Canadian mother wanted her daughter dead for taking off her hijab.
Forcibly married to a jihadist convict reveals that her own mother wished for her death for removing her Islamic veil.
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In a shocking interview for Good morning, Activist Yasmine Mohammed has exposed the darkest side of religious radicalism: Speaking or acting against certain norms can even lead to your own family wanting you dead..
Yasmine was brought up in a strict Muslim family in Canada. She was forced to wear the hijab from the age of eight. Later, She was forced to marry a member of Al-Qaeda., a man who had been imprisoned for terrorism and who held a radical Islamist ideology.Her life became a hell of submission, control and fear.. Even so, what struck her most was not just her husband's violence, but the absolute complicity of his own mother.
«I wish you were dead»
When she finally decided to flee with her daughter to save her life and give her a different future, her mother's response was: “I wish you were dead.”
This desire for death, expressed not by some random radical but by its own progenitor, reveals an uncomfortable truth: Radical Islamism is not just a problem of armed terrorists or authoritarian religious leaders.. It is an ideology that can take root in homes and turn the most sacred bonds into instruments of submission. Yasmine's mother is not some fanatical stranger. She is a Western woman, born in Egypt, who appears to be fully integrated.
This story is not an isolated case. Mohammed denounces that mMany women trapped in fundamentalist environments cannot escape because they know that, if they do, they will be persecuted, rejected or murdered by their own family. The veil, in this context, is not a choice. It is a symbol of obedience. And removing it is not just disobedience: it is declaring war on an entire system that has been instilled in you since childhood.
Yasmine escaped. She is now an activist.
Yasmine managed to escape.«I was not only escaping from my husband and his henchmen, but also from my mother.«, said Mohammed, and described the period as «Incredibly tumultuous, dreadful and terrifying«Today she is an activist for the rights of women oppressed by Islamism. But she does not forget that her freedom was bought at the cost of the most painful rupture of all: knowing that her mother would have preferred to see her dead rather than unveiled, free and alive.
Now, Yasmine Mohamed heads the charity Free Hearts Free Minds, which supports LGBTQ communities and unconventional thinkers in Muslim countries.
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