One of the questions I always get asked during a live talk is, "Why aren't more Muslims speaking out?"

In this short podcast, I pull from my own experience on factors that hold Muslims back from being more expressive and open about their secular beliefs.

"We're going to have a hard time speaking out if we've never been taught to speak out, if we've never been rewarded for it...if every time we've speak out, we've been punished for it.

Everything is regulated and deeply controlled. When you have an entire population of people told how to think, what to believe, it's going to be really difficult for those Muslims to grow up and be able to express themselves."

The podcast moves through some of what I had to go through -- and what I forced myself to go through -- in order to move into reform.

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