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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's Tale

Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized—one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed believes both sides are dangerously wrong.

In Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam, Yasmine speaks her truth as a woman born in the Western world who was forcefully married to a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda. Despite being a first-generation Canadian, she never felt at home in the West. And even though she attended Islamic schools and wore the hijab since age nine, Yasmine never fit in with her Muslim family either. With one foot in each world, Yasmine is far enough removed from both to see them objectively, yet close enough to see them honestly.

Part Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, part The Handmaid's Tale, Yasmine's memoir takes readers into a world few Westerners are privy to. As a college educator for over fifteen years, Yasmine's goal is to unveil the truth. Is FGM Islamic or cultural? Is the hijab forced or a choice? Is ISIS a representation of "true" Islam or a radical corruption? And why is there so much conflicting information? Like most insular communities, the Islamic world has both an "outside voice" and an "inside voice." It's all but impossible for bystanders to get a straight answer.

Without telling anyone what to believe, Unveiled navigates the rhetoric and guides truth-seekers through media narratives, political correctness, and outright lies while encouraging readers to come to their own conclusions.

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"All those interested in how humans overcome adversity must read this book. Yasmine is one of the bravest people of our time.She is a shining example to all of us." -Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel

"Too many of us fail to realize that the principal victims of the unspeakable cruelty that fervent adherence to Islam inspires (not to mention the bossy control-freakery that invades even minute details of everyday life) are Muslims themselves. Especially women. Yasmine Mohammed's heartrending, brave, and beautifully written book brings this home in a way that should finally change the minds of even the most deeply misguided apologists in our well-meaning liberal midst." -Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion

"Women and freethinkers in traditional Muslim communities inherit a double burden. If they want to live in the modern world, they must confront not only the theocrats in their homes and schools, but many secular liberals--whose apathy, sanctimony, and hallucinations of "racism" throw yet another veil over their suffering. In Unveiled, Yasmine Mohammed accepts this challenge as courageously as anyone I've ever met, putting the lie to the dangerous notion that criticizing the doctrine of Islam is a form of bigotry. Let her wisdom and bravery inspire you." -Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith

"Insider personal accounts form powerful testimonies. Deeply moving, at times depressing but filled with hope for what can be, instead of what is, Yasmine's story is no exception. Ex-Muslim women are likely to be the most oppressed minority group around the world. Name one other personal choice that can lead to honour-based violence coupled with mob execution in countries that we consider our allies. No liberal is worth their salt if they neglect these minorities within minorities. And Muslims worldwide must recognize this tyranny within our ranks. I hope Yasmine's brave personal account can contribute to raising such desperately needed awareness." -Maajid Nawaz, author of Radical

Yasmine Mohammed is a very courageous woman and a shining example for all women who have faced abuse either under the guise of religion or culture. Yasmine's story is tragic and compelling at the same time. She weathered something no human should endure. Her story is also one of tenacity and courage because "There is no excuse for Abuse" -Raheel Raza, author of Their Jihad, not my Jihad

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Dedication:This book is for every person who feels crushed under the enormouspressure and terrifying threats of Islam. I hope my story helps you and inspiresyou to break free and spread your own gorgeouswings.
This book is also for those of you who feel compelledto demonize all Muslims.I hope you will see that we are all just human beings and that we allbattle our own demons.
This book is for anyonewho feels a duty to defend Islam from scrutiny and criticism. I hope you will see that whenever you deflect criticism,you are deflecting the lightfrom shining on millions of peopleimprisoned in darkness.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Hearts Free Minds (September 25, 2019)
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1999240502
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1999240509
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Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed advocates for the rights of women living within Muslim majority countries, as well as those who struggle under religious fundamentalism anywhere. Yasmine is the founder of Free Hearts Free Minds, the only non-profit organization dedicated to supporting those who renounce Islam across the globe, especially those within Muslim majority countries where the state-sanctioned punishment for leaving Islam is execution. Today she lives in Canada with her two daughters, who let their gorgeous hair flow, and with her loving, supportive husband who had no idea what he was in for when he married her almost two decades ago.

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LeeAnn Castorena-Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
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Just read it. Her story is amazing, horrible, sad, inspiring, and, most importantly, supremely educational on a level that is deeply needed right now.
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Mark Affeltranger
5.0 out of 5 stars Yasmine Muhammed's Unveiled
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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Great book! More people should know about this woman's story. She is a champion for, not just all oppressed women, but all oppressed people
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Vitagirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Unveiled
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
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A complete eye opener of a book. Highly recommended for anyone in a western country. Brings clarity about Islamic thought.
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L. Stein
4.0 out of 5 stars Not an easy read, but a poignant tale about overcoming adversity
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2020
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This book deals with a tough topic, and the stuff the character goes through is heart-wrenching. Often under the guise of tolerance, we can ignore some of the darker aspects of difference cultures or religions. In today's political climate, there only appear to be two choices: to tolerate ideas that are contrary to human rights to not be considered Islamophobic, or be on the other side and completely prejudiced. There is a nuance here. The story inspires reflection on how an ideology - if taken too far - can be harmful. My concern is that some of the stuff the author went through could inadvertently prejudice people to Islam. As someone who is not Muslim, I cannot speak to how common these experiences are, but I appreciate her courage in giving a voice to others who may be feeling oppression not just from their cultural and religious expectations, but also inadvertently from political correctness and disenfranchising those who look at things critically.
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The Elder
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly harrowing and ultimately heroic memoir.
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019
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Yamine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim who now helps Muslims and ex-Muslims deal with their circumstances with their communities and families.

Her recently published memoir, Unveiled, is a truly harrowing account of her life. It is ultimately a heroic story of how she managed to overcome a sickeningly abusive childhood and to escape her circumstances, while shining a light on how millions of Muslims are forced to live.

To be sure, most Muslims do not have to endure what Yasmine did. Her mother has severe psychological problems and turned to extreme Islam in order to find order in her own life. She married (according to Islam) an abusive man who was already married and who insisted on strict application of rules that he called Muslim. This man sexually abused Yasmine.

But the real abuse came from her mother. She only got pregnant with Yasmine in order to try to keep her first husband from leaving her and since that plot failed, she treated Yasmine like an unwanted excretion from her body that she was stuck with. (She would actually tell her that.)

Her mother embraced the most extreme Islam of her husband in order to find meaning in her own damaged life.

To a large extent, the book is Yasmine's relationship with, and attempts to break free from, her mother - a woman who would tell her husband that 6-year old Yasmine didn't do her prayers properly so that he would brutally beat his stepdaughter on the bottoms of her feet so the bruises wouldn't show.

Yasmine grew up believing that she was worthless and that her mother held the key to allow her into heaven, so she was in a never-ending cycle of trying to gain love from a woman who truly hated her. But she would always question the rules she was forced to live under, and sometimes she would meet others who liked her for who she was, giving her a glimmer of much-needed self-esteem under the crushing weight of the twin burdens of her family and Islam.

So many times in her life it looked like she would finally break free, only to be reeled back in by circumstances.

Chillingly, Yasmine finally gave in to be married to a man her mother chose for her that her mother herself tried to seduce. This man imprisoned her in every real sense, even beating her for idly singing the alphabet song when looking up something in a reference book. Their baby's birth both cemented her prison sentence and gave her the resolve to escape so her daughter would never have to live through the same hell she did.

She finally managed a (Canadian) divorce, and only later found out that her husband was a major Al Qaeda terrorist.

Slowly, sometimes agonizingly so, Yasmine manages to escape the hell of her upbringing.

How much of her awful childhood was a result of Islam and how much from a psychotic mother and abusive stepfather/"uncle"? Yasmine brings statistics and plenty of anecdotes from other Muslims and ex-Muslims about things like female genital mutilation, sexual assault and the psychological pain from wearing a hijab and (later) a full burka. She mentions a friend who broke free, and when she fell and hurt herself and her boyfriend ran to see if she was OK she assumed he would berate her for being so stupid. That's how generations of women are taught to think about themselves.

There is no way most Muslims grow up in such an environment, certainly not in Canada where Yasmine was born, but her story is not so different from how many Muslim women are forced to live in Muslim-majority countries. She had opportunities to meet others, especially the years she was allowed to go to public school, and to start to question things. Most Muslim women in Islamic countries do not even have that lifeline.

Her final chapter is an appeal to today's feminists, who are so anxious to find something to protest that they spend their time blowing up truly minor issues like whether to remove the "e" from "women" yet they ignore the patriarchy and often abuse that is imposed on hundreds of millions of girls and women, today, in Muslim-majority countries. Fear of being labeled "Islamophobic" wins out over helping so many who are imprisoned as Yasmine was. It is a damning indictment of today's Western feminism and a world where Nike would never consider to put its logo on Mormon women's underwear but happily places it on a hijab that so many wear not out of free will but out of fear.

This is a frightening and ultimately uplifting book about a remarkable woman and her incredible journey.
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Ekaterina S.
5.0 out of 5 stars An insider story of abuse of a woman who was raised in a fundamentalist family in Canada
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2019
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The subject of the book is very difficult, but the book itself was easy to read. The author tells her personal story, adding general information about the situation in Muslim-majority countries, showing that her story is not unique, but is actually common around the world. Her personal story of abuse is a specific illustration of a general trend. She, however, was born in Canada, and she was betrayed by the Canadian court in the name of political correctness.
It is hard to imagine that such things happen, let alone in the West. It is even harder to learn that the West allows and even supports it. I will not say much about the appalling abuse the author has survived – you can read about it yourselves. I will rather mention some of the takeaways for me from this book.
The first is how wannabe feminists & liberals are failing those who need them most in the name of PC, cultural sensitivity & religious freedom. How they are being nothing but racist out of fear to be perceived as such. If a child is white, she should be protected from abuse. But if she is "brown", of Middle Eastern or foreign origin, then let her be abused! They only care about women and LGBT rights as long as fundamental religious feelings are not concerned. When white western women of Christian descent are abused, it is wrong; when it happens to Muslim, brown, Middle Eastern, or immigrant women, "it's their culture".
People who want to consider themselves liberal should avoid double standards. People who claim to oppose racism should apply the same standard to all people, of all races. "All little girls bruise, regardless of ethnicity". All women & girls should be protected, not only white ones. Denying some girls protection because of their ethnicity or culture is nothing but racism. Cultural sensitivity is hurting minorities within minorities, e.g. women & LGBT living in Muslim communities. Saying that abuse is ok if it is done by someone from a foreign culture or within a minority community is actually saying that it is ok to hurt a person as long as they are Muslim (in this case).
The case when the narrator was denied protection by the authorities and handed back to her abuser to keep abusing her is just one example of the general mindset of pseudo-liberals & pseudo-feminists. Another one is the typical reaction of the "liberals" to any attempt to criticize or reform the state of affairs in the East (Muslim-majority counties). People doing so are often labeled "Islamophobic" or "racist", even when they are themselves Muslim or represent an ethnic minority! Western (often white) people feel entitled to tell them what they should and shouldn't say about their own cultures! Do they really believe that only western women deserve rights & progress, while others shouldn't even try to reform their societies? Who are they to tell women of Islamic background that criticizing their own culture is racist?!
Another takeaway is the following: "With no legitimate problems to overcome, they [young Western women] invented problems so they could fulfill their desire to solve them". When there seem to be no real issues for them to solve, they make some up! But there are real problems for them to solve! They just don't want to address some issues out of fear, so they invent some fake ones to look busy and distract themselves & others from their inactivity. This way they look like activists without having to do any real work & without the risk of facing any real, potentially dangerous consequences. Unlike the ones they betray. They celebrate the brave Western feminists of the past, yet ignore contemporary feminists in the East. True feminism & liberalism must be global: we can't fight abusive practices in the West while supporting them in the East.
The author brings up the role of the internet & social media in connecting with other people, getting information and transforming lives. With internet as common as it is today, ignorance is now a choice.
The books reminds us that these ideas of misogyny, homophobia and hate travel across borders. People who move to another country do not magically change their mentality once they cross the border. It is important to not demonize the entire faith, but we should not let our fear of sounding insensitive make us betray Muslim liberals & liberals in the Muslim world. We should not allow them be tortured and abused & their voice to be silenced in the name of political correctness, cultural sensitivity & fear of hurting someone's feelings. Living people should be more important than religious sentiments. Criticism does not equal 'hate'. Pointing out the negative aspects of a system of belief is not "bigotry". Denying someone protection from abuse justified by that belief is bigotry.
Let us come together on the basis of ideas, not identities.
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K.N.
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024
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Pat Connors
5.0 out of 5 stars It is most people think but never dare say
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2024
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Amazing book, couldn’t put it down. Very sad as I have encountered Muslim women who begged me to help them when I was on holiday, hearing their tales before husband arrived! I would urge everyone to buy this book and send to someone in power or has the ear of someone ‘soft power’ these women need the help of all of us.
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Nina R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Spannend und ernüchternd
Reviewed in Germany on January 24, 2024
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Spannend geschrieben sehr ernüchternd wer an einen gemässtigten Islam glaubt glaubt auch an einen gemäßigten Tornado.
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Vinod T
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable
Reviewed in India on November 12, 2023
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The most amazing part of the book for me was to read about the indefatigable spirit of a woman who was told by everything and everyone that she was wrong but still chose to find that light.

I would recommend the book to everyone - borrowing heavily from the foreword, it does not matter who you are. You need to read this now!
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Peter Piluk
5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Important Book That Needs To Be Read By Everyone!
Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2019
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I watched the Bill Maher episode with Ben Affleck and Sam Harris and remember thinking that Mr Affleck had a point and we should be more tolerant of "those cultures". Then Sam Harris made his famous "Islam is the mother of bad ideas" statement. I took this statement as a challenge to affirm that Islam was indeed the "Religion of Peace" like I have heard time and time again. I read the Koran and started paying attention to what was actually going on in the world outside my own concrete encasement. At first I thought that the things I had observed in Islam dominated countries only happened "over there". Sure it was terrible but it would be insensitive of me to apply my Western sensibilities on "those people".

It during this period of my life that I saw Yasmine's first interview with Sam Harris. Her story opened my heart and my mind to the challenges many people face...not just "over there" but right here in what should be a safe place to live a secular life. My concrete
Encasement shattered into a million pieces...I was wrong to sacrifice the lives of countless people all under the guise of tolerance. Then i had an epiphany...I could be supportive of Muslims, the people, while being critical of Islam, the set of ideas. I realized that Sam Harris was right.

Almost immediately my mindset changed and I began to challenge my friends on their views on Islam.

I have faced criticism from many good, decent and well intentioned Liberals and been called names from a racist to Islamophobic and pretty much everything in between. If believing every person on the earth is entitled to live a life free from abuse and being able to choose their own path is predjiced than I will happily wear these insults as a badge of honour.

I often challenge my Liberal friends to stop believing what our MSM feeds them about Islam. I tell them do do 2 things. Firstly, to actually read the Koran and secondly, actually look at what is going on in Muslim majority countries and to put yourself in the places of someone from an Islamic country. What would happen to you if you lived your life exactly as you do here.

This book is so powerful and well written that it is now the third thing I tell my Liberal friends to do. It is easy to dismiss my views with any of the litany of names I have been called numerous times but to dismiss the story of a person who lived to tell this tale in particular is far more difficult.

If I could recommend this book to one group of people, it would be any person who considers themself a Liberal and thinks Ben Afflick might have a point.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in Brazil on October 24, 2019
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Great book. So well written, makes you feel like you are there with her through the moments. Every man and woman from around the world should read it and learn.
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