Unveiled: Yasmine Mohammed on Extreme Fundamentalism

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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Yasmine Mohammed attended Islamic schools and wore a hijab starting at the age of nine, all while living in Vancouver, BC. In this episode, she invites us into her childhood to get a taste of what it was like to live in two different worlds – the West and extreme fundamentalist Islam – while fitting into neither. She pulls back the curtain on the culty dynamics, indoctrination, and dehumanization characteristic of both worlds. We learn a little about her forced marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda at the age of 19. And she illuminates a Bill Maher moment with Ben Affleck that she believes exemplifies the West’s deeply problematic approach to radical Islam.

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NOTES:

Yasmine Mohammed is founder and President of Free Hearts Free Minds – an organization devoted to those free thinkers in Muslim-majority countries whose lives are at risk for who they love or the words they utter. She’s a courageous and eloquent writer, podcaster, and human rights advocate as unafraid to criticize conversation police as she is to speak up against radical Islam. Yasmine is the author of Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam, a memoir/polemic that explores her own history and how Western liberalism gets in the way of actualizing liberation. She’s host of the podcast Forgotten Feminists that features inspirational women from restrictive religious backgrounds. And she speaks on Islamophobia and the Canadian motion against it to universities, organizations and major news agencies.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, or mental health advice. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast and are not intended to malign any religion group club organization business
0:13.8	individual anyone or anything.
0:17.0	I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy aims and this is a little bit
0:30.4	guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad.
0:35.7	Every week we chat with survivors, experts and whistleblowers for real cult stories told directly
0:40.7	by the people who live through them.
0:42.6	Because we want you to learn a few things,
0:44.2	we've had to learn the hard way.
0:46.1	Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something
0:49.0	colty, you're already prime recruitment material.
0:52.2	You might even already be in a cold.
0:53.6	Oops, you better keep listening to find out.
0:56.4	Welcome to season six of a little bit culty. Sinking down to be down with the ocean
1:05.0	hanging on to win my love.
1:09.0	I let go on it all that could leave, but I'm no one.
1:17.4	Welcome back everybody.
1:18.5	This is an episode ironically
1:20.8	that we had scheduled before the October 7th attack on Israel and this is
1:26.7	important to me and yeah I'm still pretty raw about it all there was so much to
1:32.0	talk about with our guest, Yasmin.
1:34.0	There is her story, which I first read about in her book, unveiled, which I cannot recommend enough.
1:40.0	We will be posting that in our Goodreads account.
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