Hear us out... what if Allah was an aspiring hairdresser who flunked out of beauty school, and rather than dealing with that loss in therapy like a normal god, he spent the next 1,400 years making women cover their hair? We're not saying it's confirmed. We're just saying it explains a lot. Enter Sammy of Haram Doodles, who was told as a child that drawing living beings was sinful — so she threw out all her art supplies and tried to become a better Muslim instead. Oops. So much for that plan.

In this episode, Sammy and Shay get into why "Islamophobia" is actually a word you should stop using, why hijab is and isn't a choice depending on who you're asking, and God's deeply suspicious relationship with women's hair. Is it a fetish? Is he balding? We can't say for sure. What we can say is that Sammy's been hard at work creating resources for Ex-Muslims around the world, so we'll list all those resources down below.

Oh, and please visit FreeBetty.org. Sammy's friend Betty is sitting in a Moroccan prison right now for wearing a t-shirt.

ABOUT SAMMY OF HARAM DOODLESSammy is an ExMuslim atheist, activist and artist behind Haram Doodles, a collection of forbidden (haram) doodles, comics, stories and content created with and for courageous ExMuslims.

Official Site: https://haramdoodles.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/haramdoodles

MORE RESOURCES MENTIONED

Free Betty Lachbar: https://FreeBetty.orgShare your ExMuslim Story: https://exmuslim.me/

LEARN MORE

American Empathy Project: https://americanempathyproject.orgFor more on humanism: https://linktr.ee/americanhumanist

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Erscheinungs­datum: 9.3.2026, 11:00:00