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16 Yr Old Forced By Her Parents to Marry Uncle Jul 14, 2025

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Nazreen Bibi was born and raised in the UK in a Mirpuri Sunni Muslim household. During her chiIdhood she was sent off to learn the verbatim account of the Quran, which included teachers who threat*ned v*olence and aggression using kitchen utensils and mullahs based in a semi. Nazreen’s parents insisted on putting a headscarf on her, and during her secondary school years she would take the scarf off during school hours and put it back on when school finished.

On her 16th birthday she had hopes of completing A levels and going to university however her parents had other plans. Instead they travelled abroad to Pakistan, and Nazreen was married to her mother’s cousin (her uncle), someone she knew nothing about. She recalls asking her mother if she could say no and her answer was “no, your grandad gave his word” and that was that. Soon after her marriage, her mother told her that she was to do whatever her husband wanted and that if she refused s*x the devil would curse her all night.

Nazreen soon became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter at age 17. The following 12 years, Nazreen spent fighting for freedom, freedom to work, freedom to have phone and freedom to wear what she wanted to wear. Fueled with anger at the end of her twelve-year marriage, she could see how religion and culture shaped her parents’ choices and world view, and how the teachings of Islam demanded the total subjugation of women. Nazreen’s parents stopped talking to her after her divorce and so she rebuilt her life as a single parent. Her experience only confirmed what she had now grown to accept in that Islam was designed by men for men. Divorced women were deemed as used goods, a women’s identity and personhood reduced to her reproductive parts and womb.

Since her divorce she’s been actively engaged in local politics, completed her degree and runs her own business. Now an exMuslim, Nazreen recently has come out as an atheist, speaking out against the generational religious ab*se

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Why the Mormon Church Denied (then Admitted) the Mishandling of SA of a 3 Year Old Jul 11, 2025

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The father of a 13 year old CSA perpetrator confessed to their Mormon Bishop about his son’s transgressions, the multiple counts of CSA. Not only were their parents not notified, the multiple counts were not reported to the authorities, as mandated by California law. The boy was still allowed to go to church and other church activities, where other youth would knowingly be present. Some of the CSA was committed during these church activities, which could’ve been prevented. Jared and Ashley Jones join us to discuss the mishandling of the perpetrator and how the church and the community mistreated them after speaking up about the SA of their 3 year old daughter.

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Catch Jared and Ashley's Mormon Stories interviews:

Jared and Ashley Jones Pt. 1 | Ep. 1767

Confronting the Mormon Church - Jared and Ashley Jones Pt. 2 | Ep 1768

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How the Mormon Church Protected Abusive Bishop (Lawyer Explains) ft. Kolby Reddish Jul 11, 2025

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Joined by attorney Kolby Reddish, we discuss the case of Chelsea Goodrich, a former Mormon woman who endured years of CSA by her bishop father. In this video we will break down how the Mormon church ultimately ended up protecting the perpetrator, rather than helping Chelsea in court.

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Watch our interviews with Chelsea here:

pt 1: https://youtu.be/4Og2KRQpjqU?si=dq3OUpsyPsDVm_Ct

pt 2: https://youtu.be/XNEHgeat3iQ?si=FMUmt8DwfQyKy_q_

Check out our "Mormonism on Trial" interviews with Kolby:

Mormon Church SUED for Not Reporting Unspeakable Confessions (the Verdict)

Mormonism On Trial: Ex-Mormon Lawyer Challenges Truth Claims

How a Mormon Lawyer Lost His Faith Ft. Kolby Reddish

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Mormon Church Punished & Silenced Lifelong Member For Exposing LDS Sex Offender Jul 11, 2025

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Social worker, Michael Benjamin, learned that a member of the LDS church, of which he also belonged, had put a registered s*x offender into a position of power. Upon confronting leadership, he was silenced and punished. Sadly, the perpetrator reoffended with a youth from their ward. He is now serving time in prison for it. Join us to hear directly from Michael about this story.

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When Silence is Safer in Mormonism Jul 10, 2025

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Church is meant to be a place of comfort, solace and peace. However, when a church controls their members using fear and manipulation, even when someone didn't do anything wrong, such as a survivor of SA, it creates extreme issues of safety for that person. Today we speak with Kris Hillberg who was given a disciplinary council and disfellowshipped from the LDS faith for a brutal attack when she was only 18 years old. There is so much to discuss when it comes to feeling safe to report, when there is truly no support system for what the LDS church would consider "sins".

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Check out her Podcast called "I F*cking Knew"

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5 Mishandled SA Cases the Mormon Church Doesn’t Want You to Know About Jul 10, 2025

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Daily Mail article written by Miles Dilworth, exposes 5 cases of SA that were grossly mishandled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In doing so, it clearly presents a pattern that illustrates the LDS church cares more about its reputation and its image than it does its members' safety and wellbeing.

We will discuss what the article presents about each case and our thoughts as it pertains to cults and mind control manipulation.

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Link to article pinned in the youtube comments.

Live with Kolby Reddish discussing in depth the Arizona case mentioned

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Mormon Church SUED for Not Reporting Unspeakable Confessions (the Verdict) ft. Kolby Reddish Jul 10, 2025

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Going in depth with former guest and current lawyer Kolby Reddish to further discuss and understand how the LDS church got away with protecting a C S A offender for years.

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Check out our interviews with Kolby:

Mormonism On Trial: Ex-Mormon Lawyer Challenges Truth Claims

How a Mormon Lawyer Lost His Faith Ft. Kolby Reddish

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Blood Atonement: The Fatal Occult Ritual of Early Mormonism Jul 09, 2025

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Deep in the archives of Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) history, you will find the dark stain of blood atonement. Rather than the sacrifice of Jesus being enough, some sins were too great and would have to be paid for by your own m*rder to gain salvation in the afterlife. Led by a history academic, Julia with @analyzingmormonism on instagram, we go through the ways in which early LDS leaders taught and practiced blood atonement. Also covered, are the ways current fundamentalist leaders still implement the horrific practice.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:02 Where and from whom Julia finds this information about Mormonism

00:06:21 Who could be blood atoned? What does it mean?

00:09:53 what is blood atonement

00:10:53 When the practice of blood atonement began and why bloodshed was required

00:11:27 Quotes from Joseph Smith Jr. referencing blood atonement

00:11:53 JOSEPH SMITH QUOTE

00:14:11 Sidney Rigdon taught about Blood Atonement

00:14:45 Temple ceremony blood atonement language & mimicking

00:17:05 Shelise found out about the secret gru*some temple penalty at 17

00:23:09 Brigham Young on B.O. equating baptism

00:24:53 Brigham Young on how to handle a cheating wife....

00:28:39 How the Journal of Discourses created Utah culture

00:34:18 Victims of the Blood Atonement as listed in the book Wife No. 19

00:37:28 CW: Graphic race driven m*rder

00:38:34 The Oath of Vengeance in the temple ceremony

00:40:54 Additional names of victims

00:42:17 1889 manifesto addressing blood atonement

00:44:48 What the church today says about blood atonement

00:46:51 Was Warren Jeffs from the FLDS building a B.O. room in the temple?

00:51:05 Blood atonement in the LeBaron sect

00:54:18 Why what the Mormon church acknowledges about blood atonement is not enough

00:57:16 The Book of Mormon as a historical document vs a book of tales

01:00:01 Linda, listen

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I Was Sold by My Mother to an Elite Pedophile Network at 6 Jul 08, 2025

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Anneke Lucas was born in Belgium where, at the age of 6, she was sold by her mother to a s*x traff*cking p*dophile network for European elites. Her family’s cleaning lady ab*sed and gro*med her before colluding with a relative to pimp her out to the exclusive club for dr*g-fueled orgies. She would continue to be ab*sed and tortur*d as a s*x slave for years. She had never gone to police with her claims because she was scared into silence after watching kids getting k*lled by members as a "warning" to others.

Anneke Lucas survived some of the worst atrocities known to humankind before the age of 12. After living in London, Paris and New York as a young adult, she moved to Los Angeles where she began therapy, yoga and meditation. Today, she is the founder and Executive Director of Liberation Prison Yoga, a non-profit organization based in New York. Now an advocate for other survivors, Anneke openly speaks about her experience. A story that truly emphasizes the power of hope, we dive into Anneke’s story, and healing journey.

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Satanic Panic Accusations: Chinese Mormon Convert Loses Children for 25 Years (daughter explains) Jul 07, 2025

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As a follow up to her incredible interview, we are joined today again by Lydia Knight, who grew up in a pioneer stock Mormon (LDS) family, but layered on top of that was a twisted, fabricated reality that her father was actually the leader of a Satanic cult who had violently abused her as a baby.

Lydia’s mother said she had received revelations of these horr*fic things and Lydia’s grandmother capitalized on this by gaining love and adoration from the LDS church members by appearing as a savior to the ab*sed children. Kidnapped from Lydia’s father by her mother at 2 years old, she was told he was always searching for her so he could continue his Satanic practices.

Not only was Lydia dealing with these imposed traumas, she was told if she ever broke the rules of Mormonism or told someone about her past, her whole family would be tracked down by the Satanists and killed. Fear and terror ruled her life until she finally decided to look for the evidence. What she found crumbled her entire reality and she began the search to reconnect with her father.

Today we dive deeper into her father's perspective.

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