AS125: Eiynah Nice Mangos
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 6 April 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This week I'm joined by Pakistani-Canadian illustrator/blogger Eiynah! If you're wondering, that's not her real name. Why would she need to be anonymous? Well she used to be a Muslim, I wonder if that has anything to do with it… Anyway, in this first part, Eiynah talks about her background growing up in Saudi Arabia and … Continue reading AS125: Eiynah Nice Mangos
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Welcome to atheistically speaking episode 125 with your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:39.0 | Joining me right now is Aina. |
| 0:41.0 | Aina nice mangoes, I say how you doing good good how are you I'm quite good so I've been |
| 0:48.8 | following you on Twitter for a while in your blog and I saw recent posts about the, oh another thing that I'm going to make |
| 0:57.7 | sure I can pronounce correctly, Niqab or is that? |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, yeah. Nicab or is that? |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:03.6 | And I, it's an issue that you are definitely very passionate and writing very passionately |
| 1:11.8 | about and I was very curious to passionately about it. |
| 1:13.0 | And I was very curious to talk about it, so thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, thank you for having me. |
| 1:19.0 | Before we get to that, though, would you mind going into a bit of your background and possibly the reasons why you probably have to be a bit vague about your background? |
| 1:30.0 | Right, so basically I'm a Pakistani Canadian, raised in Saudi Arabia for much of my life. |
| 1:39.0 | Ex-Muslim and that is the part that you know the reason that I have to stay vague about my |
| 1:46.8 | background I go by a pseudonym I can't have my name attached to even you know some of my best pieces of work which is upsetting |
| 1:56.6 | and people talking about the religion of peace and you know it being so peaceful and lovely I would just like to ask them why I can't exist. |
| 2:09.0 | Yeah, you know, pretty basic. |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:12.0 | Wow, that basic. Yeah. |
| 2:13.0 | Wow, that's really sad. |
| 2:14.0 | At what age did you, if you don't mind me asking, what age did you move? |
| 2:18.0 | Move from... |
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