Sarah Haider

My name is Sarah Hayter. I am a former activist turned podcaster turned former podcaster.

My name is Sarah Hayter. I am a former activist turned podcaster turned former podcaster.

My name is Sarah Hayter. I am a former activist turned podcaster turned former podcaster.

I was born a Muslim. I was raised a Muslim, I should say, in the United States for the most part, but I was born in Pakistan. And I decided that religion was not for me. It stopped making sense in a lot of important ways. It's not a terribly interesting deconversion story, if you're familiar with that at all.

I was born a Muslim. I was raised a Muslim, I should say, in the United States for the most part, but I was born in Pakistan. And I decided that religion was not for me. It stopped making sense in a lot of important ways. It's not a terribly interesting deconversion story, if you're familiar with that at all.

I was born a Muslim. I was raised a Muslim, I should say, in the United States for the most part, but I was born in Pakistan. And I decided that religion was not for me. It stopped making sense in a lot of important ways. It's not a terribly interesting deconversion story, if you're familiar with that at all.

But there's a whole genre of people leaving religion for, you know, kind of standard reasons like this. I was reading the Quran and this such and such thing didn't make sense or there was a contradiction there. A similar set of things happened to me. And I left the religion when I was a teenager.

But there's a whole genre of people leaving religion for, you know, kind of standard reasons like this. I was reading the Quran and this such and such thing didn't make sense or there was a contradiction there. A similar set of things happened to me. And I left the religion when I was a teenager.

But there's a whole genre of people leaving religion for, you know, kind of standard reasons like this. I was reading the Quran and this such and such thing didn't make sense or there was a contradiction there. A similar set of things happened to me. And I left the religion when I was a teenager.

I was fairly lucky in that my parents are liberal for Muslims, which is to say they're pretty conservative as far as what Western Christians understand to be the spectrum of religiosity. But Relative to other Muslims, I think they were fairly liberal.

I was fairly lucky in that my parents are liberal for Muslims, which is to say they're pretty conservative as far as what Western Christians understand to be the spectrum of religiosity. But Relative to other Muslims, I think they were fairly liberal.

I was fairly lucky in that my parents are liberal for Muslims, which is to say they're pretty conservative as far as what Western Christians understand to be the spectrum of religiosity. But Relative to other Muslims, I think they were fairly liberal.

So I was allowed to leave unmolested, save for some very interesting conversations with my parents, some of them getting to be quite heavy at times, and some tears from my mom here and there. But as I grew a little bit older, I started to meet other ex-Muslims.

So I was allowed to leave unmolested, save for some very interesting conversations with my parents, some of them getting to be quite heavy at times, and some tears from my mom here and there. But as I grew a little bit older, I started to meet other ex-Muslims.

So I was allowed to leave unmolested, save for some very interesting conversations with my parents, some of them getting to be quite heavy at times, and some tears from my mom here and there. But as I grew a little bit older, I started to meet other ex-Muslims.

I realized how my experience was actually different than what many other Muslims, even in America, experience when they start questioning religion or leaving religion. And so I found myself in this place where I felt like, okay, I can really do something here.

I realized how my experience was actually different than what many other Muslims, even in America, experience when they start questioning religion or leaving religion. And so I found myself in this place where I felt like, okay, I can really do something here.

I realized how my experience was actually different than what many other Muslims, even in America, experience when they start questioning religion or leaving religion. And so I found myself in this place where I felt like, okay, I can really do something here.

I can help a group of people whose struggles I understand intimately, but I am lucky enough not to face them with the same kind of severity as they do.

I can help a group of people whose struggles I understand intimately, but I am lucky enough not to face them with the same kind of severity as they do.