{"id":195,"date":"2020-07-20T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdullahsameer.com\/podcast\/?p=195"},"modified":"2021-07-12T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T21:04:52","slug":"046-interview-with-sadia-hameed-on-identity-politics-the-regressive-left-exmuslim-label-new-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/046-interview-with-sadia-hameed-on-identity-politics-the-regressive-left-exmuslim-label-new-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"046 &#8211; Interview with Sadia Hameed on Identity Politics, The Regressive Left, Exmuslim Label, New Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interview with Sadia Hameed on Identity Politics, The Regressive Left, Exmuslim Label, New Atheism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The YouTube version of this podcast can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BeUIxsBaP4M\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/BeUIxsBaP4M<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the timestamps for this podcast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0:00 Introductions<br>0:52 Questioning Islam and leaving for the first time.<br>5:48 Eating pork for the first time. Is the ban on pork indoctrination or cultural conditioning?<br>11:18 Going back to Islam for marriage purposes.<br>15:40 Leaving Islam the second time after researching the life of a Muslim woman and her role as a &#8220;good Muslim wife&#8221;.<br>18:10 Problems with the wife-beating verse<br>23:03 The Gloucestershire sisters organization and their work.<br>29:19 Breaking off the engagement and going to University<br>33:50 Abdullah&#8217;s experience of leaving Islam.<br>38:25How family dynamics complicate the journey of questioning and leaving Islam.<br>38:20 Sadia&#8217;s anecdote on discussing the reformation of Islam.<br>39:50 Is reporting family members just intimidation or intended to actually have family members punished?<br>44:56 Parallels between leaving fundamentalist Christianity and leaving Islam.<br>47:53 No outsiders program and the protests surrounding it<br>53:13 Religious morality VS Secular morality.<br>56:18 Subjective interpretation of the Quran and problems associated with this kind of interpretation.<br>58:49 Toxicity of the antagonism between Islam and &#8220;kafars&#8217; principles (science, the west and all other non-muslims)<br>1:06:10 The importance of challenging harmful ideas and ideologies wherever they pop up.<br>1:08:12 Break and appreciating channel supporters.<br>1:09:31 A critique of issues in the ex-Muslims community (Discussing tattoos and community policing among ex-Muslims)<br>1:16:25 Importance of criticizing people from the ex-Muslim community, free speech, and cancel culture.<br>1:24:29 Appealing to purity (Not being Muslim enough or ex-Muslim enough)<br>1:27:00 Internet feuds and edgy activism.<br>1:29:40 Conditioning support on political beliefs.<br>1:31:35 Short break, Sadia&#8217;s social media details.<br>1:32:48 A discussion on the ex-Muslim label and how it is impacting the movement.<br>1:45:05 Sadia&#8217;s final remarks<br>1:45:27 Abdullah&#8217;s final remarks<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_931\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-195-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3\">http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=195-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"046-Interview_with_Sadia_Hameed_on_Identity_Politics_The_Regressive_Left_Exmuslim_Label_New_Atheism.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/list\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Sadia Hameed on Identity Politics, The Regressive Left, Exmuslim Label, New Atheism The YouTube version of this podcast can be found here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/BeUIxsBaP4M Here are the timestamps for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}