A Pathway to Peace in the Fight Against Oppression and Religious Trauma with Yasmine Mohammed
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.4 • 131 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer invites human rights campaigner Yasmine Mohammed to share her experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Islamic household, including her arranged marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda and her subsequent work as founder and president of Free Hearts Free Minds, an organization providing mental health support to free thinkers and members of the LGBTQ+ community who are unable to live authentically due to religious and societal persecution.
Candid conversations about religious trauma can feel uncomfortable, disloyal and even risky. However, human rights campaigner Yasmine Mohammed says now is the time to openly discuss the extremist nature of some religions and the trauma they cause for individuals, families, communities and nations. Cutting through religious and cultural identifications is extremely challenging - and even potentially life-threatening - but Yasmine says that humanistic support can be an antidote to ongoing objectification and oppression.
About Yasmine Mohammed:
Human rights campaigner Yasmine Mohammed advocates for the rights of women living within Muslim-majority countries, as well as those who struggle under religious fundamentalism in general. She is the founder and President of Free Hearts Free Minds, a nonprofit charity that provides mental health support for members of the LGBTQ+ community and free thinkers living within Muslim-majority countries – where both 'crimes' can be punished by execution.
Her book, Unveiled, is a memoir/polemic that recalls her experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Islamic household and her arranged marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda. She is also the host of the podcast Forgotten Feminists- where she has conversations with inspirational women from restrictive religious backgrounds who have fought and who have overcome.
Yasmine is a co-Founder and co-Director of the CLARITy Coalition. She is also on the Board of Directors for Humanist Global Charity and for Atheists for Liberty.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Emily Ruth, and I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, Transforming Trauma listeners. |
| 0:17.0 | Do you want to join the international NARM community in support of trauma-informed |
| 0:21.8 | care? If so, please consider joining us to become trained in the neuro-affective relational model. |
| 0:27.4 | We are excited to offer two starting levels of professional trainings designed to support those of you |
| 0:33.2 | working with clients or populations dealing with the effects of adverse childhood experiences and |
| 0:38.3 | complex trauma. The Level 1 online NARM Basics training is a psychoeducational training designed |
| 0:44.4 | for helping professionals in a variety of fields, such as mental health professionals, substance |
| 0:49.2 | abuse counselors, educators, doctors, nurses, other health care providers, coaches, and more. |
| 0:55.0 | The Level 2 NARM Therapist Training is a comprehensive clinical training designed for licensed |
| 1:00.0 | mental health professionals, as well as current mental health graduate students and clinical interns and trainees. |
| 1:06.0 | For more information on these NARM trainings and to apply, please visit www.narmtraining.com |
| 1:13.3 | forward slash schedule. |
| 1:19.5 | And now for our interview. |
| 1:22.0 | As a human rights campaigner, Yasmin Mohammed advocates for the rights of women living within Muslim majority countries, |
| 1:28.2 | as well as those who struggle under religious fundamentalism in general. |
| 1:31.9 | Yasmin is the founder and president of Free Hearts, free minds, |
| 1:35.3 | a nonprofit charity that provides mental health support for members of the LGBT community |
| 1:39.6 | and free thinkers living within Muslim majority countries, |
| 1:42.9 | where both are deemed crimes punished by execution. |
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