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Turki Al-Hamad, Hamza Kashgari  and  Raef Badawi… These are just a few names of people, most of us have probably never heard of. Not enough to prompt an immediate, heightened emotional response anywhere near comparable to what uttering the name Phil Robertson would anyhow. Allow me to steal the unadulterated spot light …

My honor had been assassinated… Graduating medical school and becoming an M.D meant nothing to me anymore, it carried no weight. It also meant nothing to my family. My life had become a monotonous saga that was more annoying than anything. Throughout those months of isolated confusion, long days of subjugation …

 Violated 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 It was late evening by the time we arrived home. The religious elder blasted me with some verbal warnings as I stepped out of the car. He then told my father to closely monitor my activity from now on as our house was …

(Violated1, Two , Three and Four) I don’t know exactly how long I was imprisoned for. The days passed by so sluggishly that I could say it was months but I cannot certify the exact amount of time that was stolen from me. Everything is a haze now and at …

(Violated 1, 2 and 3) Though I spent a lot of time asleep in that cell, the quality of sleep I was getting was that of a person who had no idea or agency over her ultimate fate. I slept in fear and had dreams of death, only to wake …

(Violated1 and Violated2)   The car stopped in front of the large prison gates and one of the men stepped out to speak to some of the guards. He then came back into the car and as the gates slowly opened, the GMC drove in and finally came to a …

Violated part 1 is here At that point my life seemed trivial…right then and there I became a nothing. I was incredibly overwhelmed with fear for my life and safety during this lengthy car ride with these animals that my mental self detached from my physical one. Suddenly I turned …

 As I promised in earlier posts, here is one of the many events that I lived through and one which has helped shape me into the woman I am today. This is the first of 7 posts I have written about in my personal blog under the Violated chapter title. …

  On the 5th day of December 2013 Arabic CNN posted this news article  about a young female Saudi University student who allegedly attacked her female Professor after finding out that her husband had taken on the professor as a second wife. The picture shows a female in a public arena kneeling …

A question that keeps getting tossed at me is (So when did you decide to leave Islam?) My usual response is “I am one of the few cases in which indoctrination has miserably failed” and here is when the eye brows customarily get raised. For one to actively decide to …