Secular Jihadists For A Muslim Enlightenment

Watch the video version of this conversation (for patrons): https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-engage-21859143  Abdullah Sameer is an increasingly popular and influential atheist writer and YouTuber who was once a very religious Muslim. He preached Islam for fifteen years and founded popular Islamic websites like Light Upon Light and the now defunct VerseByVerseQuran. In 2016, he announced that he left Islam in a controversial video that now has over a million views. In this episode we discuss his background—his father was Ismaili and his mother Sunni—and his story of embracing religion fully only to leave it fully. We talk about his remarkable talent of engaging all kinds of people in constructive dialogue, be they Muslims, ex-Muslims or others. How can we strike that balance between honesty and compassion? We talk about that too—and more. Don't miss this! Listen to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or your favourite podcast app: http://secularjihadists.com    The Secular Jihadists has been made possible t