Daily Archives: May 16, 2018

In Conversation with Sara Al Iraqiya on Leaving Islam, Global Affairs, and Society

by | May 16, 2018

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Sara Al Iraqiya is a USA-based 2nd generation Iraqi-American social scientist, writer, and activist. Raised under Sunni Islam and a survivor of attempted radicalization in American mosques and centers — she has both lived experience as well as academic experience with Islam. By age 20, after gaining the freedom to live autonomously… Read more »

Activism for Noura Hussein Hammad

by | May 16, 2018

  By Scott Douglas Jacobsen A 19-year-old, Noura Hussein Hammad, from Sudan has been sentenced to death for the killing of a man. Hammad killed the man in self-defense while being raped. The context is a forced marriage while a child/teenager and so forced child marriage, marital rape while being held down by several men, and… Read more »