answered the questions from the community to help shed light on th...

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81:41

Jasmin's Odyssey: Saudi Arabia to Western Freedom

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/07/08

Jasmin was born to an Arabian father and an Italian mother in Saudi Arabia and raised in fundamentalist Islam. Jasmin started wearing burqa in her tweens. She would get into verbal altercations with the “Mutawaa” (religious police) who monitored everyone and would harass, beat with canes, or take women to jail if they didn’t comply as they are silenced and not seen in any public place. Jasmin experienced segregation in all aspects of her life and did not even own her own ID card as women belo...

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87:13

From Sufism to Zionism

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Dyan Bitan is a quantum healer and former Sufi who helps people break free from limiting programs that keep them stuck in cycles of suffering. She exposes belief systems - especially ideologies cloaked in righteousness - that hinder personal and collective freedom. In addition to her healing work, Dyan creates research-based content that challenges the appropriation of Indigenous struggles in the U.S. by pro-Palestinian activists. Through both her spiritual work and Jewish indigeneity advocac...

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83:18

Surviving the 2nd Intifada: The Intergenerational...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/06/24

Growing up in Israel during the 2nd intifada, Miri never realized she was traumatized because the abnormal was normal. The fear of taking the bus because it could explode, opening the newspaper to find names of people who died in an attack, serving in the army and knowing that she’d know someone who would be killed. She never gave the normalization of missiles and having a safe room at home and a shelter in a playscape a thought while living there. Only after moving to the US to get her docto...

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84:01

Western Allies Say She's ‘Islamophobic.’ Extremists...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/06/17

Lama Al Sword is a Saudi Arabian former Shia Muslim who sought asylum in the UK after leaving her faith. Born into a minority Shia community in a small Saudi town, she defied societal and religious constraints to forge her own path. A doctor by profession and a stand-up comedian by passion, Lama uses humor to shed light on her experiences as a queer ex-Muslim. She challenges taboos, amplifies marginalized voices, and fosters conversations on identity, faith, and freedom. X: https://x.com/lam...

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121:52

Lessons Learned on Healing from ExMuslim Women

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/06/10

In this very special episode of Yasmine Mohammed Podcast, Yasmine will be joined by a group of ExMuslim women who have survived Islamic upbringing to share what they have learned or unlearned regarding their experiences with boundaries, narcissism, trauma bonds and attachment styles. This group of fierce women are joining Yasmine to help shed light on some common experiences, red flags and strategies to overcome trauma in life. Yasmeena Ali: https://www.instagram.com/loveyasmeena/ Meshair S...

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111:38

Why We Speak Out: Identity, Anger, and Truth After...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/06/03

Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) and is based in Los Angeles, California. An activist and content creator of Iranian Jewish heritage, Matthew is dedicated to advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, promoting equality within the Iranian and Jewish communities, combating antisemitism, and supporting the Women Life Freedom movement for a free Iran. Matthew actively works to expose the hypocrisy within the anti-Israel movement and to counter claims of pinkwashing, especially following the ev...

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120:11

77 Years of Failure: Why the Palestinian Strategy...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/05/27

Samer joined the Fatah party in Palestine at the early age of 14 during the first Intifada. At the age of 15, he was arrested and had to spend 5 years in jail in Israel. After his prison sentence, Samer was elected as international secretary for the Fatah Youth. He was later elected as a head of International and Israeli relations on the Fatah Supreme Committee. For over 35 years, Samer has worked tirelessly to build bridges, engage in dialogue, and fight for a future where Israelis a...

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99:12

The Crisis Facing Syria’s Druze and Why No One’s...

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/05/20

As the Druze are experiencing a devastating attack which mirrors October 7 in many aspects, Rania Dean, who is a member of the Druze community, is coming back to discuss the recent attacks. Her family have had deep roots in the area for generations and embody the Arab and Jewish experience, understanding both languages and cultures while maintaining an independent ethnic and religious Druze identity. Rania will join us to help us understand what is happening to the Druze and why. Instagram: ...

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94:15

Healing After Narcissistic Abuse with Richard Grannon

Yasmine Mohammed Podcast ·

2025/05/13

Richard Grannon, author of A Cult of One: How to Deprogram Yourself from Narcissistic Abuse, creator of online courses and facilitator of a supportive community all focused on helping others defend themselves, get back on their feet, and finally free themselves from narcissistic abuse. Drawing on numerous forms of psychotherapy, including NLP, cognitive behavioural therapy, Zen meditation, psychodynamics, and more, Grannon’s unique methodology offers a direct, practical solution to help narci...

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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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