ÉP 8: Gender Equality & LGBTQ+ Rights in Islam - With Seyran Ates - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

In this episode of Jins Podcast, I am very happy to have one of the most inspirational human beings I have encountered lately, another female imam who fights for women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights in Islam, her name is Seyran Ates. Seyran ...See moreIn this episode of Jins Podcast, I am very happy to have one of the most inspirational human beings I have encountered lately, another female imam who fights for women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights in Islam, her name is Seyran Ates. Seyran was born in Istanbul, Turkey, of a Turkish mother and a Kurdish father. She moved to West Berlin at the age of 6 with her traditionalist family. She left home when she was 17 years old to avoid an arranged marriage and she fled with her German boyfriend. She then became a lawyer and started fighting for women's rights ; she basically devoted herself her whole life to helping Turkish-background women achieve their rights in Germany. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2005. She opened the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, located in a church, leading the way as a woman imam. It is the only liberal mosque in Germany today. Obviously, she has received death threats and survived an attack. Yet, she keeps on fighting for Muslim women's rights and Muslim LGBTQIA+ rights, relentlessly.See less