Gahe, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas, and what idea could be more dangerous than to say, I'm sorry, I do not want to participate in this arranged marriage with an al-Qaeda terrorist.

That's something that today's guest found herself having to do.

Well, actually, she had to go through with the marriage after all, but you will learn about

that.

Henceforth, we asked me Mohammed is a hero, a heroine.

Are we saying heroine, heroin, heroin?

If we're not saying actor and actress, are we saying hero and heroin?

Anyway, I'll search for the memo on that.

I'm sure it's here somewhere. Gender, non-specificity on hero, heroin. Yes, heroin's still okay. Good. Not going to be canceled for that. Excellent. Yasmin is a heroine because she's a protector of women and girls, the world over over from the tyrannies of fundamentalist Islam.

That sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not.

She has a charity called Free Hearts, Free Minds, and literally helps to smuggle ex-Muslims and

LGBTQIA plus Muslims who live in Muslim majority countries that have death penalties for

leaving Islam and so on. She smuggles them out, applies for refugee status in, I was going

to say civilized countries, and then I thought that's not very politically correct, but in contrast

of the countries we're talking about, let's just call a spade spade, civilized

countries and helps them with psychological counseling and provides them with services to get

out of places which are deeply regressive. She also has a podcast called Forgotten Feminists,

which interviews women about their experiences leaving

Islam. Her own personal story is extraordinary. I mean, she was born and raised in Canada,

but her story is instructive about how you don't have to be born in some benighted part of

the most fundamentalist and backward Islamist backwaters to nonetheless feel the pain and suffering

and depression and brutality of Stone Age religions being inflicted upon you. It's not a fun

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