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Seyran AteÅ is a singular figure: a human rights lawyer, founder and imam of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque in Berlin, where men and women pray together, headscarves are not mandatory and members of the LGBTQ community are welcome. She has been under police protection since 2006, and the film opens with her reading out some of the hundreds of threats she receives both from Muslim fundamentalists and European right-wingers.
In the biographical part of the film, AteÅ, lying on the grass in the sun, relates how she grew up in a poor family in Istanbul and arrived in Germany when she was six. When she got to her teenage years, the contrast between her patriarchal parentsâ treatment of her and her brothers, and the way German girls were free to go wherever they wanted while she was called a whore for wanting to go out, is what inspired her to pursue the path that led her to where she is today. Her mother and sister also ap
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Seyran AteÅ is a singular figure: a human rights lawyer, founder and imam of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque in Berlin, where men and women pray together, headscarves are not mandatory and members of the LGBTQ community are welcome. She has been under police protection since 2006, and the film opens with her reading out some of the hundreds of threats she receives both from Muslim fundamentalists and European right-wingers.
In the biographical part of the film, AteÅ, lying on the grass in the sun, relates how she grew up in a poor family in Istanbul and arrived in Germany when she was six. When she got to her teenage years, the contrast between her patriarchal parentsâ treatment of her and her brothers, and the way German girls were free to go wherever they wanted while she was called a whore for wanting to go out, is what inspired her to pursue the path that led her to where she is today. Her mother and sister also ap