Yasmine Mohammed Warns Against Islamic Radicalism After Forced Marriage to 1 Al-Qaeda Member
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 6
Yasmine Mohammed Warns Against Islamic Radicalism After Forced Marriage to 1 Al-Qaeda Member
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 6
Summary
Yasmine Mohammed said surviving a forced marriage to Egyptian militant Essam Marzouk pushed her to publicly campaign against Islamic radicalism through the Clarity Coalition and her memoir "Unveiled."
Mohammed described enduring beatings and rape in the marriage, then fleeing after Marzouk discussed taking their daughter to Egypt for female genital mutilation.
Born into a secular Muslim family in Canada, she said her mother's radicalization helped drive the abusive marriage and used religious arguments to justify the abuse.
Mohammed also argued radical ideology is spreading on U.S. campuses, pointing to heavy Qatari funding at Ivy League universities as a channel for that influence.