Rabia Kazan

Rabia Kazan (born 25 June 1976) is a Turkish author and women's rights activist of Persian ancestry. She is the president of the Middle Eastern Women's Coalition (MEWC) and was formerly on the board of directors in the National Diversity Coalition for Trump (NDC TRUMP). Kazan is a former Muslim and a critic of Islam, known for her the bestselling book The Angels of Tehran about the legal prostitution system in Iran.

Rabia Kazan
Born
Rabia Kazan

(1976-06-25) 25 June 1976
Malatya, Turkey
NationalityPersian & Turkish
OccupationPresident of Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition, best-selling author, activist against child marriages
Years active1996–present
Websitemiddleeasternwomenscoalition.com

Career

Kazan started her journalism career in 1996 as a TV correspondent working on the show Istanbul Documentary on the Turkish channel Flash TV. She then became a columnist for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) affiliated with the Turkish newspaper Ortadoğu where she worked for six years. She became widely-known in Turkey for conducting a interview with Mehmet Ali Ağca while working at Ortadoğu as an investigative journalist. She also founded news magazine Haber Revizyon in İstanbul.

In 2007, Kazan went to Iran undercover, where she witnessed child marriages, women trafficking and wedleases. She discovered a legal prostitution system within the republic of Iran. She reported child marriages, and interviewed approximately 200 women. When Kazan returned to her country she published her book Tahran Melekleri (Legal Prostitution) (The Angels of Tehran), which was about Nikah mut‘ah, a temporary Muslim marriage. Her book became the bestseller in Turkey and was the first book about temporary marriage Shia Islamic Prostution. After her work and publication of her books she received multiple death threats.

She visited many Middle Eastern countries in dedication to her work to save women across the Middle Eastern from Sharia law. She did her work by recording information taken from the women she met and work with.

In 2008, Kazan married Giacinto Licursi, an Italian lawyer and politician, and later moved to Rome. She actively promoted Secularism in Islam, prevention of child marriages and woman trafficking on different platforms including Italian TV channels in Italy.

Kazan moved to the US in 2010 and worked for World Federation of United Nations Associations at the United Nations for two years.

She made a decision to removed her hijab in 2012, which she was forced to wear from age seven, and started working as a writer and women's rights activist at the International Civil Liberties Alliance (ICLA).

Kazan launched a global campaign in 2014 named This Is Not My Allah against Islamic Terrorism with French political analyst Alain Wagner in New York City. The aim of the campaign is to voice out and break the silence of Muslims who feared speaking out against radical Islam.

In 2015, Kazan endorsed Donald Trump because of his statements about radical Islam. In 2016, she joined the National Diversity Coalition for Trump (NDC TRUMP) as an executive. In 2016, Kazan gave an interview to CNN News, "Islamic Regime hates America," in which she spoke about her opinion and how she believes that the way Trump is handling the issue is correct and how moderate Muslims need to stand up against radical Islam. In 2018 she became a president of the Middle Eastern Women's Coalition, a pro-Trump group Kazan formed.[1] Kazan later denounced many of her pro-Trump colleagues, as she believed they are using her status for financial gain as a former Muslim to make Trump's comments on Islam less incendiary.[1]

See also

References
  1. Sollenberger, Roger; O'Neill, Kathleen; Jamieson, Amber (5 February 2020). "She Shunned Islam And Was Embraced By Trump World. Now, She's Turned Against Them". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

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