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Francis Foster I'm Constantine Kitten.

I'm Francis Foster.

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And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is an author and humans rights activist.

Yasma Mohammed, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

It's great to have you here.

Listen, obviously, the reason we wanted to talk to you

is you've been pretty outspoken recently

in the wake of a number of terrorist attacks in France and there's a

broader issue to discuss as well. I can't wait to get to that because it's a

really important conversation but maybe it's best for us to start off by you telling our viewers a little bit about who you are and what is your

backstory how have you come to the place that you're in because it is very very interesting

to put a mildly.

Yeah so I I grew up in Canada to a Muslim family who were very religious and so I went to Islamic school. I was put in hijab at the age of nine so that's what covers everything but your face and hands. And you know your typical Islamic religious things so you'd have to wake up

before the sun rises to pray and then you pray five times a day and the last one being before you go before the sun or after the sun sets.

So being in the north because I grew up in Canada that ended up causing a lot of problems with the very long days sometimes.

And so there's a lot of sleep deprivation as my memory of childhood.

And like in Ramadan as well so Ramadan you can't you can't

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