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A friend was telling me about her mother, on her deathbed,finally accepting a cigarette from her sister: Had I known my life would have ended like this, I would have said yes a lot sooner. And I’d have said no too. No to marrying him. No to being his slave. No to wasting my life.
As she was telling me she was crying and I was crying. Both of us were in miserable marriages before we had the irrational and dangerous bravery to leave. We know how she was feeling. We know how close we were to feeling the same way on our deathbeds.
Thankfully we both got out and we are both married to wonderful men today who adore us unconditionally. We walked through raging fires to get here. But we can’t rest. We are haunted by those who never made it. She’ll be joining me soon on #ForgottenFeminists 🤍
It’s funny how I escaped from the terrorist I was forced to marry, with only my baby daughter and a high school education, then my mother threatened to kill me, escaped her too, and survived to tell the tale-
Yet ppl think lobbing the word ‘Islamophobia’ will stop me
#LetUsTalk
Yet ppl think lobbing the word ‘Islamophobia’ will stop me
#LetUsTalk
Every single time I read about a man who beheaded his wife, a father who beheaded his daughter, a brother who killed his sister, chopped her up and buried her in the backyard-I see my face in hers. I know I could have been her. I know I survived for a reason. I will never stop.
@Saharathefree1 grew up in a refugee camp, barely knew her parents, endured FGM, escaped in the middle of the night, worked in whatever jobs she could get her hands on, came to the US illiterate, and now she’s an educator.
You think calling her names will stop her?
#LetUsTalk
You think calling her names will stop her?
#LetUsTalk
In Canada I was forced in hijab at 9, niqab at 19. I was disowned & threatened w death because I chose what to wear on my body. In the West I’m told sharing my story will cause Islamophobia. I’m a woman from Mid East and I’m scared of Islamic ideology. Let us talk. #FreeFromHijab 
I don’t know if I’m more angry, sad, or scared of the way the West is not only failing women like me, but failing themselves.
Watch #ForgottenFeminists to listen and learn from brave women who have not only fought against the mullahs in Muslim majority countries, but against the useful idiots in the west as well: yasminemohammed.com/forgottenfemin…
