Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian university instructor, human rights activist and author.
29 Facts About Yasmine Mohammed
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Yasmine Mohammed is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and is the co-founder and co-director of the CLARITy Coalition.
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Yasmine Mohammed is the author of Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims.
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Yasmine Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris, and was mentioned by Real Time with Bill Maher twice.
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Yasmine's mother is Egyptian, the niece of former President Mohammed Naguib, and her father was Palestinian, born in Gaza.
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Yasmine Mohammed's mother sought community and support from a local mosque, where she met a man who said he would support her.
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Yasmine Mohammed was already married, with three of his own children, and Yasmine's mother became his second concurrent wife.
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Yasmine Mohammed was six at the time, and states that her mother's situation improved, because her new husband was not abusive towards her.
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Yasmine Mohammed stated that her mother became what could be described as a "born-again" Muslim, which changed Mohammed's life.
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Yasmine Mohammed was no longer permitted to go outside to play with her friends and she had to pray five times per day.
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Yasmine Mohammed was forced to wear a hijab and was beaten for failing to memorize the Quran.
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Yasmine Mohammed started attending an Islamic school that was established in the mosque.
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Yasmine Mohammed has often described the way she was raised as "evil".
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Yasmine Mohammed started wearing the niqab at the age of 19, after being introduced to her future husband.
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When Yasmine Mohammed was 19, she was forced to marry Al-Qaeda operative Essam Marzouk, and had a daughter with him.
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Yasmine Mohammed later escaped the marriage to protect her daughter from the threat of female genital mutilation.
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Yasmine Mohammed changed their names and moved to a different city, as she was worried that her daughter would be kidnapped and raised a Muslim.
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Yasmine Mohammed decided to start speaking out after she watched Ben Affleck and Sam Harris debate Islam on Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Yasmine Mohammed has criticized both Islam and the left - that she accuses of inadvertently enabling radical Islam through their work to fight Islamophobia.
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Yasmine Mohammed was a witness at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on November 8,2017 regarding the inclusion of the word Islamaphobia in Motion 103.
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Yasmine Mohammed founded a non-profit organization called Free Hearts Free Minds that helps ex-Muslims living in Muslim-majority countries with state-sanctioned death penalties for leaving Islam.
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Yasmine Mohammed wrote a memoir titled Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam.
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Yasmine Mohammed received two years of rejection letters before being convinced by Sam Harris to self-publish.
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Yasmine Mohammed responded that a more accurate title for the book could have been How Some Western Liberals Unintentionally Empower Radical Islam but this would not have captured sufficient attention.
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Yasmine Mohammed subsequently changed the name of her book to Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims for the Updated and Revised Edition.
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Yasmine Mohammed has been accused of advancing Islamophobic views, which allegedly involve prejudice and discrimination against Islam and Muslims.
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Yasmine Mohammed has argued that Canada is bringing in people that don't share our values.
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Yasmine Mohammed has since remarried and has two daughters, one from her first marriage and one from her third.
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Yasmine Mohammed severed ties with her mother after her mother threatened to kill her because she wouldn't wear hijab anymore and because she had become a non-believer.