S4 EP7 | The Forgotten People - Part 1

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There’s no doubt that faith is a journey and fighting to protect one’s faith is an honorable struggle. But what happens when you embark on a journey without a guide - or even worse, a guide who has gone astray? This week’s episode sheds light on the grim reality of what happens when our vulnerable youth find comfort in the arms of strangers with ill intentions. Our guest Sara vulnerably shares her story of being groomed and radicalized in her early teens and how it turned her life upside down upside down forever. ** Our guest’s name has been changed to maintain confidentiality. - Host: Cadar Mohamud Lead Producer: Hanna Adan Writer: Maaheen Khan-Bashir Production Manager: Maaheen Khan-Bashir Sound Designer: Youssef Douazou Marketing & Design Team: Sawsan Abdillahi, Wasima Farah, Khadija Musa, Mariya Shan Cover Artist: Fatimah Nadeem

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0:00.0	The Trigor warning. This episode contains material of
0:25.9	highly sensitive nature including graphic descriptions of war that may be
0:30.3	triggering to some individuals.
0:36.6	Asa moorahabhalahi, Wabarykatu.
0:38.1	It is your sister and friend,
0:40.0	Adar, and you're listening to the Digital Sister Hurt podcast.
0:44.0	Islamophobia is a disease that permeates the Western world.
0:49.0	Let's not dance around it.
0:51.0	We've all felt it at different levels, at different extremes. When you live in the West,
0:56.0	particularly in a secular country, it can be very hard to practice your religion. I mean they make our
1:03.4	hajabs feel so heavy on our heads. But what are the consequences of that?
1:09.2	If you've been keeping up with us this season, and I hope you have, you will have heard Lubna's story out of France.
1:18.0	Today, though, I'm going to tell you another story that starts in France but ends somewhere completely different.
1:27.6	This story is about Sata, a schoolgirl facing an identity crisis, growing up in a place where she felt she had to hide.
1:37.0	So growing up in France, it was basically like a normal life like every other
1:47.1	kids that grow up in UK or Denmark or etc but the only difference I noticed it was about my Islamic identity because you know in France you cannot wear a job at school you cannot talk about
2:10.3	doing you know with your friends, etc.
2:13.7	Because they see it as a bad thing.
2:17.0	They took us like all the things that concern
2:21.0	the Dean matters, it's there at home. So growing up I choose that the dean is a private thing.
2:29.9	It's not like you know I think that you have to be proud of, like, it's a thing that you have to keep secret.
2:38.3	I think both my parents and me, we weren't prepared to the life in France because my parents were
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