31 - Sohail Ahmad - Ahmadis: Islam’s Peaceful, Persecuted, Patriarchal Proselytisers

24:11 Should we continue to criticise Islam in the age of Trump or is white nationalism and, in India, Hindutva now a greater threat?
31:13 The close-knit Ahmadi community & the pressures it brings. Sexual segregation. Rules about marriage. Double standards for Ahmadi women.
36:31 Homosexuality in Ahmaddiyat
38:24 Proselytisation
39:48 Raising children within a religion
41:42 Ahmadis in the Western media: contradictions and hypocrises
49:12 Should we respect religion?
51:07 Our overemphasis on terrorism
53:30 Why Ahmadi teachings are non-violent
56:01 Mediated readings of the Quran
1:02:19 Sohail’s experiences of leaving the faith: why he became an activist
1:11:04 Philosophy communities, which might replace religious ones
1:24:17 Adultery versus polyamory

Sohail’s video “Why I am leaving Islam and Ahmadiyyat” can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-jPHr0LrYY

Please check the extensive shownotes to that video for links to his written and video work.

His interview with the Secular Jihadists can be found here:
https://secularjihadists.libsyn.com/ep101-leaving-ahmadiyya-islam-with-reason-on-faith

For more on the Ex-Muslims of North America:
https://exmuslims.org/

For more on Muslimish, see:
https://www.muslimish.org/

You can follow Sohail on Twitter @ReasonOnFaith

Other references

Eiynah “Nice Mangos” on criticising Islam in the age of Trump:
https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/the-complexity-of-critiquing-islam-under-trump

Douglas Murray, “Here we go again, but this time, je suis Berlin”:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/go-time-je-suis-berlin/

Sohail’s response to this article:
https://reasononfaith.org/commenting-on-douglas-murrays-article-post/

See also Qasim Rashid (@QuasimRashid, formerly @MuslimIQ);
Alishba Zarmeen (@SecularlyYours)

Ali Amjad Rizvi, The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason (2016)

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014)

The episode of this podcast in which we discuss the theory that early humans were polyamorous is Episode 14 with Cody Moser and William Buckner:
https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/14-william-buckner-and-cody-moser