The Ansari Podcast

E30: "I was Turned Off By Islam | I Thought it was Backwards." So What Changed?? w. Imam Ahmad Deeb


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The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Imam Ahmed Deeb discuss Imam Ahmad's life growing up in the United States as a first generation Muslim, they discuss the cognitive dissonance felt when you're a Muslim living in America. They discuss the philosophical and theological questions that troubled Imam Ahmad growing up and how he dealt with them on a personal level. They discuss why the Imam ultimately chose Islam and was convinced by it, and why he decided to completely devote his life to Islam rather than go into medicine as he originally had planned. They discuss the false myth that religion is the cause of war, they discuss having to take a hard look at themselves and see their issues and just how much they hated their own identities, specifically Islam. They discuss what makes Islam more unique than other religions and whether they're all the same like people may believe. They talk about whether or not there is sexual harassment within the Muslim community. They discuss the lack of resources and systems put in place for Muslim women or men to speak to someone who will actually listen and take sexual harassment cases seriously. They speak about the rising issue of call out culture on these sensitive matters, but recognize that they are a cause of the lack of concern for sexual harassment within the Muslim community in the first place. Imam Ahmad Deeb highlights that we must come together to end sexual harassment rather than standing on 2 sides of an argument and budding heads with one another, while both sides of Muslims clearly don't want sexual harassment within their world and community.

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